Department of Energy Oak Ridge, Public domain
Organization
Y-12 plant
Plant at Oak Ridge that separated uranium for the first atomic bomb.
- Dates
- 1943
- Wikidata
- Q2061309
Connections 2
part of
- Manhattan Project Primary record 1
located in
- Oak Ridge, Tennessee Primary record 2
Timeline 1 date
- 1943 Y-12 plant
Proof 2 sources
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Manhattan Project: Oak Ridge, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of History and Heritage Resources (OSTI OpenNet).
Primary record
the electromagnetic facility borrowed 14,700 tons of silver borrowed from the U.S. Treasury for use in the electromagnets in place of copper that was not available due to war demands.
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The Calutron Girls, U.S. National Archives, Prologue blog, 19 Jul 2023.
Primary record
The Y-12 plant contained 1,152 calutrons in total.
Page history 1 change
- Add the stories of the bomb and the crash of 20087f68c15
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