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Plant at Oak Ridge that separated uranium for the first atomic bomb.

Y-12 plant

1943

Y-12 plant. Plant at Oak Ridge that separated uranium for the first atomic bomb.

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Pictures, from Wikimedia Commons: Y-12 plant, Department of Energy Oak Ridge, Public domain; Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Brian Stansberry, CC BY 3.0; Manhattan Project, Jack W. Aeby, July 16, 1945, Civilian worker at Los Alamos laboratory, working under the a, Public domain.