Y|12 Electromagnetic Separation Plant
History | Y-12 National Security Complex
... Electromagnetic Separation Plant. The plant's job was to make enough enriched uranium for a new kind of bomb, an atomic bomb. In a short time Bear Creek ...
Y-12 Electromagnetic Separation Plant - OSTI.GOV
The S-1 Executive Committee meeting at Bohemian Grove on September 13 and 14 agreed to construct a large-scale electromagnetic plant at Oak Ridge that would ...
Y-12 National Security Complex - Wikipedia
... Y-12, in a US government photo by Ed Westcott. Y-12 is the World War II code name for the electromagnetic isotope separation plant producing enriched ...
The Y-12 Plant - Nuclear Museum - Atomic Heritage Foundation
Ranger Home > Oak Ridge > The Y-12 Plant. Electromagnetic Separation. Alpha & Beta Calutrons. Calutron Girls.
Y-12 National Security Complex (U.S. National Park Service)
The construction of the Y-12 Plant was founded on the need for a facility that could perform electromagnetic isotope separation. Developed by ...
Y-12 Plant - Worker Health Protection Program
The Y-12 Plant had five major responsibilities: Development of the electromagnetic separation process for uranium; Production of nuclear weapon components ...
Y-12 Plant - Nuclear Museum - Atomic Heritage Foundation
The Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge used the electromagnetic separation method, developed by Ernest Lawrence at University of California-Berkeley, to separate uranium ...
Highlights of Y-12's History - Y-12 National Security Complex
... Electromagnetic Separation Plant (Y‑12) in East Tennessee. December — Specific site selected. 1943, February 1 — Ground broken for Y‑12. February 18 — First ...
Y-12 Plant | Nuclear Care Partners
Within Oak Ridge, the electromagnetic isotope separation facility codenamed Y-12, a complex comprising 270 buildings, housed the operation ...
Oak Ridge: Y-12 Pilot Plant (Building 9731) Panoramic Tour
Building 9731, or the Pilot Plant, was the first building constructed at the top-secret Y-12 Electromagnetic Separation Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Electromagnetic Separation - Manhattan Project - OSTI.GOV
Huge amounts of material had to be obtained (38 million board feet of lumber, for instance) for the Y-12 plant, and the magnets needed so much copper for ...
Y-12 Specific Facility Descriptions for Tour Agenda
uranium metal at Y-12 and the earliest nuclear weapons production facility at Y-12. ... Manhattan Project era Y-12 Electromagnetic Separation Plant. It has seen ...
The Y-12 Electromagnetic Plant: Final Decisions - Atomic Archive
The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb. Part IV: The Manhattan Engineer District in Operation. The Y-12 Electromagnetic Plant: Final Decisions. Although ...
File:Alpha 1 racetrack, Uranium 235 electromagnetic separation ...
English: Large electromagnet called "Alpha 1 racetrack" used to separate the isotope uranium-235 from uranium-238 in natural uranium at the Y-12 plant in ...
Y-12 electromagnetic separation process wins approval
Conant also remembered that he had learned that the entire full-scale gaseous diffusion plant would have to be completed before enough Uranium 235 could be ...
05 - Electromagnetic Separation (CALUTRON) and Thermal Diffusion.
At the Oak Ridge Y-12 plant, the separators were referred to as calutrons because development work on these separators were carried out using cyclotrons at the ...
Y-12: Oak Ridge treasure — national resource/A look back at Union ...
December 1946 — The electromagnetic separation facility at Y-12 was shut down. December 1947 — Barrier plant and uranium hexafluoride feed ...
Oak Ridge Reservation: Y-12 Mercury Task Force Files: Introduction
... separated at the Oak Ridge pilot plant. The Y-12 facility produced enriched uranium-235 by electromagnetic separation; and the last production plant, K-25 ...
... Y-12 Electromagnetic Separation Plant in Oak Ridge, TN. Part of the Manhattan Project, the purpose of this plant was to produce enriched ...
Manhattan Project Resources | Y-12 National Security Complex
Building 9731 was the first building completed at Y-12 and was the "Pilot Plant" for the Calutron electromagnetic separation of uranium.