Oak Ridge, National Laboratory

Amerikansk by i delstaten Tennessee, hvor Manhattan projektets US Army Corps of Engineers. Manhattan District; Oak Ridge, etablerede tre forskellige anlæg til produktion af beriget uran, dengang kaldet Clinton Engineer Works, i 1943. Nu del af USAs aktuelle atomvåbenindustrielle kompleks under Det amerikanske energiministerium.
Frem til og med 1964 blev al beriget uran i USA anvendt til kernevåben eller af den amerikanske flåde.
Området, der ifølge Nuclear Wastelands s. 226 er stærkt forurenet er underlagt the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan.
Se også: East Tennessee Technology Park ; Federation of American Scientists ; kviksølv / mercury ; Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology ; Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Computer Science and Mathematics Division.

Litteratur

Arkivfortegnelse: Atomic Energy Commission and the Secret City of Oak Ridge.
- Morrow, GA: National Archives at Atlanta, 2012.
- http://www.archives.gov/atlanta/finding-aids/atomic-energy-commission.pdf
An Account of Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Thirteen Nuclear Reactors / Prepared by Murray W. Rosenthal, Deputy Director, ORNL (retired). DOE, ORNL/TM-2009/181. 2009. - 80 s.
- http://info.ornl.gov/sites/publications/Files/Pub20808.pdf
U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Environment, Safety, and Health: Independent Investigation Of The East Tennessee Technology Park, October 2000.
"Conservative estimates indicated that 35,000 pounds of uranium were released into the air from all sources. 4,300 pounds of uranium a month was unaccounted for or released to the environment. ETTP operates an incinerator which handles radioactive, hazardous and uranium-contaminated PCB wastes. ETTP generated transuranic elements (isotopes with atomic numbers greater than uranium) such as neptunium-237 and plutonium-239; fission products such as techneitum-99; PCBs; toxic metals; and volatile organic compunds such as trichloroethene (TCE) and present risk to the public".
http://www.archive.org/details/IndependentInvestigationOfTheEastTennesseeTechnologyPark
DOE National Laboratory restructuring : hearing before the Subcommittee on Basic Research of the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, first session, on H.R. 884 to authorize retirement incentives for certain employees of the national laboratories and H.R. 2301 to designate an enclosed area of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee as the "Marilyn Lloyd Environmental, Life and Social Sciences Complex." (1996).
http://www.archive.org/details/doenationallabor00unit
Robinson, George O: The Oak Ridge story; the saga of a people who share in history.
- Kingsport, Tenn., Southern Publishers, 1950. - 222 s.
http://www.archive.org/details/oakridgestorysag00robirich


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