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= Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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= ORNL
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= Oak Ridge
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Located in <Tennessee> in the East of the <United States>.

The precursor organization to <ORNL> was called <Clinton Engineer Works>, where groundbreaking <Manhattan Project> experiments and nuclear production took place during <World War II>

Some key experiments carried out there include:
* 1943: <X-10 Graphite Reactor>: prototype <Plutonium> <breeder reactor>
* <isotope separation> to purify <Uranium-235>:
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