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Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Oak Ridge National Laboratory by Ciro Santilli 37  Updated 2025-05-09  +Created 1970-01-01
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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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