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In an early September report, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board said Consolidated Nuclear Security and the National Nuclear Security Administration Production Office had officially downgraded Building 9204-2. It’s now used to produce lithium for nuclear weapons. It’s one of nine buildings at the 811-acre site that once used machines known as calutrons to enrich uranium for atomic bombs as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project during World War II. The building, 9204-2, or Beta 2, is on the west side of Y-12. Nuclear materials and operations have been removed from an old building at the Y-12 National Security Complex, and that improves safety and reduces the risk to workers and the public, a federal safety board said. (Photo courtesy Consolidated Nuclear Security) Part of Building 9204-2E (Beta 2E) is pictured in the top left. īuilding 9204-2 (Beta 2) is pictured above at center at the Y-12 National Security Complex. Featuring perspectives from current ORNL scientists and Manhattan Project veterans, the program illuminates Oak Ridge’s history and how the laboratory responds to some of today’s biggest challenges, the press release said. The program was developed in partnership with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers East Tennessee Section and funded by the IEEE Foundation. Available on AHF’s “ Ranger in Your Pocket” website, “Oak Ridge Innovations” includes more than 30 video vignettes describing ORNL’s history and current research in fields such as energy, particle physics, computer science, and medicine, a press release said. The Atomic Heritage Foundation has launched a new online interpretive program, “ Oak Ridge Innovations,” to explore Oak Ridge’s legacies for science and society today. Today, Oak Ridge is the home of many leading scientific and engineering research facilities, including Oak Ridge National Laboratory. All of that goes back to Oak Ridge,” explains Denise Kiernan, bestselling author of “The Girls of Atomic City.” Oak Ridge, Tennessee has been a center for nuclear research since General Leslie Groves selected it as the Manhattan Project’s uranium enrichment site in 1942.

“Nuclear medicine, nuclear energy, nuclear weapons.
