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20 unusual facts about Oak Ridge


Atomic City

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a city in Anderson and Roane Counties, Tennessee

Atomic Weapons Establishment

Lockheed's failings included safety concerns at the Y-12 facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, an American weapons plant similar in certain ways to Aldermaston.

Brookhaven National Laboratory

Brookhaven is also responsible for the design of the SNS accumulator ring in partnership with Spallation Neutron Source in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Californium

The High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, started producing small batches of californium in the 1960s.

Charles Madic

He spent two years in the U.S. at the nuclear research center of Oak Ridge in the 1980s with his wife and two little girls.

David Greenglass

He was first stationed at the massive uranium enrichment facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and later worked at the Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico.

Happy Valley, Tennessee

Happy Valley, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a Manhattan Project construction camp; no longer in existence

Jason McAddley

He played his high school football at Oak Ridge High School in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and went to the University of Alabama.

John O. Merrill

Oak Ridge – Merrill was in charge of developing the secret research campus at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Mitch Rouse

Rouse was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where he played football at Oak Ridge High School.

Norman O'Connor

O'Connor became a fixture on the New York jazz scene, and remained one even after being named director of the Mount Paul Novitiate, a church training center in Oak Ridge, New Jersey, four years later.

Oak Ridge, Missouri

Oak Ridge is a village in the southern part of Apple Creek Township in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri, United States.

Oak Ridge, Pittsylvania County, Virginia

It is known as the location of the holiday home of former British prime minister Gordon Brown.

Plowshares Movement

On July 28, 2012, three Plowshares activists, Sister Megan Rice, 82, Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, and Michael Walli, 63, who compose the Transform Now Plowshares movement, breached security at the U.S. Department of Energy's nuclear weapons facility Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, causing the government to temporarily shut down the weapons facility.

Robert Lyster Thornton

In 1943 Thornton became assistant director of the Process Improvement Division of the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where the huge Y-12 plant containing hundreds of calutrons was located.

Rockaway River

It rises at the eastern edge of Sussex County and within a few hundred yards enters Morris County, in the Highlands, along the northwestern slope of Green Pond Mountain south of Oak Ridge.

Rusi Taleyarkhan

Prior to that, he was on staff at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Uranium hexafluoride

In 2005, 686,500 tonnes in 57,122 storage cylinders were located near Portsmouth, Ohio, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Paducah, Kentucky.

Venona project

According to Alexander Vassiliev's notes from KGB archive "Quantum" was Boris Podolsky, "Pers" — Russell W. McNutt, an engineer from the uranium processing plant in Oak Ridge.

Wartburg, Tennessee

Wartburg is centered near the junction of U.S. Route 27, which connects the city to Kentucky to the north and Harriman and Interstate 40 to the south, and Tennessee State Route 62, which connects Wartburg to Oak Ridge to the east and Middle Tennessee to the west.


A. C. Clemons

The first Republican actually elected to the Louisiana State Senate since Reconstruction was Edwards Barham of Oak Ridge in Morehouse Parish north of Monroe in northeastern Louisiana, who served a single term from 1976 to 1980.

Abner Wimberly

Wimberly died on September 18, 1976 in Oak Ridge, Louisiana from injuries he received in the crash of a private Piper aircraft.

Alexander Inn

The Alexander Inn, originally known as The Guest House, is an historic building in Oak Ridge, Tennessee that was built during the Manhattan Project to house official visitors and that later was used as a hotel.

Arpad Vass

Arpad Alexander Vass (born August 30, 1959) is a research scientist and forensic anthropologist based at the Life Sciences Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Gettysburg Airport

The Gettysburg Airport (Forney Airfield in World War II) was a Gettysburg Battlefield facility northwest of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on the west slope of Oak Ridge off of the Mummasburg Road.

McLeansville, North Carolina

The community is most famous for being the hometown of American Idol (season 5) contestant Chris Daughtry while he was on the show; he now lives in Oak Ridge, North Carolina.

North Carolina Highway 150

Continuing west again, NC 150 enters the final Greensboro suburb of Oak Ridge, where it passes by the Oak Ridge Military Academy at its intersection with NC 68.

Panzer General II

Again, if the player attains victories in the east and defeats the Soviet Union, Germany can invade the United States from the Port of Savannah and then march to Oak Ridge, Tennessee to capture a prototype of a US atomic bomb.

Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant

The Portsmouth plant, so named because of its proximity to the city of Portsmouth, Ohio, was one of three gaseous diffusion plants in the United States, alongside the K-25 plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee and the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant in Kentucky.

Vic Stelly

In recent years, recipients of Stelly's personal campaign contributions have included former State Senator Robert Barham of Oak Ridge, who ran as a Republican in 2002 for Louisiana's 5th congressional district seat, former state Senator Willie Mount, who ran unsuccessfully for Louisiana's 7th congressional district, and current Republican U.S. Representative Charles Boustany of Lafayette, who defeated Mount in 2004.