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Road building in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA, 1944 (b/w photo)

Road building in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA, 1944 (b/w photo)
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GBW2606712
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Road building in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA, 1944 (b/w photo)
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black and white photograph
Date
1944 AD (C20th AD)
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The town of Oak Ridge was established by the Army Corps of Engineers as part of the Clinton Engineer Works in 1942 on isolated farm land as part of the Manhattan Project. The site was chosen for the X-10 Graphite Reactor, used to show that plutonium can be extracted from enriched uranium.

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© Galerie Bilderwelt / Bridgeman Images
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