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Weekly 150: The Manhattan Project

Building Oak Ridge Part III

By Jason Martin
jmartin@mckenziebanner.com
Posted 4/25/23

The K-25 Plant in Oak Ridge housed the gaseous diffusion apparatus used to partially enrich uranium before it was sent to the nearby Y-12 Plant. K-25 comes from Kellex Corporation, the contractor that designed and built the plant, and uranium-235, often shortened to 25. The plant was a mile-long, U-shaped building making it the world’s largest roofed building at the time.

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