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Have you ever heard of Oak Ridge, Tennessee?
December 11, 2019, 07:56 PM
orionS14Have you ever heard of Oak Ridge, Tennessee?
Heard of it years ago in some documentary, but don't really know anything about the place.
However, I've driven through there 3-4x in the last few years on my way to Windrock, a large off-road park nearby (in Oliver Springs).
I'd like to make time to check out the place next trip...
- Brian
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December 11, 2019, 08:29 PM
2012BOSS302I have known about Oak Ridge since the 70's. Several years ago we brought some of their engineers out to do some RF fingerprinting on our semiconductor equipment. It seems we (taxpayers) buy them all kinds of cool test equipment. They had more then the equipment manufacturers do. It was a good report, I was impressed with them.
Donald Trump is not a politician, he is a leader, politicians are a dime a dozen, leaders are priceless. December 12, 2019, 07:17 AM
Batty67Absolutely, big research facility there (or maybe more than one), and they do lots of important environment and energy work.
December 12, 2019, 08:27 AM
SBrooksWe (State of TN) have recently issued a permit for some re-construction activity on the range where DOE shoots its Dillon mini-gun SUVs (Oak Ridge Central Training Facility - for the protective force).
The rapid fire has destroyed the embankment. They are re-facing the embankment with some material that will better absorb all the bullets/impacts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHHj8IavEjk
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SBrooks
December 12, 2019, 08:37 AM
Oz_Shadowquote:
Originally posted by Harleysbluff:
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Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:
And it was the answer to tonight’s Jeopardy final question heh.
I saw that and knew the answer from reading this thread - lol
MDS
And two of the three contestants got it wrong!
December 12, 2019, 09:36 AM
PASigYes, I've been to Y-12 for training related to my job.
We learned about a fascinating story about the machines used at Y-12 for separating uranium, called Caultrons. There was a shortage of vital copper for the coils in these things due to WWII, so the Treasury actually LENT silver to the plant to substitute for copper!
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However, perhaps the most interesting anecdote related to the calutrons is the story of the silver magnet coils As a result of war time shortages, most of the α and about half of the β unit magnet coils were made of silver rather than copper. During the calutron construction period, 1942–1945, copper in brass shell casings received a higher priority than calutron construction. Scientists involved in construction of the coils needed another metal. Research indicated that there were large stores of silver, an excellent electrical conductor, in the federal treasury repository at West Point, NY. A Treasury official was approached about the possibility of loaning silver to a wartime emergency project. When the official asked about the amount of silver required, he was told that the project would require about 15,000 tons of the metal. His response was “Sir, we measure our silver in ounces, not tons”. Despite the official’s chagrin, about 300-million Troy ounces of silver were loaned to the Manhattan Engineering District and shipped, under guard, to Detroit for drawing into silver buss. Guards were always present to pick up filings and scrap. After the war, the silver was returned to the Treasury with virtually no loss.
Preparative Scale Mass Spectrometry: A Brief History of the Calutron
March 15, 2020, 02:42 PM
Modern Day SavageBumping this old thread, only because I just came across this interesting story of how Oak Ridge came to be, from the time that the government seized the land and evicted the farmers from land they had farmed for generations, to building a town of 75,000. The story was told from the perspective of the only photographer allowed on the land to record the activities. The push to accomplish what they needed to was almost incomprehensible, even by today's standards... although secrecy was imperative back then, it's a story that should be taught in schools and that everyone should know today. The photographs alone are worth your time, but the 35 minute story told is incredible. Absolutely fascinating!
The Manhattan Project: The Story of a Place, a Photographer, and a TimeMarch 15, 2020, 02:48 PM
Sig2340I've done work on both the K25 and Y12 cleanup.
Nice is overrated
"It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government."
Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018
March 15, 2020, 03:18 PM
kkinaWell, I've heard of the Oak Ridge Boys, but I didn't know until now that they got their name from early performances at the nuclear research facility.
March 15, 2020, 05:32 PM
flashguyThe Department of Education has SUVs with mounted miniguns? Whatever for?
flashguy
Texan by choice, not accident of birth March 15, 2020, 05:45 PM
MikeNHMy last job took me to just about every national lab we have.
March 15, 2020, 06:09 PM
Sigmundquote:
Originally posted by flashguy:
The Department of Education has SUVs with mounted miniguns? Whatever for?
flashguy
Uh...they might belong to Department of
Energy. They "own" our nuclear weapons and components.
March 15, 2020, 06:15 PM
Modern Day Savagequote:
Originally posted by flashguy:
The Department of Education has SUVs with mounted miniguns? Whatever for?
flashguy
I'm hoping that was meant as a joke...but on the chance that it wasn't, this thread is (mostly) discussing the history and responsibilities of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and the nuclear fissile material managed by the
Department of Energy- or DOEMarch 15, 2020, 06:48 PM
corsairquote:
Originally posted by flashguy:
The Department of Education has SUVs with mounted miniguns? Whatever for?
flashguy
Back in the 00's, Lawrence Livermore Lab security got their miniguns and
on que, the local news worked to generate outrage.March 15, 2020, 09:04 PM
rduckworMaternal GF was an engineer at ORNL.
RMD
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Remember: After the first one, the rest are free.
March 16, 2020, 10:30 AM
46and2Everything I know about it can be summarized by the following six sounds:
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March 16, 2020, 10:47 AM
GeorgeairI know enough about to know where to get pizza!
Big Ed’s - yum!
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March 16, 2020, 11:19 AM
LimaCharlieI learned about Oak Ridge, Hanford, Los Alamos, and White Sands from my seventh grade history teacher in the 1950s. I learned about Sandpoint, Idaho in the Navy in the early 1960s.
U.S. Army, Retired
March 16, 2020, 02:21 PM
hberttmankYep, I remember Oak Ridge.
"But, as luck would have it, he stood up. He caught that chunk of lead." Gunnery Sergeant Carlos Hathcock
"If there's one thing this last week has taught me, it's better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it." Clarence Worley March 16, 2020, 03:30 PM
jhe888Well, sure I did.
But a lot of people are not very well educated. Look at those old Jay Leno bits where he went around and asked people about who was the Vice-President, or where Virginia is on a map.
If you don't know how many Senators there are, you can't really be expected to have heard of Oak Ridge, can you?
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