Westinghouse designed and produced the calutron tanks, liners ... Nichols and Lawrence toured Y-12 in May 1943 and Nichols recalled, “[Lawrence] was amazed at the scope and magnitude of the effort. … ...

By 1946, the uranium-enrichment operation was shifted to the Oak Ridge K-25 Gaseous Diffusion Plant, sharply curtailing the calutron operations. In 1949, the Y-12 plant began a significant ...

The project also marks the first teardown of a former uranium enrichment building at Y-12. Alpha-2 is categorized ... equipment monitored by the famed “Calutron Girls.” Although the equipment ...

A Calutron Girl for me for the past few years has recently passed away - Ruth Huddleston. She was certainly one of the most articulate of the several women who assisted me in telling the story of Oak ...

Opal is part of a famous group of women known as the "Calutron Girls" who worked behind the scenes in secret at Y-12 during World War II in support of the Manhattan Project. The women were in ...

Westinghouse designed and produced the calutron tanks, liners ... Nichols and Lawrence toured Y-12 in May 1943 and Nichols recalled, “[Lawrence] was amazed at the scope and magnitude of the ...