Tennessee Eastman worked closely with Stone & Webster to develop the chemical process based on UC Berkeley’s work, then trained the operators, “the Calutron girls,” straight out of high school.

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 ...

One of the last few Oak Ridge calutron girls, Mona Beckner, will soon be celebrating a century of life. She turns 100 on January 18. The East Tennessee native has a life worthy of history books.

Growing up near Oak Ridge, Tenn., I thought I knew what went on there. Not many people did in the beginning. In 1942, the U.S. government began building a secret city in East Tennessee as part of ...

Before she was a Calutron Girl, she was a Rosie the Riveter. Opal Talbott returned to Oak Ridge on Thursday to visit the town she left 77 years ago. In addition to a private afternoon tour of the ...

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 ...

to operate the plant?” Tennessee Eastman worked closely with Stone & Webster to develop the chemical process based on UC Berkeley’s work, then trained the operators, “the Calutron girls,” straight out ...