CSPAN3 Oak Ridge National Laboratory November 25, 2016
Downtown chicago. And so were going to buy a tract of lan somewhere, and they ended up in east tennessee, about 100 square miles down here. The purpose of this facility at oak ridge it wasnt oak ridge at the time. It was just a farm community, and the purpose here was to not only build what we know today as the graphite reactor to produce these trace amounts of plutonium, which would be used as a fuel and a weapon, but also to enrich uranium, because the arm corps of engineers, which ran the Manhattan Project under general listly groves, groves was sort of a fella that said, well, we dont know...