The Morning of Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Detecting Xenon's Effects – Discovery of America by Queltanews

Physicist John Wheeler worried that unwanted isotopes capable of stopping chain reactions would be found in the irradiated uranium. Like the boron and cadmium used in reactor control rods, the isotopes would have     more...

The Morning of Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Plutonium large scale production – Discovery of America by Queltanews

When plutonium separation ceased at X-10 In early 1945,, the Graphite Reactor and separations plant had produced a total of 326.4 grams of plutonium, a substantial contribution to nuclear research     more...

The Morning of Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Reactor begun working – Discovery of America by Queltanews

In 1943, when Du Pont had completed the final engineering of the Graphite Reactor, Whitaker brought Compton and Fermi from Chicago to witness     more...

The Morning of Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Created to build a weapon - X-10 under construction – Discovery of America by Queltanews

On February 1, 1943, Du Pont started installing utility systems, and building the first temporary buildings. In March, construction of six hot cells for plutonium     more...

The Morning of Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Eugene Wigner - the "Patron Saint" of the Laboratory – Discovery of America by Queltanews

The scientific community is international in scope. As fascist dictators seized power in Europe during the 1930s, some of the continent's greatest scientists joined colleagues in Britain and America. Among them were the German, Albert Einstein; the Italian, Enrico Fermi     more...

The Morning of Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Transforming the Universe for the Better – Discovery of America by Queltanews

In 1947, when the Atomic Energy Commission decided to designate Oak Ridge a national laboratory. In choosing to call it "national" rather than "atomic energy" laboratory, the commission displayed extraordinary foresight     more...

The Morning of Oak Ridge National Laboratory: The Giant Raged – Discovery of America by Queltanews

After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, Arthur Compton, a Nobel laureate at the University of Chicago, contacted Eugene Wigner to discuss the possibility of consolidating plutonium research efforts     more...

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History of Fundamental and Applied Sciences Achievements in Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Government Policies – Discovery of America by Queltanews

ORNL research has provided important information to federal science and technology policy makers, shaping the debate and sometimes the wording of various laws, regulations, and other policies. For example     more...

History of Fundamental and Applied Sciences Achievements in Oak Ridge National Laboratory: Educational Training and Research Opportunities – Discovery of America by Queltanews

Since its inception, ORNL has made resources available for educational training and research opportunities. When Eugene Wigner in early 1946 became ORNL's research director, he established the Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology     more...