Article: The resource in Oak Ridge. (Tennessee) (Mark: My Word) (Column)

The Manhattan Project. Uranium. Atomic bombs. Those are some of the powerfully suggestive words associated with the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Y-12 plant in Tennessee. How about these powerfully suggestive words: agile manufacturing, technology transfer, "the largest and most diverse job shop in the United States." These words make a better fit.

This sprawling complex of factories has a new mission. Built in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project, the plant's original mission was to separate uranium-235 for use in the atom bomb. After the war, the primary mission of the plant has been to manufacture nuclear weapon components. Today, the plant is officially ...

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