Collage-Nikov2010
DEVELOPING THE FIRST ATOMIC PILES=NUCLEAR REACTORS...
In February 1943, construction was begun in Oak Ridge on a graphite pile, which had been given the code name X-10. Though X-10 was under the jurisdiction of the University of Chicago, the staff was made-up largely of DuPont people. Everything connected with the project was kept secret;all classified materials were referred to by code name only. The English code name for uranium was "tuballoy."
The X-10 pile was still under construction when DuPont suddenly decided to switch to the water-cooling method & develop the model conceived by Dr. Eugene Wigner & his group. This was a major decision, announced by Crawford Greenewalt only after the company's careful study of the different methods. Work on helium cooling was abandoned, & the efforts of DuPonts's Design Division were concentrated exclusively on Wigner's model. Thus, the plutonium project followed a peculiar pattern: design & development were carried-out at the same time as the construction of the real plant & the building of the pilot plant. X-10 was completed in November, & although it could not serve as pilot for Hanford reactors, it produced small amounts of plutonium invaluable to the Los Alamos scientists as a research tool." MANHATTAN PROJECT...The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb. Stephane Groueff. This picture has been used to portray the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, atomic pile/reactor prototype plutonium manufacturing industry's 1st design cooperative between giant corporations & nuclear/atomic/physicists working on the gov't's atomic device "to end the war."
DEVELOPING THE FIRST ATOMIC PILES=NUCLEAR REACTORS...
In February 1943, construction was begun in Oak Ridge on a graphite pile, which had been given the code name X-10. Though X-10 was under the jurisdiction of the University of Chicago, the staff was made-up largely of DuPont people. Everything connected with the project was kept secret;all classified materials were referred to by code name only. The English code name for uranium was "tuballoy."
The X-10 pile was still under construction when DuPont suddenly decided to switch to the water-cooling method & develop the model conceived by Dr. Eugene Wigner & his group. This was a major decision, announced by Crawford Greenewalt only after the company's careful study of the different methods. Work on helium cooling was abandoned, & the efforts of DuPonts's Design Division were concentrated exclusively on Wigner's model. Thus, the plutonium project followed a peculiar pattern: design & development were carried-out at the same time as the construction of the real plant & the building of the pilot plant. X-10 was completed in November, & although it could not serve as pilot for Hanford reactors, it produced small amounts of plutonium invaluable to the Los Alamos scientists as a research tool." MANHATTAN PROJECT...The Untold Story of the Making of the Atomic Bomb. Stephane Groueff. This picture has been used to portray the Oak Ridge, Tennessee, atomic pile/reactor prototype plutonium manufacturing industry's 1st design cooperative between giant corporations & nuclear/atomic/physicists working on the gov't's atomic device "to end the war."