I met a nice old lady at a Gwar concert who said she worked there during the war.
Did she mention any details?
*Now it Can be Told *mentioned that many people working there were not aware of what the project would produce.
I’ll ask the wife. She talked with her more than I did. I was…distracted.
As I mentioned above only the very top people at Oak Ridge knew the real reason for the work. After the A bombs were dropped most of them figured out what they were doing even before they were officially told the truth. One reason they picked Oak Ridge is TVA had a lot of cheap power since it was almost all from dams and it was isolated. Los Alamos was also an isolated area.
That wasn’t the only program affected by the shortage of copper. My radio comms professor told of large navel transmission system with a guard outside the transformer room - all wired with silver.
Hunh. I wonder who came up with the idea first?
Here’s her response to my inquiry “do you remember any details”
“No not really. Except it was the coolest convo ever. And then I took her to the rainbow.”
Red answer fast ? :eek:
Same with Hanford where the production reactors were located. Cheap power (thanks Bonneville Power Administration), lots of land (fairly remote), and lots of cooling water.
Some day they’ll get the mess cleaned up. Some day…
It’s a really cool tour now though.