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Oak Ridge National Laboratory - First Fifty Years (Paperback, New)
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory - First Fifty Years (Paperback, New)
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Inaugurated fifty years ago as a key component in the Manhattan
Project, Oak Ridge National Laboratory remains one of the nation's
premier research institutions. This profusely illustrated volume,
written for a non-scientific readership, chronicles the history of
the laboratory from its origins to the present day. Leland Johnson
and Daniel Schaffer begin their narrative in 1943 when the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers built ORNL in the hills of East Tennessee
to produce plutonium for atomic weapons. After World War II, ORNL
became a center for fundamental scientific research under the
successive management of the Atomic Energy Commission, the Energy
Research and Development Administration, and the Department of
Energy. Since 1945, the laboratory's contributions to national
defense have been balanced by its investigations in many other
areas, including nuclear medicine and environmental research. As
the authors demonstrate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory represents
the concerns of the American scientific establishment in microcosm.
The facility was part of the flourishing of big science that began
in the 1940s, and the workings of ORNL clearly illustrate the ties
between scientific research and military concerns that continued
well into the post-World War II era. Now that the Cold War is over,
the laboratory's activities have embarked in directions that reveal
the nation's new priorities in science, the environment, and
technology. Thus this book, by offering a window into the past and
present activity at Oak Ridge, allows the reader to glimpse the
larger trends within the scientific community.
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