Oak Ridge
a city in E Tennessee, near Knoxville: atomic research center.
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How to use Oak Ridge in a sentence
Yarmak says the hardest part of the Oak Ridge project was keeping workers safe and preventing the spread of nuclear contamination.
Fukushima N-Plant Will Be Surrounded by a Wall of Ice | Josh Dzieza | September 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThere are other sites in America with long nuclear histories—places like Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, Yucca Mountain.
At the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a Steady Drip of Toxic Trouble | Eric Nusbaum | February 24, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTAt the Oak Ridge Gun Range, also in Orlando, a class for concealed-carry applications runs three hours and includes a video.
In Florida, It’s Often Shoot First, Learn The Law Later | Aram Roston | May 17, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMeanwhile, another team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has announced plans to build a machine of comparable power.
The U.S. Is Busy Building Supercomputers, but Needs Someone to Run Them | Dan Lyons | December 28, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTLarry grew a full beard, but that was a smidge too country—“I looked like an Oak Ridge Boy”—so he pruned it down into a goatee.
He had seen the plant at Oak Ridge where uranium was extracted by the gas diffusion method.
The Blue Ghost Mystery | Harold Leland GoodwinElement 61 was made for the first time from the fission disintegration products of uranium in the Clinton (Oak Ridge) reactor.
A Brief History of Element Discovery, Synthesis, and Analysis | Glen W. WatsonMilligrams of it, shipped from Oak Ridge for scientific use, were encased in thick lead chests.
Space Platform | Murray LeinsterI picked this one six miles up on White Oak Ridge yesterday.
The Power and the Glory | Grace MacGowan CookeElsli spent all her time out of school at Oak-ridge, and was very happy in her work.
Gritli's Children | Johanna Spyri
Cultural definitions for Oak Ridge
A city in Tennessee, where uranium for the atomic bomb (see also atomic bomb) was produced during World War II. Since that time, the government has maintained a variety of nuclear research facilities in Oak Ridge. (See also Manhattan Project.)
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