Oak Ridge

American  

noun

1. a city in E Tennessee, near Knoxville: atomic research center.

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Oak Ridge Cultural  

1. 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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Example Sentences

Writer Judith Dancoff links her hyperthyroidism and long-term reproductive issues from a pituitary gland tumor to childhood radiation exposure during a summer spent at the Oak Ridge uranium enrichment site in Tennessee where her father worked as a student of Oppenheimer.

From Los Angeles Times

The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education team helped organize the workshop.

From Science Daily

Centrus Energy is expanding a manufacturing facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn., investing more than $560 million to produce thousands of advanced centrifuges for its uranium enrichment plant in Ohio, which it’s also expanding.

From The Wall Street Journal

Orano USA, a unit of France’s Orano Group, is developing a $5 billion nuclear fuel enrichment plant, also in Oak Ridge, Tenn., with first deliveries expected at the start of the 2030s.

From The Wall Street Journal

Campbell completed part of the research at Oak Ridge National Laboratory while supported by an FSU fellowship.

From Science Daily