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

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

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"Being at Oak Ridge allowed me to build connections with the scientists there and use their expertise to help with some of the problems we had to solve to complete this study."

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Florida State University has been a sponsoring member of Oak Ridge Associated Universities since 1951 and is also a core university partner of the national laboratory.

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The research was supported by the National Science Foundation and carried out using facilities at Florida State University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory, concludes that “current AI systems can technically perform approximately 16% of classified labor tasks.”

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