Author : Leland Johnson
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 36,74 MB
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870498541
Book Description
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.