Y 12 national security complex (14 resultados)

Condición: very good. Presumed first edition thus. This is a standard size postcard, with five images on the front. It could not have been produced prior to 2003 since it references at least a 60 year history of work at Y-12. A picture of General Groves is in the center surrounded by aerial views of Y-12 facilities which highlight the changes to Y-12 over its first 60 years of history. There is an external view of Bullding 9731, the 'pilot plant', a view of the Beta-track calutron loaced in Building 9204-3. The text on half of the reverse side indicates that uch of the existing physical plant and appearance of Y-12 reflects the legacy of the World War ii and Cold War eras.On February 18, 1943, in the midst of the second World War, ground was broken in rural East Tennessee for the first production building at the Y-12 Electromagnetic Separation Plant. The plant's job was to make enough enriched uranium for a new kind of bomb, an atomic bomb.In a short time Bear Creek Valley, where the plant is located, was filled with machinery and the bustle of people on a mission. At its peak in 1945, more than 22,000 workers were employed at the site. Thirty months later the success of Y-12's mission was announced to the world when after two atomic weapons (the uranium bomb, Little Boy, and the plutonium bomb, Fat Man) were detonated, the Empire of Japan surrendered and World War II ended. Y-12 had separated the uranium used in Little Boy.Since that time Y-12's missions have changed. Y-12 played a key part in the production of thermonuclear weapons, helping win the Cold War with 8,000 people working around the clock to produce nuclear weapon secondaries. Postcard--this is a standard size with illustration on the front, text on half of the reverse, with space for the postcard to be addressed and stamped.…

Condición: Very good. Presumed first edition thus. This item is the size of a standard postcard. It is not a postcard, as there is no place for a stamp or an address to be put in. Each side has three images, on of the calutron operations, one of the individual in 1945, and again in either 2004 or 2008.Gladys Owens was one of "The Calutron Girls" from January 1945 to August 1945. She was one of a special group of young high school graduates hired and trained to do only what they were told to do without questioning and without discussion. She only knew she was doing something vital to her nation and was helping win the war. Connie Bolling was one of Oak Ridge's first inhabitants, an engineer and schoolteacher who was recruited to train the unskilled workers. He remembers the city springing up from nothing in 1943. "When I arrived there was nothing but farmland, but pretty soon they were building houses, one every 30 minutes, hauling them in, half-built, on trucks down the street. The place was soon full of thousands of workers."By 1945, Oak Ridge would contain the world's first nuclear reactor, the biggest building in the world, and would use one-sixth of all the electricity generated in the US. Even though everything was classified, the army wanted to document how the billions of dollars committed to the programme by Congress was being spent and it appointed a young soldier, Ed Westcott, as official project photographer. He took thousands of photographs showing every aspect of life in "the city behind the fence". Postcard size ephemera--images on each side.…

Condición: Very good. Presumed first edition thus. This postcard has a backgroun picture of the Y-12 plant (nestled in the Bear Creek Valley). There are five logos presented. One is a patch which is the original Manhattan Project insigna. Two prominantly display Y-12 and Oak Ridge. One is an Atoms for Peace logo. One has Y-12 less prominantely presented and is a Union Carbide Logo showing the symbol of the traveling atom, a submarine, a missile, and a plant building.On February 18, 1943, in the midst of the second World War, ground was broken in rural East Tennessee for the first production building at the Y-12 Electromagnetic Separation Plant. The plant's job was to make enough enriched uranium for a new kind of bomb, an atomic bomb.In a short time Bear Creek Valley, where the plant is located, was filled with machinery and the bustle of people on a mission. At its peak in 1945, more than 22,000 workers were employed at the site. Thirty months later the success of Y-12's mission was announced to the world when after two atomic weapons (the uranium bomb, Little Boy, and the plutonium bomb, Fat Man) were detonated, the Empire of Japan surrendered and World War II ended. Y-12 had separated the uranium used in Little Boy.Since that time Y-12's missions have changed. Y-12 played a key part in the production of thermonuclear weapons, helping win the Cold War with 8,000 people working around the clock to produce nuclear weapon secondaries. Postcard. Standard size with illustration on front and text on half of the back.…

Condición: very good. Presumed first edition thus. This is a standard size postcrd, with photos of Alpha and Beta calutrons on the front with some text, and additonal information on half of the other side, with the last portion blank so the post card could be addressed and stamped.Building 9731, the Calutron Pilot Plant, also called ZAX/XBX, was the first building to become operational in the fall of 1943. It contained two each of the alpha and beta calutrons. It was used as a training facility as well.The calutrons there were also used to prove the operational changes suggested by Ernest O. Lawrence fromthe Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley, CA. Often, during the early days of Y-12's history, Lawrence, himself, would travel to Y-12 and personallymake adjustments to the calutrons. General Leslie R. Groves was also a frequent visitor during the startup and early operations. This is the first tangible product producing equipment. They did notreally know what to expect. Personal inspection of the operation was a must to fully understand whatwas going on. Postcard--one retectangular card with printing on both sides.…

unknown. This is a plastic bag approximately 12 inches by 15 inches, with hand-hold space at the top of each side. It was made in the U.S.A. and was stated as being reuseable. It was associated with the Y-12 History Center and was likely used to carry away purchases or provided information.The Y-12 National Security Complex is a United States Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration facility located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It was built as part of the Manhattan Project for the purpose of enriching uranium for the first atomic bombs. In the years after World War II, it has been operated as a manufacturing facility for nuclear weapons components and related defense purposes.Y-12 is managed and operated under contract by Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS). Good (has been used and folded) Ephemera--this is a Y-12 assocaited plastic bag.…

Condición: Very good. Believed to be a revised edition. Brochure--this is a standard size sheet, printed on both sides, with three panels. The Y-12 National Security Complex is a United States Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration facility located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It was built as part of the Manhattan Project for the purpose of enriching uranium for the first atomic bombs. In the years after World War II, it has been operated as a manufacturing facility for nuclear weapons components and related defense purposes.Y-12 is the World War II code name for the electromagnetic isotope separation plant producing enriched uranium at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as part of the Manhattan Project. Construction began in February 1943 under the management of Stone and Webster. Because of a wartime shortage of copper, the massive electromagnetic coils were made with 14,700 tons of coinage silver from U.S. government vaults at West Point. The Y-12 facility began operating in November 1943, separating uranium-235 from natural uranium, which is 99.3% uranium-238, by using calutrons to perform electromagnetic isotope separation. Y-12 separated the uranium-235 for Little Boy, the nuclear weapon that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. K-25, another facility in Oak Ridge, produced enriched uranium using gaseous diffusion. However, K-25 did not begin operating until March 1945 and fed slightly enriched uranium to Y-12's Beta Calutrons as the push to obtain enough uranium 235 for Little Boy came in the early summer of 1945. The S-50 Thermal Diffusion Plant at the K-25 site also provided feed material for Y-12's Beta Calutrons. Brochure--this is a standard size sheet, printed on both sides, with three panels. …

Condición: Good--some edge wear noted. Presumed to be revision 2. This is a one-page information sheet--a broadside printed on front and back. It is illustrated and has a glossary of terms.A calutron is a mass spectrometer originally designed and used for separating the isotopes of uranium. It was developed by Ernest O. Lawrence during the Manhattan Project and was based on his earlier invention, the cyclotron. Its name was derived from California University Cyclotron, in tribute to Lawrence's institution, the University of California, where it was invented. Calutrons were used in the industrial-scale Y-12 uranium enrichment plant at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The uranium-235 produced there was used in the Little Boy atomic bomb that was detonated over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945.The Y-12 National Security Complex is a United States Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration facility located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It was built as part of the Manhattan Project for the purpose of enriching uranium for the first atomic bombs. In the years after World War II, it has been operated as a manufacturing facility for nuclear weapons components and related defense purposes.Y-12 is managed and operated under contract by Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS), which is composed of member companies Bechtel National, Inc., Lockheed Martin Services, Inc., ATK Launch Systems, Inc., and SOC LLC, with Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. as a teaming subcontractor. CNS also operates Pantex Plant in Texas.[1] broadside--single sheet printed back and front.…

Condición: Very good. May be a revised version. This is a brochure. It is a single oversized sheet with four panels per side. There is text on all eight panels and illustrations on seven of the panels with the Y-12 logo on the eighth panel. A calutron is a mass spectrometer originally designed and used for separating the isotopes of uranium. It was developed by Ernest O. Lawrence during the Manhattan Project and was based on his earlier invention, the cyclotron. Its name was derived from California University Cyclotron, in tribute to Lawrence's institution, the University of California, where it was invented. Calutrons were used in the industrial-scale Y-12 uranium enrichment plant at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The uranium-235 produced there was used in the Little Boy atomic bomb that was detonated over Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. During World War II, calutrons were developed to obtain substantial quantities of high-purity uranium-235, by taking advantage of the small mass difference between uranium isotopes. Electromagnetic separation for uranium enrichment was abandoned in the post-war period in favor of the more complicated, but more efficient, gaseous diffusion method. Although most of the calutrons of the Manhattan Project were dismantled at the end of the war, some remained in use to produce isotopically enriched samples of naturally occurring elements for military, scientific and medical purposes. Brochure. This is a single, over-sized sheet with four panels per side.…

Pamphlet. Condición: Very good. Presumed first edition. 16 page illustrated pamphlet/exhibit brochure. Includes color illustrations. This discusses a photography mural exhibit that featured the history of the Bear Creek Vally and the Y-12 National Security Complex through the years. This booklet supplements the photographic exhibit and provides additional details for selected images. Many of the early images of Y-12's history were captured by Ed Wescott, the official photographer of the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge.…

DVD in a plastic case. Condición: Very good. This is a DVD in a plastic case. It states that it has a run time of 10 minutes. The Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12) is in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, about 15 miles from Knoxville, and dates from the World War II Manhattan Project. The total Y-12 Site footprint is 7.6 million sq-ft, with a 10-year plan to reduce the footprint to 3 million sq-ft by 2028. Under NNSA's plans for Complex Transformation, Y-12 would be the 'Uranium Center of Excellence'. Y-12 contains the world's largest repository of highly enriched uranium (HEU) in metal form, storing approximately 400 MT of the material- enough for about 14,000 nuclear warheads. While Y-12 refers to itself as the 'Fort Knox' for storage and management of HEU, there are a number of security risks posed by the site. Presumed First Edition, First issue thus.…

Spiral bound wraps. Condición: Very good. Unpaginated (28 printed pages, most single-sided. Decades of precision work at Y 12 have created expertise in many areas. Our expertise puts us in a unique position to solve problems for other customers in government and in the private sector. We partner with other other Department of Energy sites, other government agencies, academic institutions and private industries. Among our academic partnerships is our collaboration with the nearby University of Tennessee. Leaders from Y-12's divisions have identified specific areas where their needs might align with UT faculty research strengths, and we are working on projects with nine of UT's eleven colleges. Our partners have access to many unique and highly specialized products and services not available in the private sector. A substantial portion of this publication consists of single page overviews of specific technology developments available for licensing and/or other partnership opportunities. Technology transfer is the process of transferring technology from the places and in groups of its origination to wider distribution among more people and places. It occurs along various axes: among universities, from universities to businesses, from large businesses to smaller ones, from governments to businesses, across borders, both formally and informally, and both openly and surreptitiously. Often it occurs by concerted effort to share skills, knowledge, technologies, methods of manufacturing, samples of manufacturing, and facilities among governments or universities and other institutions to ensure that scientific and technological developments are accessible to a wider range of users who can then further develop and exploit the technology into new products, processes, applications, materials, or services. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.…

DVD in a paper sleeve. Condición: Very good. DVD in a paper sleeve. This is marked UNCLASSIFIED NONSENSITIVE. It has a run time of 5 minutes and 36 seconds.Y-12 had a role in man's first landing on the moon. They fabricated the "moon boxes" - lunar sample return containers - for the Apollo Program.The choice of the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant to perform the design, development, testing, and manufacturingfunctions of the ALSRC and associated hardware programs resulted from the consideration of severalfactors, including the following:1. Complete capabilities were available at the Oak Ridge Y-12 Plant. These capabilities includeddevelopment in the requisite disciplines, available engineering, applicable testing facilities andexperience, extensive manufacturing facilities, and extensive quality control and quality assuranceorganizations at both the contractor and government level.2. Extensive experience and expertise had been acquired in the design, development, testing, andmanufacture of unusual components for other USAEC facilities.3. Scientific support in a large number of fields was readily available from the Oak Ridge NationalLaboratory.4. There was a ready integration of the ALSRC and associated hardware with the vacuum system inthe Lunar Receiving Laboratory (LRL) since that system was also designed and built by the OakRidge Y-12 Plant.A Quality Assurance Program was implemented specifically for the project. The program was based onNASA's quality requirements but was also in accordance with UCC-ND Y-12 Plant quality doctrine whichwas understood to be among the very best in the world. The extensive quality program included allaspects of the project and related hardware to include both the moon box and the receiving laboratory,both of which had to be capable of maintain the lunar material in isolation from earth's environment.…

Wraps. Condición: Very good. 24 pages plus covers. Illustrations (most in color). Minor fore-edge curling. BWXT Y-12 LLC was the entity managing the Y-12 complex for part of the first decade of the 21st century. This document is dated as being published in 2002 or very early in 2003 based on the statement on page 2 that the Y-12 National Security Complex was about to celebrate it 60th birthday in February 2003. The Y-12 National Security Complex is a United States Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration facility located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It was built as part of the Manhattan Project for the purpose of enriching uranium for the first atomic bombs. It is considered the birthplace of the atomic bomb. In the years after World War II, it has been operated as a manufacturing facility for nuclear weapons components and related defense purposes. Y-12's primary missions since the end of the Cold War have been to support defense needs through stockpile stewardship, assist on issues of nuclear non-proliferation, support the Naval Reactors program, and provide expertise to other federal agencies. Y-12 is also responsible for the maintenance and production of all uranium parts for every nuclear weapon in the United States arsenal. Y-12 is responsible for the production and maintenance of the "secondary" aspect of thermonuclear devices. Y-12 has a history of providing secure storage of nuclear material for both the United States and other governments. Early efforts focused on securing material from the former Soviet Union; recent activities have included recovery of highly enriched uranium from Chile. Environmental cleanup has been an ongoing issue for the Department of Energy in Oak Ridge. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.…

Brochure. Condición: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. 11 inches by 34 inches, folded so that there are four panels on each side. Maps. Circa 2010? Scarce. When open four panels on one side presents a detailed map of the Y-12 Complex. Two panels on the other side are a key to the building numbers and locations. The front panel has some introductory text and phone numbers for the visitor center, badge office and other organizations. The final, rear panel has maps of the Oak Ridge-Knoxville Route and the City of Oak Ridge. The Y-12 National Security Complex is a United States Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration facility located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It was built as part of the Manhattan Project for the purpose of enriching uranium for the first atomic bombs. In the years after World War II, it has been operated as a manufacturing facility for nuclear weapons components and related defense purposes. Y-12 is managed and operated under contract by Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS), which is composed of member companies Bechtel National, Inc., Lockheed Martin Services, Inc., ATK Launch Systems, Inc., and SOC LLC, with Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. as a teaming subcontractor. CNS also operates Pantex Plant in Texas. Y-12's primary missions since the end of the Cold War have been to support defense needs through stockpile stewardship, assist on issues of nuclear non-proliferation, support the Naval Reactors program, and provide expertise to other federal agencies. Y-12 is also responsible for the maintenance and production of all uranium parts for every nuclear weapon in the United States arsenal. Y-12 is responsible for the production and maintenance of the "secondary" aspect of thermonuclear devices. Y-12 has a history of providing secure storage of nuclear material for both the United States and other governments. Early efforts focused on securing material from the former Soviet Union; recent activities have included recovery of highly enriched uranium from Chile. Environmental cleanup has been an ongoing issue for the Department of Energy in Oak Ridge. The Y-12 plant was listed as an EPA Superfund site in the 1990s for groundwater and soil contamination. Today, the Y-12 plant is listed on the DOE's Cleanup Criteria/Decision Document Database (or C2D2 database). An influx of funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act benefited cleanup efforts by funding demolition and decontamination of aging facilities. These efforts work to further the long term reduction in the size of the Y-12 facility. CNS Y-12 employs approximately 4,700 people. About 1,500 additional personnel work onsite as employees of organizations that include UT-Battelle, Science Applications International Corporation, Bechtel Jacobs, and WSI Oak Ridge (an American-controlled unit of G4S Secure Solutions), which holds the security contract for the site. Y-12's manufacturing facility provides vital elements of the National Nuclear Security Administration's operations in four strategic areas, including Defense Programs (manufacturing, storage, and stockpile), Nuclear Nonproliferation (nuclear material security), Naval Reactors (uranium processing for Navy), and Complementary Work (mobile hospitals, response training, and access control technology).…