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Q: What program was the oak ridge facility built to support?
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What is the oak ridge nuclear plant?

It is the facility built to produce nuclear material for the US Atomic weapons program.


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A ridge board doesn't support rafters of the bridge whereas a ridge beam does.


A ridge of sand built up by currents in a river or coastal waters?

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When did Oak Ridge Tennessee make an atomic bomb?

The bombs were not actually built at Oak Ridge. Oak Ridge produced the uranium for the first bomb in 1943-45. The bombs were assembled at Los Alamos, New Mexico. There was another facility at Hanford, Washington also producing fisslie material for the second bomb. Oak Ridge did not exist in 1941, it was empty farmland. Within two years there was a secret city of over thirty thousand inhabitants engaged in working on the project, though few understood what they were working on.


What is the name of the place the first atom bomb was built?

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How does evidence that rocks farther from a ridge are older than rocks closer to the ridge support the idea of sea floor spreading?

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What is the ridge of sand built up by the action of waves and currents?

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What role does Oak Ridge play in the development of the atomic bomb?

The main thing Oak Ridge did was uranium enrichment. But they also built and operated the X-10 reactor a prototype for the plutonium production reactors later built at Hanford.


What is a ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers?

A ridge of earth along a river that prevents flooding is called a levee. A levee is a long ridge of sand, silt and clay built up by a river along its banks.


In 1942 an atomic energy plant was built in with city of the state of Tennessee?

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Which side did the Cherokee support in the fighting at Pea Ridge?

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