Aerial view of the K25 Plant at the Oak Ridge
Aerial view of the K25 Plant at the Oak Ridge site of the Manhattan Project. This massive building housed the compressors and converters in which uranium hexafluoride was subjected to gaseous diffusion to separate fissionable uranium 235 from natural uranium 238. 1947 photo by Ed Westcott (BSLOC_2014_6_58)
Picture No
11001670
Media ID
45269954
Size
3000px x 2467px
(2.6MB)
Credit
Everett Collection / Mary Evans
Source
Everett Collection
