One of the last few Oak Ridge calutron girls, Mona Beckner, will soon be celebrating a century of life. She turns 100 on January 18. The East Tennessee native has a life worthy of history books. She ...
One of the last few Oak Ridge calutron girls, Mona Beckner, will soon be celebrating a century of life. She turns 100 on January 18. The East Tennessee native has a life worthy of history books. She ...
OAK RIDGE, Tenn. — Thursday was a special day in Oak Ridge as the community helped celebrate the 101st birthday of a woman who played a key role in the Manhattan Project. Opal Talbott returned to Oak ...
A Calutron Girl for me for the past few years has recently passed away - Ruth Huddleston. She was certainly one of the most articulate of the several women who assisted me in telling the story of Oak ...
This “Historically Speaking” column results from an email exchange with Richard Butner. He contacted me in May 2015, asking if I still wanted to locate Calutron Girls. Of course, I said, “Yes!” He ...
Calutron operators at their panels, in the Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge during World War II. 1944. The calutrons were used to refine uranium ore into fissile material. During the Manhattan Project effort ...
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The story of Col. Kenneth Nichols continues with Y-12, E.O. Lawrence, and the Calutron Girls
Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major General Kenneth D. Nichols continues her series on his life. Ample reasons, most notably leadership skills, personality traits and qualifications, led to choosing ...
Before she was a Calutron Girl, she was a Rosie the Riveter. Opal Talbott returned to Oak Ridge on Thursday to visit the town she left 77 years ago. In addition to a private afternoon tour of the Y-12 ...
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