History of the production complex: The methods of site selection

Technical Report · Tue Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 1987

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/5745137· OSTI ID:5745137

Experience taught the Atomic Energy Commission how to select the best possible sites for its production facilities. AEC officials learned from the precedents set by the wartime Manhattan Project and from their own mistakes in the immediate postwar years. This volume discusses several site selections. The sites covered are: (1) the Hanford Reservation, (2) the Idaho reactor site, (3) the Savannah River Plant, (4) the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant, (5) the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, (6) the Fernald Production Center, (7) the PANTEX and Spoon River Plants, (8) the Rocky Flats Fabrication Facility, and (9) the Miamisburg and Pinellas plants. (JDH)

• Research Organization: History Associates, Inc., Rockville, MD (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC08-87NV10594
• OSTI ID: 5745137
• Report Number(s): DOE/NV/10594-H1; ON: DE88003237
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Portions of this document are illegible in microfiche products. Original copy available until stock is exhausted
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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