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Title:
Manhattan District History; Book I - General; Volume 4 - Auxiliary Activities; Chapter 9 - Assistance On The Canadian Pile Project; Chapter 10 - The Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies
Subject Terms:
Manhattan District History
Document Location:
DOE Historian, Office of History and Heritage Resources, Germantown, MD
Document Type:
BOOK
Publication Date:
1945 Dec 31
Declassification Date:
1979 Nov 23
Declassification Status:
Declassified
Document Pages:
48 pages
Accession Number:
MEDBook1Vol4Ch9a10
Originating Research Org.:
Atomic Energy Commission
OpenNet Entry Date:
2014 Apr 24
OpenNet Modified Date:
2014 Apr 23
Description/Abstract:
Chapter 9: The early beginning of the Canadian Pile Project is recorded briefly in the document which was issued in Great Britain, a few days after the bombing of Hiroshima, under the title -- Statement by the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Issued August 12, 1945.
Chapter 10: Important factors at Clinton Engineer Works in securing and retaining trained scientific and technical personnel has been the unique and specialized research equipment and facilities, and the opportunities there for learning new fundamental scientific techniques and for working with highly skilled specialists in various fields of nuclear science.