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A Secret City With a Secret African American History via The New York Times

The U.S. government built Oak Ridge in 1942 to develop the world’s first atomic weapon. By Casey Quackenbush June 11, 2022 When a reported 7,000 African Americans from the Deep South were recruited to work on the Manhattan Project starting in 1942, they … Continue reading

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Sister Megan Rice, Fierce Critic of U.S. Nuclear Arsenal, Dies at 91 via New York Times

Sister Megan Rice, a Roman Catholic nun who was arrested more than 40 times for protesting America’s military industrial complex, most spectacularly for breaking into one of the world’s largest uranium storage sites, died on Oct. 10 at the residence … Continue reading

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Contaminated Molten Salt Reactor Experiment may be entombed in concrete via Knox News

Part of the contaminated site of Oak Ridge’s old Molten Salt Reactor Experiment may be entombed in concrete, according to Jay Mullis, manager for the Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management.  […] Part of the contaminated site of Oak Ridge’s … Continue reading

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Make Love Not Bombs via Knoxville Mercury

About a dozen peace seekers carried homemade signs and even broke out an acoustic guitar in front of the John J. Duncan Federal Building in downtown Knoxville today to protest the federal funding of a uranium processing plant being built … Continue reading

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Ailing nuclear workers: Relying on Jesus and morphine via The Charlotte Observer

[…] After working 17 years at the Savannah River nuclear weapons plant, just across the Georgia state line in South Carolina, Smitty found out on Sept. 11, 2008, 10 years after he retired, that he had multiple myeloma, a cancer. … Continue reading

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Appeals Court upholds dismissal of lawsuit over X-ray room flaw via Knoxville News Sentinel

OAK RIDGE — Even if a special room for X-rays and CT scans at Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge’s new emergency room area lacked a lead-lined section in one wall, complaints by hospital workers alleging excessive radiation exposure were … Continue reading

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Imprisoned Nuclear Activist Nun Granted Victory On Appeal via NPR

From the moment she was taken into custody in 2012, outside a building that stores enriched uranium in Oak Ridge, Tenn., Sister Megan Rice has argued she’s been driven by one thing — a desire to spread a message. “And … Continue reading

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Nun’s sabotage conviction for nuclear facility break-in overturned by court via The Guardian

An appeals court has overturned the sabotage convictions of an 85-year-old nun and two fellow peace activists who broke into a facility storing much of this country’s bomb-grade uranium and painted slogans and splashed blood on the walls. In a … Continue reading

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Why We Should Preserve the History of the Manhattan Project via Huffpost

The Manhattan Project, the secret research mission to develop an atomic weapon ahead of Germany and bring an end to World War II, was one of the 20th century’s most ambitious feats of science and engineering. And, it also proved … Continue reading

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U.S. Ramping Up Major Renewal in Nuclear Arms via The New York Times

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A sprawling new plant here in a former soybean field makes the mechanical guts of America’s atomic warheads. Bigger than the Pentagon, full of futuristic gear and thousands of workers, the plant, dedicated last month, modernizes … Continue reading

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