The American Nuclear Society has approved ETTP Heritage Center as a “Nuclear Historic Landmark.” This designation honors both the site’s rich history and its transformation thanks to UCOR’s cleanup success at the former uranium enrichment plant. This is exciting news for our community as well as the UCOR team, which has successfully transformed this site into a thriving nuclear innovation hub—ushering in Manhattan Project 2.0.
ANS will provide a bronze plaque to be displayed at ETTP that reads:
The former Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant (K-25)—now the East Tennessee Technology Park—is a once-contaminated government site which played a key role in development of the first atomic bomb. It is now a clean, vibrant hub of innovation that is leading today’s renaissance of nuclear energy.
The Nuclear Historic Landmark Award memorializes sites or facilities where outstanding physical accomplishments took place that were instrumental in the advancement and implementation of nuclear technology and the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. K-25 now takes its rightful place alongside Manhattan Project National Historical Park facilities that have received this honor: the B Reactor at Hanford and the Oak Ridge Graphite Reactor at ORNL. Congratulations, Team UCOR!
