City of Oak Ridge
City of Oak Ridge is a locality in Anderson, Tennessee. City of Oak Ridge is situated nearby to the neighborhood Oak Hills Estates, as well as near the hamlet Robertsville.Places of Interest
Highlights include Spallation Neutron Source and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
Spallation Neutron Source
Research institute
The Spallation Neutron Source is an accelerator-based neutron source facility in the U.S. that provides the most intense pulsed neutron beams in the world for scientific research and industrial development.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
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Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1943, the laboratory is sponsored by the United States Department of Energy and administered by UT–Battelle, LLC. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is situated 2½ miles south of City of Oak Ridge.
Multiprogram Research Facility
Office
The Multiprogram Research Facility is a facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It is used by the U.S. National Security Agency to design and build supercomputers for cryptanalysis and other classified projects. Multiprogram Research Facility is situated 2½ miles southwest of City of Oak Ridge.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oak Ridge and Robertsville.
Oak Ridge
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Oak Ridge is a city in Tennessee. Oak Ridge was created as secret city during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project. In Oak Ridge, thousands worked in secrecy to enrich the uranium used in the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
Robertsville
Hamlet
Robertsville was a farming community in Anderson County, Tennessee, that was disbanded in 1942 when the area was acquired for the Manhattan Project. Its site is now part of the city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Robertsville is situated 3½ miles north of City of Oak Ridge.
City of Oak Ridge
- Type: Locality with 29,300 residents
- Location: Anderson, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
35.9639° or 35° 57′ 50″ northLongitude
-84.2938° or 84° 17′ 38″ westPopulation
29,300Elevation
915 feet (279 metres)Open location code
867QXP74+HFGeoNames ID
7169986
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