Y-12 National Security Complex
The Y-12 National Security Complex is a United States Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration facility located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include American Museum of Science and Energy and Oak Ridge High School.
American Museum of Science and Energy
Museum
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The American Museum of Science and Energy is a science museum in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, designed to teach children and adults about energy, especially nuclear power, and to document the role Oak Ridge played in the Manhattan Project. American Museum of Science and Energy is situated 2 miles north of Y-12 National Security Complex.
Oak Ridge High School
School
Oak Ridge High School is the public high school for Oak Ridge, Tennessee, enrolling grades 9 through 12. It was established in 1943 to educate the children of Manhattan Project workers. Oak Ridge High School is situated 2 miles north of Y-12 National Security Complex.
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 2 miles northwest of Y-12 National Security Complex.
Solway
Suburb
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Solway is an unincorporated community in Knox County, Tennessee, United States. The United States Geographic Names System classifies Solway as a populated place. Solway is situated 4½ miles east of Y-12 National Security Complex.
Y-12 National Security Complex
- Type: Atomic center
- Description: US Department of Energy facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
- Categories: facility and Superfund site
- Location: Anderson, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Y-12 National Security Complex” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مجمع الأمن القومي Y-12”
- Chinese: “Y-12国家安全大楼”
- Chinese: “Y-12國家安全大樓”
- Chinese: “橡树岭国家实验室”
- French: “Y-12 National Security Complex”
- German: “Y-12 National Security Complex”
- Indonesian: “Y-12 National Security Complex”
- Italian: “Oak Ridge National Laboratory”
- Japanese: “Y-12国家安全保障複合施設”
- Japanese: “Y-12国立保安施設”
- Latvian: “Y-12 Nacionālais Drošības komplekss”
- Latvian: “Y-12 National Security Complex”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Y-12 National Security Complex”
- Norwegian: “Y-12 National Security Complex”
- Portuguese: “Y-12 National Security Complex”
- Russian: “Центр национальной безопасности Y-12”
- Spanish: “Complejo de Seguridad Nacional Y-12”
- Spanish: “Laboratorio Nacional Oak Ridge”
- Swedish: “Y-12 National Security Complex”
- Turkish: “Y-12 Ulusal Güvenlik Kompleksi”
- Ukrainian: “Комплекс національної безпеки Y-12”
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