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Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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Stock #:293378
Type: Postcard
Era: Continental Chrome
City: Oak Ridge
State: Tennessee (TN)
County: Roane,Anderson
Publisher: Stonecraft
Size: 4.25" x 6" (11 x 15.25 cm)

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One of three large US Department of Energy facilities at Oak Ridge, Tenn., 20 miles west of Knoxville, is Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Known as the X-10 Plant when Oak Ridge was built during World War II, it was site of the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor. ORNL earned a reputation for excellence in development of nuclear reactor technology and a pioneer program for production of radioisotopes, widely used in medicine, agriculture, industry, and research

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