MANHATTAN PROJECT
Manhattan Project History in October
NPS and DOI | 10/9/2020
DuPont was put in charge of the plutonium production project in October of 1942.
Once considered to be a potential uranium separation method,centrifuge separation was abandoned in October 1942 due to technical problems.
On October 15, 1942 J. Robert Oppenheimer was asked to head Project Y,later know as Los Alamos scientific research laboratory.
The first Alpha racetrack was completed in October 1943 but fails to start due to unforeseen shorts in the magnets.
Hanford B Reactor site preparation began on October 10, 1943.
Construction of the X-10 Graphite Reactor was completed on October 31,1943 and goes critical for the first time in the early hours of the morning a few days later.
J. Robert Oppenheimer accepted a position at CalTech and resigned as director of Los Alamos Laboratory on October 16, 1945 and Norris Bradbury becomes the director for the next 25 years.
As a way to visually capture the recent photography exhibit in the K25 History Museum Changing Gallery, Explore Oak Ridge partnered with the Department of Energy and the National Park Service to create a video titled “In the Days of Mud”
