What was once the site of uranium enrichment facilities used for the Manhattan Project is now set to become the site of the world’s first mass-produced nuclear reactor.
California nuclear startup Radiant Industries announced on Monday that it would be building its first factory to mass produce micro-reactors in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, encompassing parts of two historic Manhattan Project sites.
The sites, K-27 and K-29, were home to 1940s uranium enrichment buildings that were a part of the Oak Ridge Gaseous Diffusion Plant — one of several facilities across the country that were used to help advance the development of the world’s first atomic bombs.
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The Tennessee facility stopped production in the late 1980s, and the K-27 and K-29 sites were demolished in 2016 and 2006,
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