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    Oak Ridge is a city in Anderson and Roane counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee, about 25 miles (40 km) west of downtown Knoxville...
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  • Oak Ridge or Oakridge may refer to numerous locations in English-speaking countries - the most well-known being Oak Ridge, Tennessee, due to its part in...
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  • 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...
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    Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is a federally funded research and development center in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1943, the...
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    The Oak Ridge Boys are an American country and gospel vocal quartet originating in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Since 2024, the group consists of Duane Allen...
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  • Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) is a consortium of American universities headquartered in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, with offices in Arvada, Colorado...
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    Y-12 National Security Complex (category Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
    National Nuclear Security Administration facility located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It was built as part of the Manhattan...
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    K-25 (redirect from Oak Ridge K-25 Plant)
    the production facility located at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the main gaseous diffusion building, and ultimately the site. When...
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    notable for illegally entering the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, at the age of 82, with two fellow activists of the Transform Now...
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    The Oak Ridger is an American daily newspaper published Mondays through Fridays in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It is owned by Gannett. Its editor and publisher...
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  • of radiation exposure and environmental contamination. Located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, ORISE was established in 1992 to support DOE's mission by prepare...
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  • Main Street Oak Ridge, formerly known as Oak Ridge City Center and Oak Ridge Mall, is a mixed-use development in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. It was formerly...
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  • Oak Ridge nuclear facility may refer to one of several active or historical U.S. federal government facilities in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, including: Clinton...
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    Teen Choice Awards. Megan Denise Fox was born on May 16, 1986, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to parents Gloria Darlene (née Cisson) and Franklin Thomas Fox....
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  • located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Under its former name of the National Leadership Computing Facility, the OLCF was founded in 1992 at Oak Ridge National...
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  • tradition that started with Carol Aebersold when she was a child, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and which she later carried on with her twin daughters, Chanda Bell...
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    the uranium production facility at the Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the plutonium production facility at Hanford Engineer Works...
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    Elaine Hendrix (category People from Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
    film What the Bleep Do We Know!? Hendrix was born and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Her father was serving in the Vietnam War at the time of her birth...
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  • Bechtel Jacobs (category Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
    government properties in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. Bechtel Jacobs was established as the environmental management contractor for DOE's Oak Ridge operations (including...
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    Bethel Baptist Church is a historic church on Bethel Valley Road in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The church was built in about 1900. One of the concrete steps that...
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    the 1940s. It was located near the K-25 gaseous diffusion plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to lessen travelling time for the seventeen thousand construction...
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  • Mitch Rouse (category People from Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
    Factory. Rouse was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, and raised in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He played football at Oak Ridge High School, where he graduated in 1983...
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    The Children's Museum of Oak Ridge (abbreviated as CMOR) is a non-profit children's museum in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States, that provides museum...
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    Ed Westcott (category Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
    government in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, during the Manhattan Project and the Cold War. As one of the few people permitted to have a camera in the Oak Ridge area during...
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    American Museum of Science and Energy (category Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
    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...
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    William G. Pollard (category People from Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
    professor of physics in 1936 at the University of Tennessee. In 1946 he championed the organization of the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies (ORINS). He was...
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    cyclotron. A huge electromagnetic separation plant was built at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, which came to be called Y-12. The process was inefficient, but it...
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    The United Church, Chapel on the Hill in Oak Ridge, Tennessee was the city's main church during World War II. Dedicated on September 30, 1943, and completed...
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  • At southern research facilities like Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, segregation and discriminatory policies were strictly enforced....
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    Burwell B. Bell III (category People from Oak Ridge, Tennessee)
    in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, the son of Burwell B. Bell Jr. His father was a West Point graduate who worked in government nuclear facilities at Oak Ridge. Bell...
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