Capabilities and Best Manufacturing Practices Data Sheets

Oak Ridge, TN: Oak Ridge Y-12 Site, n.d.. Glossy pictorial cover. very good condition. approximately 50 pages, wraps (heavy, shiny stock), oversized (11-1/2" wide by 8-1/2" high), tabbed, color illus. (copies of power point slides), small creases to cover corners Topics covered include manufacturing, research and development, design engineering, quality determination, support systems, and computing and telecommunications. On the back of each copy of a power point slide is a detailed explanation--what the presenter would have said to explain or amplify the information on the slide.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. It was built as part of the Manhattan Project for the purpose of enriching uranium for the first atomic bombs. In the years after World War II, it has been operated as a manufacturing facility for nuclear weapons components and related defense purposes. Y-12 is managed and operated under contract by Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC (CNS), which is composed of member companies Bechtel National, Inc., Lockheed Martin Services, Inc., ATK Launch Systems, Inc., and SOC LLC, with Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc. as a teaming subcontractor. CNS also operates Pantex Plant in Texas. Y-12 is the World War II code name for the electromagnetic isotope separation plant producing enriched uranium at the Clinton Engineer Works in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, as part of the Manhattan Project. Construction began in February 1943 under the management of Stone and Webster. The Y-12 facility began operating in November 1943, separating uranium-235 from natural uranium, which is 99.3% uranium-238, by using calutrons to perform electromagneticisotope separation. Y-12 separated the uranium-235 forLittle Boy, the nuclear weapons that was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945. K-25, another facility in Oak Ridge, produced enriched uranium using gaseous diffusion. However, K-25 did not begin operating until March 1945 and fed slightly enriched uranium to Y-12's Beta Calutrons as the push to obtain enough uranium 235 for Little Boy came in the early summer of 1945. The S-50 Thermal Diffusion Plant at the K-25 site also provided feed material for Y-12's Beta Calutrons.