Image courtesy DOE Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management
The public is invited to walk through the future home of the K-25 History Center on Thursday, October 19.
The K-25 History Center will be built on the second floor of Oak Ridge’s Fire Station Number 4. The fire station is at East Tennessee Technology Park, the former K-25 site in west Oak Ridge.
The public walk-through is scheduled from 2-4 p.m. October 19.
The K-25 History Center is expected to help preserve the history of the World War II-era Manhattan Project. Oak Ridge was built during that top-secret project to help build the world’s first atomic weapons.
K-25 was one of three major federal sites built in the city that is now Oak Ridge as part of the Manhattan Project. [Read more…]
