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Manhattan Project website launches

Posted at 12:03 am June 28, 2014
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Atomic Heritage Foundation Manhattan Project Website

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WASHINGTON, D.C.—With prospects for a Manhattan Project National Historical Park this year looking good, the Atomic Heritage Foundation is launching a timely new website for prospective visitors to the Manhattan Project communities at www.atomicheritage.org. The new park is expected to generate 500,000 or more tourists to Oak Ridge; Los Alamos, New Mexico; and Hanford, Washington, during the next decade. As a preview of coming attractions, visitors can take a virtual tour now and immerse themselves in the Manhattan Project online.

With colorful photographs, an interactive timeline, extensive articles on Manhattan Project history, and oral histories of hundreds of Manhattan Project veterans, the new website will be an excellent resource. One feature is the powerful new interpretive tool called “Ranger in Your Pocket.” Based on a BYOD or “Bring Your Own Device” strategy, this technology-based tool represents a fundamental shift in engaging visitors by empowering them to use their personal smartphones or tablets to create their own tour experience. The first “Ranger in Your Pocket” tour is to the historic B Reactor at Hanford. Additional tours under construction will feature Los Alamos and Oak Ridge and draw from AHF’s extensive oral history collection as well as documentary footage and photographs. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, East Tennessee Technology Park, Nonprofits, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy, Y-12 National Security Complex Tagged With: AHF, atomic bomb, Atomic Heritage Foundation, Atomic Timeline, B Reactor, Cold War, Hanford, history, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, Manhattan Project National Historical Park, nuclear history, Oak Ridge, oral history, photographs, Ranger in Your Pocket, tourists, veterans, website, World War II

Roane Alliance: 2012 the ‘busiest and most productive ever’

Posted at 5:28 pm February 23, 2013
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

The Roane Alliance has released its most recent annual report, and it called 2012 the “busiest and most productive year ever.”

Roane Alliance officials said they will remember 2012 as the year of the Volkswagen Distribution Center project.

But it was also a year of many other accomplishments, said Alliance President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Henderson.

[Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, Roane County, Top Stories Tagged With: 2012 Annual Report, annual report, Education Matters, Leslie Henderson, per capita income, recovery, retail jobs, Roane Alliance, Roane County Chamber of Commerce, Roane County Visitors Bureau, the Roane County Industrial Development Board, tourists, unemployment rate, Volkswagen Distribution Center

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