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Coors, the beer brewer, honored for Manhattan Project work on Y-12 ceramic insulators

Posted at 11:26 am December 14, 2016
By John Huotari Leave a Comment

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From left to right standing are Colin Colverson, Oak Ridge Site Representative and Office of General Counsel; Padraic Benson, historian, Office of Legacy Management; Tracy Atkins, Principal Representative Manhattan Project National Historical Park, Office of Legacy Management; and Thomas Pauling, Acting Director, Office of Legacy Management. Seated in front is Bill Coors. (Photo courtesy DOE Office of Legacy Management)

 

William Kistler “Bill” Coors is best known for the beer brewed in the Rocky Mountains, but he was honored by federal officials this month for his historic work building ceramic insulators that were used in Oak Ridge to help build the world’s first atomic bombs.

On December 2, Coors received the Energy Secretary’s Appreciation Award in Golden, Colorado, which is west of Denver and at the base of the Rocky Mountains.

The award was presented by U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management Acting Director Thomas Pauling. It recognizes Coors’ historic role in providing critical insulators to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Manhattan Engineer District, also known as the Manhattan Project, during World War II, a press release said. The Manhattan Project was a top-secret federal program to build the world’s first atomic weapons during the war—before Germany could.

The ceramic insulators were used in uranium enrichment operations at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, which was built as part of the Manhattan Project. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Business, Federal, Government, Top Stories, U.S. Department of Energy, Y-12 National Security Complex Tagged With: atomic bombs, atomic weapons, Berkeley Lawrence Radiation Laboratory, calutrons, ceramic insulators, Coors Porcelain Company, Energy Secretary's Appreciation Award, Fat Man, Hiroshima, Japan, Leslie Groves, Little Boy, Los Alamos, Manhattan Engineer District, Manhattan Project, Nagasaki, Richard Condit, Thomas Pauling, U.S. Armed Forces, U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management, uranium enrichment, uranium-235, William Kistler "Bill" Coors, World War II, Y-12 Plant

Veterans/Armistice Day observed on Wednesday at Civic Center

Posted at 5:08 pm November 8, 2015
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A Veterans/Armistice Day observance will be held on Wednesday, November 11, at 11 a.m. in Meeting Rooms A/B in the Oak Ridge Civic Center. Veterans and members of the public are invited to attend the program, which will feature music, reflections, and poetry to celebrate peace and to honor those who have served our country in the military.

If you were born after 1960, there is a good chance you don’t know that November 11 is Armistice Day, as well as Veterans Day. Armistice Day celebrates the coming of peace at the end of World War I, once optimistically referred to as “The War To End All Wars.” It became an official U.S. holiday in 1926 and is still celebrated in Europe at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month to commemorate the signing of the armistice at that moment in 1918.

Veterans Day was established as a U.S. holiday by President Dwight Eisenhower in 1954 to honor all those who had served in the U.S. Armed Forces. Ever since, Armistice Day has been overshadowed in the U.S. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Community, Federal, Front Page News, Government, Meetings and Events Tagged With: Armistice Day, Charlotte Bowers, Democracy for East Tennessee, DFET, Don Morris, Dwight Eisenhower, Joan Cassens, Kern Memorial Methodist Church, Oak Ridge Civic Center, Tom Burns, U.S. Armed Forces, Veterans Day, World War I

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Public Notice: Comment period extended for Draft EA for Lithium Processing Facility at Y-12

EXTENSION OF THE COMMENT PERIOD FOR THE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE LITHIUM PROCESSING … [Read More...]

Public Notice: Draft Environmental Assessment Available for Lithium Production Facility at Y-12

AVAILABILITY OF THE DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE LITHIUM PROCESSING FACILITY AT THE Y-12 … [Read More...]

Availability of the Final Environmental Assessment for the Oak Ridge Enhanced Technology and Training Center (ORETTC) (DOE/EA-2144), Finding of No Significant Impact, and Wetland Statement of Findings

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announces the … [Read More...]

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