Oak Ridge Manhattan Project
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The Women’s History Hidden in America’s Nuclear Past
(Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images) The Women's History Hidden in America's Nuclear Past: Calutron operators at their panels, in the Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge during World War II. 1944. The calutrons were used to refine uranium ore into fissile material. During the Manhattan Project effort to construct an atomic explosive, workers toiled in secrecy, with no idea to what end their labors were directed.