Oak Ridge

noun

1. a city in E Tennessee, near Knoxville: atomic research center.

Oak Ridge

1. A city in Tennessee , where uranium for the atomic bomb (see also atomic bomb ) was produced during World War II . Since that time, the government has maintained a variety of nuclear research facilities in Oak Ridge. ( See also Manhattan Project .)

Example Sentences

Yarmak says the hardest part of the Oak Ridge project was keeping workers safe and preventing the spread of nuclear contamination.

From The Daily Beast

There are other sites in America with long nuclear histories—places like Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, Yucca Mountain.

From The Daily Beast

At the Oak Ridge Gun Range, also in Orlando, a class for concealed-carry applications runs three hours and includes a video.

From The Daily Beast

Meanwhile, another team at Oak Ridge National Laboratory has announced plans to build a machine of comparable power.

From The Daily Beast

Larry grew a full beard, but that was a smidge too country—“I looked like an Oak Ridge Boy”—so he pruned it down into a goatee.

From The Daily Beast

He had seen the plant at Oak Ridge where uranium was extracted by the gas diffusion method.

From Project Gutenberg

Element 61 was made for the first time from the fission disintegration products of uranium in the Clinton (Oak Ridge) reactor.

From Project Gutenberg

Milligrams of it, shipped from Oak Ridge for scientific use, were encased in thick lead chests.

From Project Gutenberg

I picked this one six miles up on White Oak Ridge yesterday.

From Project Gutenberg

Elsli spent all her time out of school at Oak-ridge, and was very happy in her work.

From Project Gutenberg