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1944 June 18

1944 June 18

General Leslie Groves contracts to have the S-50 Plant, intended for liquid thermal diffusion uranium enrichment, built at Oak Ridge, TN in no more than three months.

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S-50 process building.
Date Range: 
1944CE Jun 18th
Era: 
1944: Developing the Bomb