Author: United States. Department of Energy. Office of Nuclear Materials ProductionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear facilities
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
L-reactor Operation, Savannah River Plant, Aiken, S.C.
Author: United States. Department of Energy. Office of Nuclear Materials ProductionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear facilities
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
New Tritium Production Reactor Capacity Facilities, Siting, Construction and Operation
Author: Linking Legacies
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cleanup of radioactive waste sites
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Cold War Dixie
Author: Kari FredericksonPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820345199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Focusing on the impact of the Savannah River Plant (SRP) on the communities it created, rejuvenated, or displaced, this book explores the parallel militarization and modernization of the Cold War-era South. The SRP, a scientific and industrial complex near Aiken, South Carolina, grew out of a 1950 partnership between the Atomic Energy Commission and the DuPont Corporation and was dedicated to producing materials for the hydrogen bomb. Kari Frederickson shows how the needs of the expanding national security state, in combination with the corporate culture of DuPont, transformed the economy, landscape, social relations, and politics of this corner of the South. In 1950, the area comprising the SRP and its surrounding communities was primarily poor, uneducated, rural, and staunchly Democratic; by the mid-1960s, it boasted the most PhDs per capita in the state and had become increasingly middle class, suburban, and Republican. The SRP's story is notably dramatic; however, Frederickson argues, it is far from unique. The influx of new money, new workers, and new business practices stemming from Cold War-era federal initiatives helped drive the emergence of the Sunbelt. These factors also shaped local race relations. In the case of the SRP, DuPont's deeply conservative ethos blunted opportunities for social change, but it also helped contain the radical white backlash that was so prominent in places like the Mississippi Delta that received less Cold War investment.
The First Reactor
Author: United States. Energy Research and Development AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nuclear physics
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Plutonium, Deadly Gold of the Nuclear Age
Author: Howard HuProgrammatic National Spent Nuclear Fuel Management Program and Idaho National Engineering Laboratory Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Program (ID,CA,WA,NV)
Author: Hanford Site, Process Facility Modifications Project
Author: Environmental Consequences of the Proposed Restart of the L-reactor at the Savannah River Plant, Aiken, S.C.
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed ServicesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
The Unexpected Exodus
Author: Louise CasselsPublisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN: 9781570037092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
In late 1950, amid escalating cold-war tensions, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission announced plans to construct facilities to produce plutonium and tritium for use in hydrogen bombs. One such facility, the Savannah River Plant, was built at a cost of $1.3 billion at a site that encompassed more than 315 square miles in South Carolina's Barnwell, Allendale, and Aiken counties. Some fifteen hundred families residing in small communities within the new plant's borders were forced to leave their homes. The largest of the affected towns was Ellenton, in Aiken County, with a population of 760 residents. Detailing the period of evacuation and resettlement from 1950 to 1952, The Unexpected Exodus recalls in words and pictures the dramatic personal consequences of the cold war on the American South through the narrative of one uprooted family. Louise Cassels touches on such enduring historical themes as southerners' sense of place and antipathy toward the federal government as she struggles to maintain equilibrium through life-changing circumstances. Throughout the text her extreme pride and patriotism are set against profound feelings of bitterness and loss.