Will K-25 preservation project live up to promise?

Marlin · Feb 15, 2015, 11:36

Will K-25 preservation project live up to promise?

http://knoxblogs.com/atomiccity/2015/02/13/will-k-25-preservation-project-live-promise/#more-32697

Mounder · Mar 05, 2015, 09:25

Why bother. K-25 has no more legacy for GDP than Paducah and Portsmouth and their facilities are both being completely leveled. I'd say Rocky Flats and the Mound had more interesting histories and all you have is some off-site bare-bones museums at both sites. K-25 will have the same meet & greet history shack at the front entrance when it's all over.

DLGN25 · Mar 12, 2015, 01:58

A place few, a very few care about. Take some photos and be done with it.

Marlin · Mar 12, 2015, 12:19

Quote from: Mounder on Mar 05, 2015, 09:25
Why bother. K-25 has no more legacy for GDP than Paducah and Portsmouth and their facilities are both being completely leveled. I'd say Rocky Flats and the Mound had more interesting histories and all you have is some off-site bare-bones museums at both sites. K-25 will have the same meet & greet history shack at the front entrance when it's all over.

Quote from: DLGN25 on Mar 12, 2015, 01:58
A place few, a very few care about. Take some photos and be done with it.

K-25 itself probably will not be preserved but the site may have small museum not that there are not other museums in Oak Ridge. The Graphite Reactor at ORNL (X-10) is open to the public and the American Museum of Science and Energy (AMSE) has large areas dedicated to Oak Ridge and the Manhattan Project. Most recently congress has authorized the Manhattan Project National Historical Park including Oak Ridge Tennessee, Los Alamos New Mexico, and Hanford Washington. In Oak Ridge the AMSE will probably be the hub but K 25 the site not K 25 the building will have some kind of memorial inside the East Tennessee Technology Park K-25s new name.

Mounder · Mar 12, 2015, 09:10

That sounds about right. Oak Ridge has plenty of active DOE sites and a museum to cover all OR historical locations makes more sense than something focused on K25.

Laundry Man · Mar 13, 2015, 09:11

For a different take on Oak Ridge, try read the Girls of Atomic City. Good read.
LM

bramwell · Mar 17, 2015, 04:41

I guess if there is no shortage in funding then the preservation will live.