Happy Valley, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
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Happy Valley was a construction camp of trailer homes and hutments at the Clinton Engineer Works
of the Manhattan Project
in the 1940s. It was located near the K-25
gaseous diffusion plant in Oak Ridge
, Tennessee
, to lessen travelling time for the seventeen thousand construction men working there.
The Happy Valley settlement was dismantled in the early 1950s.
Clinton Engineer Works
The Clinton Engineer Works was the Army name for the Manhattan Project production facility in World War II for enriched uranium used in the Little Boy atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in 1945, and would have produced enough enriched uranium for a second Little Boy gun-type bomb by December 1945...
of the Manhattan Project
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a research and development program, led by the United States with participation from the United Kingdom and Canada, that produced the first atomic bomb during World War II. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the US Army...
in the 1940s. It was located near the K-25
K-25
K-25 is a former uranium enrichment facility of the Manhattan Project which used the gaseous diffusion method. The plant is located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on the southwestern end of the Oak Ridge Reservation.-History:...
gaseous diffusion plant in Oak Ridge
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Oak Ridge is a city in Anderson and Roane counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee, about west of Knoxville. Oak Ridge's population was 27,387 at the 2000 census...
, Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...
, to lessen travelling time for the seventeen thousand construction men working there.
The Happy Valley settlement was dismantled in the early 1950s.