The Department in a ceremony at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, attended by representatives of federal, state, and local historic preservation groups, announces the formal completion of a memorandum of agreement that will preserve the historic contributions of Oak Ridge’s K-25 site to the World War II Manhattan Project. The agreement between the DOE, Tennessee State Historic Preservation, Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, City of Oak Ridge, East Tennessee Preservation Alliance and other consulting parties has been under negotiation for nearly a decade. The K-25 complex, which produced the uranium-235 used in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, was closed in 1987. The original buildings are in the process of being demolished by DOE as part of the largest environmental remediation project in Tennessee’s history.
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