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I personally feel that S-50 should be broken out into its own article. From the prior merge discussion, it looks like folks felt there wasn't enough material on S-50 to support it broken out. However, someone (wish I had the time) really should do the research since the S-50 liquid gaseous diffusion plant was the successor to K-25 and Y-12.-- P Todd 22:03, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
I think that http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev25-34/chapter2.shtml has the straight scoop: "In August 1946, Eugene Wigner opened the Laboratories' Clinton Training School with Frederick Seitz as its director. Although Wigner envisioned it as a small postdoctoral seminar in nuclear technology, more than 50 people from the military, industry, and academia enrolled. Among the first participants were Herbert MacPherson, Sidney Siegel, John Simpson, Everitt Blizard, Douglas Billington, and Donald Stevens, all of whom subsequently became renowned for their activities in science. The most famous graduate, however, was Captain Hyman Rickover of the U.S. Navy. The Navy had first provided Wigner and Szilard funding for nuclear experiments in 1939. During the war, Navy scientists developed a thermal diffusion process for separating uranium isotopes; the S-50 plant in Oak Ridge was built during World War II for this purpose. Navy interest in using nuclear energy for ship propulsion continued, and in early 1946 Philip Abelson of the Navy research team spent several months at the Laboratory studying Wigner's approach to reactor design. In May 1946, Admiral Chester Nimitz assigned five Navy officers and three civilians to Oak Ridge. The officers were Hyman Rickover, Louis Roddis, James Dunford, Raymond Dick, and Miles Libbey." Thus, the Navy was the source of the technology used at S-50, and (as is widely known and documented around Oak Ridge) the post-war nuclear Navy had its genesis at Oak Ridge, but there is no direct connection between S-50 and the post-war nuclear Navy.
There are references for the Philip Abelson article that might be useful here and vice versa. I think also that the references here might be used to correct some confusion in the Philip Abelson article about his exact involvement with naval nuclear propulsion. I think it understates his early work while overstating (until I changed some things) his later work during the Rickover era. -- A. B. (talk) 17:14, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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Reviewer: Peacemaker67 ( talk · contribs) 07:10, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
I'll do this one. Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 07:10, 10 January 2017 (UTC)
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I personally feel that S-50 should be broken out into its own article. From the prior merge discussion, it looks like folks felt there wasn't enough material on S-50 to support it broken out. However, someone (wish I had the time) really should do the research since the S-50 liquid gaseous diffusion plant was the successor to K-25 and Y-12.-- P Todd 22:03, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
I think that http://www.ornl.gov/info/ornlreview/rev25-34/chapter2.shtml has the straight scoop: "In August 1946, Eugene Wigner opened the Laboratories' Clinton Training School with Frederick Seitz as its director. Although Wigner envisioned it as a small postdoctoral seminar in nuclear technology, more than 50 people from the military, industry, and academia enrolled. Among the first participants were Herbert MacPherson, Sidney Siegel, John Simpson, Everitt Blizard, Douglas Billington, and Donald Stevens, all of whom subsequently became renowned for their activities in science. The most famous graduate, however, was Captain Hyman Rickover of the U.S. Navy. The Navy had first provided Wigner and Szilard funding for nuclear experiments in 1939. During the war, Navy scientists developed a thermal diffusion process for separating uranium isotopes; the S-50 plant in Oak Ridge was built during World War II for this purpose. Navy interest in using nuclear energy for ship propulsion continued, and in early 1946 Philip Abelson of the Navy research team spent several months at the Laboratory studying Wigner's approach to reactor design. In May 1946, Admiral Chester Nimitz assigned five Navy officers and three civilians to Oak Ridge. The officers were Hyman Rickover, Louis Roddis, James Dunford, Raymond Dick, and Miles Libbey." Thus, the Navy was the source of the technology used at S-50, and (as is widely known and documented around Oak Ridge) the post-war nuclear Navy had its genesis at Oak Ridge, but there is no direct connection between S-50 and the post-war nuclear Navy.
There are references for the Philip Abelson article that might be useful here and vice versa. I think also that the references here might be used to correct some confusion in the Philip Abelson article about his exact involvement with naval nuclear propulsion. I think it understates his early work while overstating (until I changed some things) his later work during the Rickover era. -- A. B. (talk) 17:14, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
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I'll do this one. Peacemaker67 ( click to talk to me) 07:10, 10 January 2017 (UTC)