Y-12 National Security Complex

For other uses, see Y-12 (disambiguation).

Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

The Y-12 National Security Complex is a United States Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration facility located in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. It was built as part of the Manhattan Project for the purpose of enriching uranium for the first atomic bombs.[1] In the years after World War II, it has been operated as a manufacturing facility for nuclear weapons components.

Y-12 is managed and operated under contract by Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS), which is composed of member companies Bechtel, Leidos, Orbital ATK, and SOC, with Booz Allen Hamilton as a teaming subcontractor.[2] CNS also operates the Pantex in Texas, the primary United States nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility.[3]

  1. ^ "A Visit to the Secret Town in Tennessee That Gave Birth to the Atomic Bomb". New Republic. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
  2. ^ "About". CNS – Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC. Retrieved September 9, 2017.
  3. ^ "The CNS team – key leadership". Archived from the original on September 10, 2014. Retrieved September 20, 2014.