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alpha calutron tank

Image File ORO_Y-12-137

Title alpha calutron tank

Description The "C" shaped alpha calutron tank, together with its emitters and collectors on the lower-edge door, was removed in a special "drydock" from the magnet for recovery of uranium-235. Photo by government photographer Ed Westcott.

Citation Caption LBL News, Vol.6, No.3, Fall 1981 | The "C" shaped alpha calutron tank, together with its emitters and collectors on the lower-edge door, was removed in a special "drydock" from the magnet for recovery of uranium-235.

From the caption in Oak Ridge, by Ed Westcott, Arcadia Publishing, 2005 (page 17): D-Unit Loading Operation. Loading handlers are using a loading dolly to install a calutron. Calutrons were referred to as "D-Units" during the war, not as calutrons.

Equipment alpha calutron tank

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