Tennesse uranium stockpile on fuç(<|ng fire now
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Oak Ridge the the Orignal (as in literally the very first) nuclear facility in the world. It's where the Atom Bomb was designed and built during WW II. It's only been built onto and updated since then, because the town is basically sitting on top of a giant slab of granite that acts as a natural barrier to any kind of radiation leaks if an accident were to happen.
I knew about Oak Ridge. I was just confused as to why there was still a stockpile there so long after the war. But that would make sense if the area is naturally suited to containing radiation
Not to mention all of that cheap power needed to refine the uranium, courtesy of the TVA.