Happy Valley, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

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Aerial view of the K-25 site circa 1945, showing Happy Valley in the foreground

Happy Valley was a construction camp of trailer homes and hutments at the Clinton Engineer Works of the Manhattan Project in the 1940s. It was located near the K-25 gaseous diffusion plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to lessen travelling time for the seventeen thousand construction men working there.[1]

The Happy Valley settlement was dismantled in the early 1950s.

References

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  1. ^ Nichols, Kenneth (1987). The Road to Trinity: A Personal Account of How America’s Nuclear Policies Were Made. New York: William Morrow. p. 127. ISBN 068806910X.


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