Knoxville News Sentinel Reports on: Spin Masters: Oak Ridge's vast knowledge of centrifuge technology helps enrich U.S. energy company

Oak Ridge is an amazing city with amazing people. Today the Knoxville News Sentinel reports on some incredible technology developed in Oak Ridge.

Spin Masters: Oak Ridge's vast knowledge of centrifuge technology helps enrich U.S. energy company

The lone American company in the uranium-enrichment business is betting its future on a 50-year-old technology developed in Oak Ridge.In support of its multibillion-dollar American Centrifuge Plant, under construction in Ohio, USEC Inc. is tapping some of the same Atomic City expertise that helped develop the centrifuge program, hiring Oak Ridge National Laboratory retirees and enlisting the lab in the largest cooperative research and development agreement in ORNL's history."ORNL sees this as the most important tech transfer program since Atoms for Peace," said Wayne Manges, manager of ORNL's Centrifuge Technology Program, referring to the 1950s-era effort to find peaceful uses for nuclear technology.


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