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Y-12 Two Hundred Grams Daily Output

United States of America · Science / Technology. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1945

Ernest Orlando LawrenceJanuary 1945

Oak Ridge · Science / Technology

Y-12 production rises to roughly 204 grams per day of uranium enriched to about eighty percent uranium-235.

Names involved

Ernest Orlando Lawrence

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