Clinton Engineer Works

Oak Ridge, Tennessee, known as Site X, which become home to the Headquarters, MED, as well as the Clinton Engineering Works, where uranium was enriched for use in weapons. 

Stanley G. Thompson joined my group on October 1, 1942 and it fell to his lot to discover the process that was chosen for use at Clinton Laboratories (in Tennessee) and the Hanford Engineer Works (in the state of Washington) for the separation of plutonium from uranium and the immense intensity of radioactive fission products with which it was produced in the nuclear chain reactors. Again I turn to my journal to tell the story ... 

In 1999, two American biochemical engineers with experience in microbial enzymology and genetics, both in the academic and the industrial world, Gerngross and Slater [62], were delighted with an executive order issued by former President Clinton. The order insisted that researchers should work toward replacing fossil resources with plant material both as raw material and fuel. Both men had a lot of experience in growing plastic in plants. This sounds like fiction, but it is not. Their dreams seemed to come true because... 

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