Nuclear army facilities

In 1946, representatives from nine major eastern universities - Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, University of Rochester, and Yale - formed a nonprofit corporation to establish a new nuclear-science facility. They chose a surplus army base way out on Long Island as the site. Brookhaven National Laboratory was established in 1947 in Upton (which was an old Army camp). 

Scott D. Elliott is manager of the Waste and Transportation Services Department for Duratek Federal Services at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, Richland, Washington. Elliott has worked in the fields of nuclear operations, training, and waste treatment for 24 years and has additional experience as a nuclear facility building emergency director. He is presently a nuclear, biological, and chemical operations instructor for the U.S. Army Reserves. 

Harry Diamond Labs. The Army has classified the Harry Diamond Laboratories at Adelphi, Maryland, as a permanent US Army installation. The facility is a corporate laboratory of the US Army Materiel Command, specializing in fuzes, fluidics, special purpose radars, nuclear weapons effects, and other research, development, and engineering for weapons systems Ref The Official Magazine of United States Army Logistics, Vol 5, No 2 (Mar-April 1973)... 

The AEC succeeded the Manhattan Engineer District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. David Lilienthal was appointed the first Chairman of the AEC. Congress gave the new civilian Commission extraordinary power and independence to carry out its mission. To provide the Commission exceptional freedom in hiring scientists and professionals, Corranission employees were exempt from the Civil Service system. Because of the need for great security, all production facilities and nuclear reactors... 

Z DIVISION. During the Manhattan Project, Site Y (the Los Alamos Laboratory, New Mexico) was the main facility for designing and producing nuclear weapons. As its work proceeded, the site became crowded with people and experiments. Laboratory space, family housing, and water were insufficient. By summer 1945, the situation was sufficiently critical that the newly designated Z Division, created to perform production engineering and final weapons assembly, was transferred physically from Los Alamos to Sandia Base, the former Oxnard Field, site of an airport outside Albuquerque, New Mexico. Earlier in 1945, this airfield had been transferred from the Army Air Corps to the Manhattan Project. Z Division became the predecessor to the present-day Sandia National Laboratory. 

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