A reunion planned for April 25 will for the third time reunite dedicated workers who staffed what was once the biggest building on the planet and a crucial piece of Manhattan Project and Cold War history.
Organizers hope the spring reunion of K-25 gaseous diffusion plant workers cements a new tradition and keeps alive a history that shaped Oak Ridge, East Tennessee and the world.
The K-25 plant, built during World War II, provided the fuel for the first of two atomic bombs dropped on Japan in 1945. After World War II ended, the plant also produced highly enriched uranium amid the Cold War. It shut permanently in the 1980s. But people worked at the site for decades amid a decades-long clean-up effort…