Y-12 National Security Complex
The Y-12 National Security Complex is a nuclear facility owned by the US National Nuclear Security Administration near Oak Ridge , Tennessee .
Y-12 opened in 1943 and was used for uranium enrichment in the early years of the Manhattan Project .
On July 28, 2012, 83-year-old nun Megan Rice and two companions severed the facility's fences to demonstrate for peace. The action made it clear how inadequately the facility was guarded.
In the course of investigating the Iranian nuclear research program , US technicians reconstructed Iran's enrichment systems in the Y-12 complex . For this purpose, centrifuges were used, which Libya had delivered to the international community when it abandoned its nuclear plans, as well as specially built for this purpose according to Iranian plans. Thanks to the copy in Tennessee, during the negotiations in Switzerland , American negotiators were able to repeatedly give concrete estimates of Iran's progress as well as options for converting the Iranian facilities into civil research facilities.
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- ↑ spiegel.de May 9, 2013: Nun Megan Rice, 83, breaks into a US nuclear storage facility
- ↑ www.washingtonpost.com: The prophets of Oak Ridge
- ^ New York Times: Atomic Labs Across the US Race to Stop Iran , April 21, 2015
Coordinates: 35 ° 59 ′ 18 ″ N , 84 ° 15 ′ 17 ″ W.