Talk:K-25
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[edit] Info from Y-12 article
Someone posted this info to Y-12 National Security Complex. I've never heard of K-25 being part of Y-12, so I'm moving the text here. Please incorporate it as you see fit. --Allen 01:52, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
- K-25, another building in the Y-12 Complex, was the largest building in the world when built. The people needed for the construction of the building lived near by, in a community that came to be known as Happy Valley. Built by the army in 1943, Happy Valley was a temporary community that housed 15,000 people in trailor homes. The building had 2 million squre feet of workspace and was a half mile long. It required 35 miles off electrical wire and used roughly the same amount of water needed for a city with a population of 25 million. A team of 12,000 was needed just to look for leaks in the pipes that were used in the enrichment process, which had to be air tight. The building was used to process 100 tons of uranium.
P.S. I went ahead and pasted in the two sentences about Happy Valley, since there certainly should be something about Happy Valley in the article. --Allen 01:57, 9 August 2006 (UTC)
