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- For these expenses and efforts, the Manhattan Project received all the polonium necessary for initiator production. Having met its wartime goals, the Dayton Project began work on a permanent production facility to allow efficient polonium production in the postwar world.
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By 1945, the Dayton Project had assumed such importance that the Manhattan Project decided to make it into a permanent facility. The original intention was to move operations to Oak Ridge, but it was decided that a site near Dayton was preferable.
Having met its wartime goals, the Dayton Project began work on a permanent production facility to allow efficient polonium production in the postwar world. For more information about Dayton and its results after 1945, follow the link below to Dayton after 1945 .
The Dayton Project. Beginning in 1943, Monsanto used its Central Research facilities at 1515 Nicholas Road to organize the Polonium project and recruit scientific personnel for the program. The facility was subsequently designated as Dayton Unit I.
A new 40'x100' building built around Runnymeade Playhouse in December 1945 housed "urchin" production throughout the search for a permanent facility. For security reasons, planners decided early on to build the facility underground.
Jan 24, 2024 · From 1946 to 1948 after the initial development of the bomb, the Monsanto Company leased the building’s three upper floors, coined it the “Warehouse” and created a laboratory to test the biological...
The A E C wanted a permanent site to continue the work of the Dayton Project. The plant was to be an underground structure, secure against a 2,000-pound armor-piercing, jet-assisted bomb and protected against biological and chemical warfare.
Jul 24, 2011 · History. The Dayton area supported secret operations for the War Department during World War II. Known only as the Dayton Project, extensive chemical and metallurgical research had been done...
