AT WORK IN THE FIELDS OF THE BOMB - Twill

The Back End of the Ashtabula Press
A worker waits for an extrusion of uranium metal to exit from the press.
Back to Fernald
Ashtabula returns uranium metal, in the form of long tubes, to Fernald. A worker stands by while
a blanking machine cuts the metal into 14-inch segments, each weighing 28 pounds.
These are Fernald’s top product: Mark 31 Target Element Cores. They are called target
element cores because at Department of Energy reactors elsewhere they will be bombarded
with neutrons and transformed into weapons-grade plutonium.
Feed Materials Production Center, Fernald, Ohio. December 17, 1985.
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