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Previous | Home | NextApproaching the Y-12 plant. This plant was used for uranium-235 enrichment during World War II by the use of its magnetic devices called calutrons, which were mass spectrometers used for mass separations. The name comes from "Cal. U-tron," in tribute to the University of California, the home of E. O. Lawrence who developed the device on the principle of the cyclotron, which he invented at the University of California, Berkeley {LINK: Berkeley020}.
