307 Oak Ridge's Future, the Manhattan Project 2

History | Registration opens 8/4/26 9:00 AM EDT

701 Briarcliff Avenue Oak Ridge, TN 37830 United States
F-110
Friday, October 9, 2026 (one day)
9:30 AM-10:40 AM EDT on Fri

307 Oak Ridge's Future, the Manhattan Project 2

History | Registration opens 8/4/26 9:00 AM EDT

This class will be a roughly 45 - minute presentation with embedded videos outlining the new nuclear industry initiatives known as Manhattan Project 2.0 and where they are located. Details of activities planned for Oak Ridge in the coming years will be shared as known at present. The presentation will be followed by a question-and-answer period.

Ray Smith

Ray Smith has been the Oak Ridge City Historian since 2015; Tennessee historical commissioner for east Tennessee since 2017; cohost for Hidden History: Stories of the Secret City; newspaper columnist for The Oak Ridger and Morgan County Today’s Historically Speaking weekly column. He has been a documentary film producer; photographer; authored “Critical Connections,” and has been an ORICL instructor for several years.