Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Thurl Sharrett

Project StaffY-12 Plant

Oak Ridge, TN
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
The Alpha Racetrack at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennesee

Thurl Sharrett worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Related Profiles

Majorie Feltz

Los Alamos, NM

Majorie Feltz helped with clerical tasks at Los Alamos, including on the facility's supply records and cardex system in 1946.

Kermit W. Halden

Tinian Island

Kermit W. Halden served in the 603rd Air Engineering Squadron.

John Garrett

Hanford, WA

Helen Atchley

Y-12 Plant

Helen Atchley worked at the Y-12 Plant during the Manhattan Project. She and her best friend, Dorothy Stinnett, are both pictured in Ed Westcott’s famous photograph of people going to work in the Y-12 Plant.