National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
CJ Mitchell grew up in northeastern Texas during the Great Depression. At only sixteen years old, in 1947 he graduated from high school and took a job working on the trailer park in North Richland, Washington.
Richard Claassen was a research assistant at the SAM Lab at Columbia University from 1944 to 1946. While there, he built and used fluidic systems to test for unusual leaks in diffuser tubes.
