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Seth Wheatley

EngineerOak Ridge, TN

Y-12 Plant
Engineer
Seth Wheatley Listen to Seth Wheatley’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Seth Wheatley worked on the Beta calutrons at the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project. 

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