Episode

1662: "Ames Laboratory"

Podcast: Interesting Things with JC
Published: May 24, 2026
Duration seconds: 203
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Summary

Interesting Things with JC #1662: "Ames Laboratory" – Frank Spedding’s team in Ames, Iowa turned rare uranium metal into wartime production material, using the Ames Process to supply purified uranium for the Manhattan Project while the better-known atomic sites depended on that chemistry.