Facilities

Enter the network through place.

The American nuclear weapons complex was never a single place. Rosetta Web reconnects laboratories, production plants, test sites, contractor facilities, and other locations to the work, materials, people, movements, and records that made them part of the larger system.

PLACE→ WORK → MATERIAL → MOVEMENT → PEOPLE → RECORD

Explore the Facility Atlas

397 facilities. One geographic starting point.

Explore the American nuclear-weapons complex by place. Search for a facility, choose SELECT FACILITY, browse A–Z, or use the fixed national map to locate facilities and see their geographic context before following the documentary evidence.

Atlas entries establish geographic nodes, not historical relationships by themselves. Materials, contracts, worker populations, shipments, and other network connections are added only when their evidentiary status is explicit.

Research rule: Geographic location is a starting point; proximity alone does not establish a documented relationship.

Facility research

Follow a facility into the evidence.

The facilities below identify major Rosetta research collections now being developed for public use. Individual facility pages will be released when enough reviewed material exists to support a substantive collection. The private Master Evidence system is not published here, and inclusion in this directory does not by itself establish a historical or exposure relationship.

Public research gatewayResearch collection in development

Tennessee · Research & Operations

ORNL / X-10 · MSRE

Building 7503 operations, source terms, worker activities, monitoring representativeness, incidents, and records associated with the Molten-Salt Reactor Experiment.

Research collection in development

Missouri · Production

Hematite

Uranium-processing history, licensing and inspection records, work processes, occupational evidence, and unresolved archival questions.

Research collection in development

Missouri · Production & Processing

Weldon Spring

Processes, materials, worker history, radiological records, later investigations, and the documentary evidence relevant to historical reconstruction.

Research collection in development

Colorado · Weapons Production

Rocky Flats

Production history, incidents, occupational evidence, investigative records, Operation Desert Glow, and archival recovery pathways.

Research collection in development

Ohio · Laboratory & Production

Mound Laboratory

Plutonium, tritium and isotope work, component programs, incidents, monitoring evidence, worker populations, and surviving records.

Research collection in development

Tennessee · Production

Y-12

Building-specific operations, uranium work, occupational monitoring, health-physics evidence, incidents, and historical record collections.

Research collection in development

Illinois · Laboratory

Argonne East

Building chronology, reactor and laboratory operations, radiological incidents, worker activities, and archival evidence across the site's history.

Research collection in development

Illinois · Manhattan Project

Site A & Plot M

Early reactor operations, burial and disposal history, institutional relationships, worker activity, and surviving Manhattan Project-era records.

Research collection in development

Network expansion

More places, added carefully.

Additional collections are being organized for Los Alamos, Sandia Albuquerque, Sandia Livermore, the Nevada Test Site, Savannah River, Kansas City, Idaho, and other facilities. Rosetta will not create hundreds of empty facility pages simply to make the network look larger.

Publication rule

Evidence before expansion.

A substantive facility collection becomes public only after its supporting material has been reviewed, its citations checked, and its evidentiary status made clear.

“A place becomes historically meaningful when we can reconnect what happened there to the people, materials, movements, and records that survive.”