Little Ankeny, site of the Ames Project and part of the larger Manhattan Project, has been selected by the Board of Trustees of ASM International to receive the 2020 ASM Historical Landmark Award. The Ames Project was nominated for the historic designation by former Ames Laboratory and Critical Materials Institute Director Alex King.
The citation from ASM International reads:
“The world’s first producer of reactor-fissionable pure uranium metal, enabling self-sustaining nuclear-fission chain-reactions and all of the technologies that they make possible.”
The ASM Historical Landmark Designation was established in 1969, to identify permanently the many sites and events that have played a prominent part in the discovery, development and growth of materials.
A cast bronze plaque, which will include the citation, will be presented at the official Historical Landmark dedication ceremony at a future date to be determined. The award will be announced on the ASM website and in an upcoming issue of ASM News.