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The Kellex Corporation
Company typeWholly owned subsidiary
IndustryNuclear material
Founded1942; 82 years ago (1942)
Defunct1950 (1950)
FateAcquired by Vitro Corporation
Headquarters
Lower Manhattan, New York
,
U.S.
ProductsEnriched uranium
ParentM. W. Kellogg Company

The Kellex Corporation was a wholly owned subsidiary of M. W. Kellogg Company. Kellex was formed in 1942 so that Kellogg's operations relating to the Manhattan Project could be kept separate and secret.[1] "Kell" stood for "Kellogg" and "X" for secret.[2] The new company's goal was to design a facility for the production of enriched uranium through gaseous diffusion. In gaseous diffusion, isotopes of Uranium-235 could be separated from Uranium-238 by turning uranium metal into uranium hexafluoride gas and straining it through a barrier material.[3]

  1. ^ Jones, Vincent C (1985). Manhattan: The Army and the Atomic Bomb. Washington, DC: Center of Military History, United States Army. pp. 150–151.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference AHF was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ "K-25". Voices of the Manhattan Project. Retrieved 1 October 2014.

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