Girl Scouts on atomic field trip

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This is one of Ed Westcott’s iconic Oak Ridge photos, and a favorite of mine. A Girl Scout troop walks past the Graphite Reactor on a June 9, 1951 field trip to Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Click on pic to enlarge. (DOE archives/Ed Westcott photo)

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