Power House Of Atomic Bomb Production Plant In U.S. -- Smoke rises from the chimneys of the steam plant and power house in one of the process areas at Oak Ridge, in the southern U.S. state of Tennessee, site of the Clinton Engineer Works, one of the two centers where the new atomic bomb is produced. The Government project, sprawling over 59,000 acres, is located in the heart of the Tennessee Oak Ridge Valley Authority country, close to TVA power and water and remote from the coast. The cosmic "bomb possesses more power than 20,000 tons of TNT, has a destructive force equal to the lea of 2,000 B-29 Super fortresses and has more than 2,000 tines the "blast power of what previously was the world's most devastating "bomb. October 08, 1945.