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The Hanford Site occupies 586 square miles (1,518 km 2) – roughly equivalent to half the total area of Rhode Island – within Benton County, Washington. [1] [2] It is a desert environment receiving less than ten inches (250 mm) of annual precipitation, covered mostly by shrub-steppe vegetation.
The B Reactor at the Hanford Site, near Richland, Washington, was the first large-scale nuclear reactor ever built. The project was a key part of the Manhattan Project , the United States nuclear weapons development program during World War II .
B Reactor and water treatment area in 1944. The Hanford Engineer Works (HEW) was a nuclear production complex in Benton County, Washington, established by the United States federal government in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II. It built and operated the B Reactor, the first full-scale plutonium production reactor.
The control panel for the Hanford nuclear site's B Reactor in 2008. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File The B Reactor was the world's first full-scale plutonium production reactor .
The B Reactor at the Hanford site was the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor. Here, scientists and engineers pioneered the technology behind nuclear reactors.
Hanford’s B Reactor supplied the plutonium for the Nagasaki bomb and launched the Atomic Age. How a small reactor in Eastern WA became the world’s first nuclear plant 80 years ago Skip to main ...
Hanford’s B Reactor, the world’s first full-scale production reactor, is shown from the air in 1944. B Reactor also produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, Aug. 9 ...
About 5.3 miles (8.5 km) northeast of junction of State Route 24 and State Route 240 on the Hanford Site 46°37′49″N 119°38′51″W / 46.63032°N 119.64738°W / 46.63032; -119.64738 ( Hanford B