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  2. N-Reactor - Wikipedia

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    The N-Reactor at the Hanford site along the Columbia River. Aerial Photo of the N-Reactor. Taken January 2013. Fuel element from N-Reactor. The N-Reactor was a water/graphite-moderated nuclear reactor constructed during the Cold War and operated by the U.S. government at the Hanford Site in Washington; it began production in 1963.

  3. Bismuth phosphate process - Wikipedia

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    Plutonium could be produced by irradiating uranium-238 in a nuclear reactor, [4] but developing and building a reactor was a task for the Manhattan Project physicists. The task for the chemists was to develop a process to separate plutonium from the other fission products produced in the reactor, to do so on an industrial scale at a time when plutonium could be produced only in microscopic ...

  4. Hanford Site - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. After 20+ years, success at Hanford’s huge nuclear waste ...

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    The Hanford melters use temporary heaters at startup and then a second set of heaters are turned on. These are joule heaters that pass an electrical current through the pool of melted glass.

  6. Hanford historic B Reactor tours reopening for a short time ...

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    The public will get a chance to tour B Reactor, the main attraction of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park’s Hanford site, before it is shut down for repairs later this year.. The ...

  7. 3 years later Hanford nuclear waste cleanup negotiators ... - AOL

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  8. Hanford Engineer Works - Wikipedia

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    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.

  9. Radioactive contamination - Wikipedia

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    Radioactive contamination can be due to a variety of causes. It may occur due to the release of radioactive gases, liquids or particles. For example, if a radionuclide used in nuclear medicine is spilled (accidentally or, as in the case of the Goiânia accident, through ignorance), the material could be spread by people as they walk around.