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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.
To register, go to manhattanprojectbreactor.hanford.gov. Those without internet access may contact the tour center by calling 509-376-1647. Those without internet access may contact the tour ...
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.
Hanford was a small agricultural community in Benton County, Washington, United States. It and White Bluffs were depopulated in 1943 in order to make room for the nuclear production facility known as the Hanford Site. The town was located in what is now the "100F" sector of the site.
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 ...
B Reactor also produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, Aug. 9, 1945, just weeks after the Trinity Test. Japan surrendered Aug. 15, 1945, ending World War II.
Hanford Reach is home to nine nuclear reactors of which B Reactor is the most famous; constructed in 13 months during World War II, it was the world's first full scale reactor. Plutonium from the reactor was used in physics package for the first nuclear detonation at the Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range in New Mexico (July 16, 1945) and in ...
The 586-square-mile Hanford site adjacent to Richland in Eastern Washington was used from World War II through the Cold War to produce almost two-thirds of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear ...