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The reactors had all been built for plutonium production, but with the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, the Eisenhower administration began shifting resources to nuclear power generation. By the late 1950s the reactors built during the war were approaching retirement age, and in 1957 GE commenced planning to build a new reactor that would be clean ...
The initial codename for the Magnox reactor design amongst the government agency which mandated it, the UKAEA, was the Pressurised Pile Producing Power and Plutonium (PIPPA) and as this codename suggests, the reactor was designed as both a power plant and, when operated with low fuel "burn-up"; as a producer of plutonium-239 for the nascent ...
B Reactor plutonium used in world's first nuclear explosion. (Trinity Test Site, New Mexico) [29] 1945 9 August B Reactor plutonium used in Fat Man bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan [29] 1946 March B Reactor operations suspended [29] 1948 June B Reactor operation resumed [29] 1949 March B Reactor begins production of tritium for use in hydrogen ...
The B Reactor was the world's first full-scale plutonium production reactor. Instead of being cocooned, it was turned into a National Historic Landmark in 2008.
Hanford’s B Reactor, the world’s first full-scale production reactor, is shown from the air in 1944. All that summer, construction workers streamed into the Hanford camp, filling barracks as ...
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.
Khushab Nuclear Complex is a plutonium production nuclear reactor and heavy water complex situated 30 kilometres (19 mi) south of the town of Jauharabad in Khushab District, Punjab, Pakistan. The heavy water and natural uranium reactors at Khushab are a central element of Pakistan's program to produce plutonium and tritium for use in compact ...
In practice, however, reactor-bred plutonium will invariably contain a certain amount of 240 Pu due to the tendency of 239 Pu to absorb an additional neutron during production. 240 Pu has a high rate of spontaneous fission events (415,000 fission/s-kg), making it an undesirable contaminant.