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Benjamin Hanford was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1861, [1] the son of George Byington Hanford and Susan Elizabeth Martin Hanford. [2] Ben's mother died when he was in infancy. [ 3 ] Hanford's father later married Frances Jane Thompson, a woman from Bangor, Maine who as Hanford's step-mother imparted a taste for scholarship and culture upon him.
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.
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Exterior of the Hanford B Reactor as of 2018 Hanford B Reactor Control Station as of 2018 Hanford B Reactor Tubes and Elevator as of 2018 The United States Department of Energy has administered the site since 1977 [ 12 ] [ 13 ] and offers public tours on set dates during the spring, summer, and fall of the year, as well as special tours for ...
It is the second Hanford contractor DOE has accused of having idle workers. ... For fiscal 2024 it received $22.2 million in incentive pay of a possible $23.6 million. That is up from fiscal 2023 ...
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.
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