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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 ...
Plutonium production reactors Name Location Reactor type Purpose Status Capacity (MWth) Construction start date Operation date Closure Operator and owner B-Reactor: Hanford Site: Graphite Pile: Production of Plutonium-239 for weapons: Preserved as a museum: Manhattan Project: F-Reactor [58] Hanford Site: Graphite Pile: Production of Plutonium ...
During the Cold War, the Hanford Site facilities were expanded to include nine nuclear reactors and five large plutonium processing complexes that produced plutonium for most of the more than 60,000 weapons built for the US nuclear arsenal. After sufficient plutonium had been produced, the production reactors were shut down between 1964 and 1971.
Hanford’s B Reactor supplied the plutonium for the Nagasaki bomb and launched the Atomic Age. ... When Hanford began production, the entire world supply of plutonium totaled about 500 micrograms ...
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. B Reactor also produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, Aug. 9 ...
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 ...
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 ...