Hanford Site - Wikipedia
The Hanford Site is a decommissioned nuclear production complex operated by the United States federal government on the Columbia River in Benton County in the U.S. state of Washington. It has also been known as Site W and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
B Reactor - Wikipedia
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.
N Reactor - Hanford Site
Aug 26, 2024 · N Reactor was the last of Hanford’s nine plutonium production reactors to be built. It was called a dual-purpose reactor; it not only produced plutonium for America’s defense program but it also generated electricity. At the time it was the only reactor of …
Manhattan Project B Reactor Tours
Jan 2, 2025 · Learn more about the world-changing history, science and engineering behind the Manhattan Project and B Reactor, as well as the history of Native American and early settler populations at the Hanford Site, with videos produced by the B Reactor Museum Association and the Atomic Heritage Foundation.
N-Reactor - Wikipedia
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.
B Reactor - Hanford Site
Aug 26, 2024 · The B Reactor National Historic Landmark at the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington state was the world’s first full-scale plutonium production reactor. Created as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project during World War II, B Reactor produced plutonium used in the Trinity Test, and in the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan to end ...
100 Area - Hanford Site
Aug 26, 2024 · Hanford’s 100 Area is the part of the Hanford Site located along the banks of the Columbia River. It is where Hanford’s nine former plutonium production reactors are found. The nine reactors (B Reactor, C Reactor, D Reactor, DR Reactor, F Reactor, H Reactor, K East Reactor, K West Reactor, and N Reactor) were built between 1943 and 1965.
Hanford overview - Washington State Department of Ecology
The world's first full-scale plutonium production reactor, B Reactor, began operations in September 1944, followed soon by the other eight reactors in the following two decades. All of the reactors were shut down between 1965 and 1987, with N Reactor being the last.
During a national security mission that lasted nearly five decades, nine nuclear reactors were built along the banks of the Columbia River to provide materials for five processing facilities that operated throughout the Cold War era. Hanford produced nearly two-thirds of the plutonium used in the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile.
Hanford, WA - Manhattan Project National Historical Park (U.S.
Workers at the Hanford Site constructed and operated the world’s first nuclear production reactors that produced the plutonium used in the Trinity Test and in the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945. Learn about Hanford …