Nuclear reactors line the riverbank, Hanford Site along the Columbia River, January 1960. The historic B Reactor, the world's first plutonium production reactor, is visible in the distance.

B Reactor also produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped ... the world’s first production-scale nuclear reactor. Photo courtesy DOE This year the number of people touring the Hanford ...

Robert Oppenheimer helped develop the atom bomb is reportedly working to return to earnest pit production. The U.S. has never imported plutonium ... SMR or Small Modular Reactor technology ...

As part of the Manhattan project during World War II, the U.S. Government built the world’s first full -scale nuclear production reactor – the B reactor – in Richland in 1944. Cerise Peck ...

B Reactor produced the plutonium that powered the first man-made atomic explosion, the Trinity test, in the New Mexico desert in July 1945. Weeks later, the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki ...

and the slow pace of reactor development is slowing fuel production. America’s surplus plutonium can break this logjam. Fuel scarcity doesn’t have to mean delays. Instead, we can turn our ...

Tucked away in the desert at the Hanford site northwest of Richland is the historic B Reactor ... The design allowed the reactor to produce plutonium-239 by irradiating naturally occurring ...

This information will be useful for researchers in various fields, from reactor designers to practitioners of nuclear medicine. “The PFBR uses plutonium ... that the ENDF/B-VIII.

DuPont bluntly asked Nichols, “Is the Army interested in maximum plutonium production or in developing reactor design?” Of course, the answer had to be “maximize plutonium for weapons." ...