B Reactor, which is in Benton County ... camp for workers who built the B Reactor and Hanford’s other plutonium production facilities, according to Manhattan Project National Historical Park ...

The ninth reactor, B Reactor, will remain unsealed and open ... The K West Reactor is the last former plutonium-production reactor at the Hanford site to be cocooned. The project may start about ...

The plutonium for the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki was made at Hanford’s B-Reactor. We got a tour ... Groundbreaking to first production [was]11 months – amazing, absolutely amazing.

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." ...

A light-water reactor could provide more weapons-grade plutonium, abetting the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s vow to expand his nuclear arsenal. By Choe Sang-Hun Reporting from Seoul In what ...

the world’s first full-scale production reactor, is shown from the air in 1944. Courtesy Department of Energy B Reactor also produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki ...

South Carolina’s federal nuclear site is part of a plan to replace the plutonium cores of bombs in the country’s nuclear arsenal. But now the federal government is taking a ...

The world’s first production scale reactor built ... The tube held the first bit of plutonium created at the B Reactor, the world’s first nuclear plant. National Park Service visitors to ...

A reactor at the Hanford site has been ... of Energy contractor Central Plateau Cleanup Co. Eight of the nine plutonium production reactors that line the Columbia River in Eastern Washington ...