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HOTSPOTS
Hanford
Site (USA)
Nuclear
reactors line the riverbank at the Hanford Site along the Columbia
River in January 1960. The N
Reactor is in the foreground, with the twin KE and KW Reactors
in the immediate background. The historic B
Reactor, the world's first plutonium
production reactor, is visible in the distance.
reactors line the riverbank at the Hanford Site along the Columbia
River in January 1960. The N
Reactor is in the foreground, with the twin KE and KW Reactors
in the immediate background. The historic B
Reactor, the world's first plutonium
production reactor, is visible in the distance.
The
Hanford
Site
is a mostly decommissioned nuclear
production complex operated by the United States federal
government on the Columbia
River in the U.S.
state of Washington.
The site has been known by many names, including: Hanford
Project,
Hanford
Works,
Hanford
Engineer Works
or HEW
and Hanford
Nuclear Reservation
or HNR.
Established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan
Project in the town of Hanford
in south-central Washington, the site was home to the B
Reactor, the first full-scale plutonium
production reactor
in the world.[1]
Plutonium manufactured at the site was used in the first nuclear
bomb, tested at the Trinity
site, and in Fat
Man, the bomb detonated
over Nagasaki,
Japan.
Hanford
Site
is a mostly decommissioned nuclear
production complex operated by the United States federal
government on the Columbia
River in the U.S.
state of Washington.
The site has been known by many names, including: Hanford
Project,
Hanford
Works,
Hanford
Engineer Works
or HEW
and Hanford
Nuclear Reservation
or HNR.
Established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan
Project in the town of Hanford
in south-central Washington, the site was home to the B
Reactor, the first full-scale plutonium
production reactor
in the world.[1]
Plutonium manufactured at the site was used in the first nuclear
bomb, tested at the Trinity
site, and in Fat
Man, the bomb detonated
over Nagasaki,
Japan.
