The B Reactor at the Hanford Site, near Richland, Washington, was the first large-scale nuclear reactor ever built, at 250 MWth. It achieved criticality on September 26, 1944. The project was …

2025年1月2日 · 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 …

2024年8月26日 · 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 …

At Hanford, and specifically in the B Reactor, the first full-scale nuclear reactor ever constructed, scientists and engineers harnessed the power of the atom and pioneered the processes to …

Completed in September 1944, the B Reactor was the world's first large-scale plutonium production reactor. As at Oak Ridge, the need for labor turned Hanford into an atomic …

The B Reactor on the Hanford Site in south-eastern Washington state is the first full-scale nuclear production reactor in the world. Hanford produced the plutonium that was used in the Trinity …

One of three plutonium production reactors built in total secrecy at Hanford during World War II, B Reactor produced plutonium for the Trinity test at Alamagordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, …

The B Reactor on the Hanford Site in south-eastern Washington state is the first full-scale nuclear production reactor in the world. At the height of the Manhattan Project’s over 45,000 people …

The Hanford B-Reactor was the first plutonium production reactor to be placed in operation. It proved that all of the physics calculations and engineering decisions required for construction …

The B Reactor at Hanford was built and operated by DuPont and was the world’s first production-scale nuclear reactor. B Reactor was the first of three plutonium reactors constructed in the …