The Hanford Site is a decommissioned nuclear production complex operated by the United States federal government on the Columbia River in Benton County...
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nuclear production facility known as the Hanford Site. The town was located in what is now the "100F" sector of the site. The original town, named for the judge...
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White Bluffs, Washington (section Hanford Site)
depopulated in 1943 along with the town of Hanford to make room for the nuclear production facility known as the Hanford Site. Prior to the arrival of white settlers...
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Manhattan Project (section Hanford)
designed the X-10 Graphite Reactor and the production reactors at the Hanford Site, in which uranium was irradiated and transmuted into plutonium. The Fat...
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B Reactor (redirect from Hanford B Reactor)
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...
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Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents (section Individual disasters, incidents and sites)
1954 Totskoye nuclear exercise 1950 Desert Rock exercises Bikini Atoll Hanford Site Rocky Flats Plant, see also radioactive contamination from the Rocky...
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Columbia Generating Station (redirect from Hanford generating station)
Generating Station is a nuclear commercial energy facility located on the Hanford Site, 10 miles (16 km) north of Richland, Washington. It is owned and operated...
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Richland, Washington (category Manhattan Project sites)
home to the Hanford nuclear site. For centuries, the village of Chemna stood at the mouth of the current Yakima River. Today that village site is called...
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two sites along the river. Plutonium for nuclear weapons was produced for decades at the Hanford Site, which is now the most contaminated nuclear site in...
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the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service; part of the monument within the Hanford Site is also managed by the Department of Energy. President Bill Clinton established...
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The Hanford Engineer Works (HEW) was a nuclear production complex in Benton County, Washington, established by the United States federal government in...
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established in 1965 when research and development at the Hanford Site was separated from other Hanford operations. In 1995, the laboratory was renamed the...
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Tri-Cities, Washington (section Early Hanford)
part of the Tri-Cities, Pasco in particular. After the founding of the Hanford Site in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project, Richland became the largest...
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Reactor on the Hanford Site is completed, becoming the first large-scale nuclear reactor in the world. 1945 May 7: Plutonium from the Hanford Site is used at...
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Archived from the original on 2012-08-31. Retrieved 2011-10-27. "Hanford Site: Hanford Overview". United States Department of Energy. Archived from the...
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engineers at Los Alamos Laboratory using plutonium manufactured at the Hanford Site and was dropped from the Boeing B-29 Superfortress Bockscar piloted by...
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Hanford is the most populous city and the county seat of Kings County, California, located in the San Joaquin Valley region of the greater Central Valley...
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October 1947 by Federal Bureau of Prisons to provide labor supporting the Hanford Site. The camp was used to house "minimum-custody-type improvable male offenders...
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Benton County, Washington (section Sites of interest)
Columbia Center Mall Columbia Park Hanford Reach National Monument: see also Hanford Reach Interpretive Center Hanford Site Ice Age Floods National Geologic...
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of radioactive strontium containing millions of curies are stored at Hanford Site's Waste Encapsulation and Storage Facility. Algae has shown selectivity...
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Harold McCluskey (category Hanford Site people)
Morrow. In 1948 he moved to Prosser, Washington and began working at the Hanford Site. On August 30, 1976, McCluskey, then 64, was exposed to 500 times the...
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considerable delay in use of the weapon. (By comparison, B Reactor at the Hanford Site was designed to produce around 20 kilograms of plutonium per month, and...
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Nuclear safety and security (section Hanford Site)
the Atomic Scientists. Archived from the original on 2012-01-21. "Hanford Site: Hanford Overview". United States Department of Energy. Archived from the...
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LIGO (redirect from LIGO Hanford Observatory)
-90.7742417) in Livingston, Louisiana, and the LIGO Hanford Observatory, on the DOE Hanford Site (46°27′18.52″N 119°24′27.56″W / 46.4551444°N 119.4076556°W...
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Chicago Pile-1 (redirect from Site of First Self-Sustaining Nuclear Reaction)
rehabilitate the site. As part of the cleanup, 500 cubic yards (380 m3) of radioactive waste was removed and sent to the Hanford Site for disposal. By...
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PUREX (section List of nuclear reprocessing sites)
Gerber, M.S. (February 2001). "History of Hanford Site Defense Production (Brief)" (PDF). Fluor Hanford / US DOE. Retrieved 2009-10-01. "Greenpeace...
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the Hanford Reach flows through the Hanford Site, a nuclear production facility established during World War II. It is also the site of the Hanford Reach...
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the Wayback Machine". (June 2000). Disposition of Surplus Hanford Site Uranium, Hanford Site, Richland, Washington. US Department of Energy. "Acronyms...
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primary research and production sites of the project were the plutonium production facility at what is now the Hanford Site; the uranium enrichment facilities...
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Fast Flux Test Facility (redirect from Fast flux site)
does not generate electricity. It is situated in the 400 Area of the Hanford Site, which is located in the state of Washington. The construction of the...
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