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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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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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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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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same site. The production plant in Cimarron made uranium fuel and MOX driver fuel pins for use in the Fast Flux Test Facility at the Hanford Site in Washington...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Richland, Washington (category Manhattan Project sites)
of the Hanford nuclear site, part of the Manhattan Project during World War II. Richland was transformed into a bedroom community for Hanford workers...
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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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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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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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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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the Wayback Machine". (June 2000). Disposition of Surplus Hanford Site Uranium, Hanford Site, Richland, Washington. US Department of Energy. "Acronyms...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Richland, Washington Hanford (surname) Hanford Site, a nuclear complex Hanford Tri-State Airlines or Mid-Continent Airlines USS Hanford Hanford Dixon (born 1958)...
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at the Hanford Site in 1953, and at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in 1953 and 1975. A red oil explosion also occurred in 1993 at the Tomsk-7 site at Seversk...
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production into groundwater has been an ongoing issue, particularly at the Hanford site. Some scientists estimate that a nuclear war with 100 Hiroshima-size...
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other settlements along the Columbia River. The construction of the Hanford Site at Richland accelerated the city's growth in the 1940s as workers from...
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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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Atomic tourism (section Explosion sites)
has conducted tours of the Nevada Test Site, Trinity Site, Hanford Site, and other historical atomic age sites, to explore the cultural significance of...
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