Hanford's B Reactor holds a unique place in history as the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor. Built during World War II, this groundbreaking facility was part of the Manhattan Project ...

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The Hanford Site is the most polluted area in ... the government barred trespassers and set up a buffer zone. It was the B Reactor that produced the first plutonium in the United States.

B Reactor, which shut down in 1968, was cleaned up enough to allow some 10,000 tourists to visit each year and learn the history of Hanford. It has been designated a National Historic Landmark.

Nicknamed “Chicago Pile-1,” the world’s first nuclear reactor kicked off the Atomic Age and has a ... dismantled Chicago Pile-1 and rapidly moved to build larger reactors at Hanford, Washington and ...

The U.S. Department of Energy offers free, four-hour bus tours of the Hanford site. The tours discuss Hanford’s role in the top-secret Manhattan project - the race by the United States and its ...