= Hanford site
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The <B Reactor> of the facility produced the <plutonium> used for <Trinity (nuclear test)> and <Fat Man>, and then for many more thousand bombs during the <Cold War>. More precisely, this was done at
Located in <Washington (state)>, in a dry place the middle of the mountainous areas of the Western <United States>, where basically no one lives. The Columbia river is however nearby, that river is quite large, and provided the water needed by their activities, notably for cooling the <nuclear reactors>. It is worth it having look on <Google Maps> to get a feel for the region.
Unlike many other such laboratories, this one did not become a <United States Department of Energy national laboratories>. It was likely just too polluted.
Bibliography:
* <Los Alamos From Below by Richard Feynman (1975)>
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{title=<#Aerial image> of the <Hanford site> in 1960}
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