= 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)>