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B Reactor is a historical nuclear reactor located at the Hanford Site in Washington State, USA. It was the world's first full-scale plutonium production reactor, used during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project. Commissioned in 1944, B Reactor played a crucial role in producing plutonium for atomic bombs, including the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. B Reactor was designed as a production reactor, using graphite as a moderator and water as a coolant.
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Reactor of the Hanford site of the produced the plutonium used for Trinity and Fat Man.
This was the first full scale nuclear reactor in the world, and was brought up slowly to test it out.
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Hanford B Reactor tour by Studio McGraw
. Source. 2016.

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