B Reactor

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= Hanford B Reactor
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Reactor of the <Hanford site> of the produced the <plutonium> used for <Trinity (nuclear test)> and <Fat Man>.

This was the first full scale <nuclear reactor> in the world, and was brought up slowly to test it out.

\Image[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e5/Hanford_B_Reactor.jpg/250px-Hanford_B_Reactor.jpg]

\Image[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/B_reactor_exterior_2018.jpeg/800px-B_reactor_exterior_2018.jpeg]

\Video[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rlVHEY7BF0]
{title=<Hanford B Reactor> tour by Studio McGraw}
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2016.
* https://youtu.be/8rlVHEY7BF0?t=335 good description of the fuel element. It uses <uranium> metal, not <Uranium dioxide>
* https://youtu.be/8rlVHEY7BF0?t=652 N Reactor and F Reactor were identical, and came up 2 months later, but much faster because of what they learned on the B
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