B Reactor Updated +Created
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
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X-10 Graphite Reactor Updated +Created
This was an intermediate step between the nuclear chain reaction prototype Chicago Pile-1 and the full blown plutonium mass production at Hanford site. Located in the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
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Exterior of the X-10 Graphite Reactor in 1950
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Figure 2.
Workers loading Uranium into the X-10 Graphite Reactor with a rod
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