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1940
1941
1942
June 1942- The Beginning of the Manhattan Project
September 1942- Enter Lieutenant General Leslie R. Groves
December 1942- Hanford Scouted as Nuclear Site
1943
January 1943- Hanford Was Chosen, Site W
February 1943- 1,500 People Forced to Move out of Hanford Area
April 1943- Construction Began on Hanford Village
October 1943- Construction of the B-Reactor Began
1944
13 September 1944- Fuel Slugs Were Loaded into B-Reactor
27 September 1944- B-Reactor Ran for the First Time
December 1944- Hanford Meteorological Tower Completed
December 1944- Hanford Village Housed 50,000 People
1945
2 February 1945- First Batch of Hanford Plutonium Sent to Los Alamos
16 July 1945- First Atomic Bomb Test
6 August 1945- Fat Man and Little Boy Reached Japan
December 1945- One Year Passed with 560,000curies of Radiation
December 1945- Hanford's Power was Temporarily Cut
1945- Plutonium Stored in Gable Mountain
1946
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