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- POTW exhibit at WSU through April 5, 2013
- POTW exhibit in Portland May 3 - June 14, 2013
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Above, scientists work on the construction of the B Reactor.
Photo: http://blogs.nyu.edu/projects/materialworld/2007/10/plan_b_for_a_nuclear_reactor_a.html
Towering 120 feet into the air, the B-reactor's structure was made of 390 tons of steel and 50,000 concrete blocks. The three water-cooled production reactor (piles), designated by the letters B, D, and F, were built about six miles apart on the south bank of the Columbia River. The four chemical separation plants were built in pairs at two sites nearly ten miles south of the piles. A facility to perform tests was built approximately twenty miles southeast of the separation plants near Richland. Temporary quarters for construction workers were put up at the Hanford town site, while permanent facilities for other personnel were located down the road in Richland.
The B-Reactor would eventually produce the plutonium needed to create atomic weapons and though it is out of commission today, the B-Reactor has become a National Historical Site.
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