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B REACTOR MUSEUM
The Reach and some 195,000 acres of land along the river were designated
the Hanford Reach National Monument in 2000. Much of the land has been
a buffer zone, undisturbed since the early 1940s, for the former plutonium
production site.
B Reactor, the world's first industrial-scale nuclear reactor, was built
during World War II as part of the top-secret Manhattan Project to develop
the atomic bomb.
One of three plutonium production reactors built in total secrecy at
Hanford during World War II, B Reactor produced plutonium for the Trinity
test at Alamagordo, New Mexico, on July 16, 1945, and for the atomic bomb
exploded on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945.
The Hanford Reach National Monument is managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service in coordination with the U.S. Department of Energy.
Meetings
BRMA meetings are held on the second Monday of each month, 7:00 pm,
at the Richland Public Library, corner of Swift Blvd. and Northgate Dr.,
Richland, Washington. The public is welcome.
B REACTOR MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
P.O. Box 1531
Richland, Washington 99352
info@b-reactor.org
www.b-reactor.org
 
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