Hanford Engineer Works
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title:
Hanford Engineer Works
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The Hanford Engineer Works (HEW) was a nuclear production complex in Benton County, Washington, established by the United States federal government in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project during World War II. It built and operated the B Reactor, the first full-scale plutonium production reactor. Plutonium manufactured at the HEW was used in the atomic bomb detonated in the Trinity test in July 1945, and in the Fat Man bomb used in the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in August 1945. The plant continu
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Former American nuclear production complex
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanford_Engineer_Works
date created:
2022-10-14T05:27:10Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T20:46:25Z
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