Nuclear Reactors 153 - Proposals to Clean Up Reactor F at Hanford

             The United States developed and manufactured nuclear weapons at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in South Central Washington State from 1942 to 1987.  The B Reactor,  the first full sized plutonium reactor ever built, generated plutonium for the test of the first nuclear bomb and the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan at the end of World War II. Eventually a total of nine nuclear reactors and five plutonium processing facilities.

Nuclear Reactors 152 - Japan Debates Restarting Nuclear Power Reactors

         Japan had been generating about thirty percent of its electricity from nuclear reactors before the Fukushima disaster in March of 2011. Following the disaster, all of Japan's 54 power reactors were shut down. Since then, there has been a debate about whether or not the power reactors should be shut down permanently. The Abe government wants to restart the reactors and to make export of nuclear technology a big part of Japan's international trade.

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