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.