Tri-Cities, Washington: Hanford Site, Benton County, Washington, Franklin County, Washington, Richland, Washington, Kennewick, Washington

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 55. Chapters: Hanford Site, Benton County, Washington, Franklin County, Washington, Richland, Washington, Kennewick, Washington, Pasco, Washington, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Finley, Washington, West Richland, Washington, Burbank, Washington, Culture in Tri-Cities, Washington, Tri-City Americans, Washington State Route 397, Ben Franklin Transit, Richland High School, Tri-Cities Fever, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Washington, Gosling, Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory, Pasco-Kennewick Bridge, KEPR-TV, Columbia Basin College, Washington State Route 240, Cable Bridge, Rattlesnake Mountain, Benton County, Washington, KNDU, KVEW, Blue Bridge, Tri-City Dust Devils, Tri-Cities Airport, Hanford High School, Washington State University Tri-Cities, Toyota Center, Interstate 182 Bridge, Red Mountain, Columbia Center Mall, Tri-City Herald, Edgar Brown Memorial Stadium, Richland School District, Naval Air Station Pasco, Badger Mountain Centennial Preserve, Columbia Basin News, Pasco Invitational, Columbia River Exhibition of History, Science, and Technology, Three Rivers Convention Center, Tri-City Posse. Excerpt: The Hanford Site is a mostly decommissioned nuclear production complex on the Columbia River in the U.S. state of Washington, operated by the United States federal government. The site has been known by many names, including Hanford Works, Hanford Engineer Works or HEW, Hanford Nuclear Reservation or HNR, and the Hanford Project. Established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project in the town of Hanford in south-central Washington, the site was home to the B Reactor, the first full-scale plutonium production reactor in the world. Plutonium manufactured at the site was used in the first nuclear bomb, tested at the Trinity site, and in Fat Man, the bomb detonated over Nagasaki, Japan....