About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Landforms of Benton County, Washington, Populated places in Benton County, Washington, Protected areas of Benton County, Washington, Hanford Site, Yakima River, Richland, Washington, Kennewick, Washington, Prosser, Washington, Benton City, Washington, Finley, Washington, West Richland, Washington, Highland, Washington, Red Mountain AVA, Yakima Valley AVA, Wallula Gap, Hanford Reach National Monument, Rattlesnake Mountain, Benton County, Washington, Kiona, Washington, Horse Heaven Hills AVA, Relief, Washington, Paterson, Washington, Rattlesnake Hills, Umatilla National Wildlife Refuge, Bateman Island, Plymouth, Washington, Hanford, Washington, White Bluffs, Washington, Lake Umatilla, Lake Wallula, Yakima Ridge, Badger Mountain Centennial Preserve, Arid Lands Ecology Reserve, Apricot, Washington. 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. During the Cold War, the project was expanded to include nine nuclear reactors and five large plutonium processing complexes, which produced plutonium for most of the 60,000 weapons in the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Nuclear technology developed rapidly during this period, and Hanford scientists produced many notable technological achievements...
