Hanford production reactors

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dual-purpose reactor graphite-moderated reactor nuclear reactor series plutonium production reactor plutonium production reactor complex

The Hanford production reactors were a series of plutonium-producing nuclear reactors built during and after World War II at the Hanford Site in Washington State as part of the U.S. nuclear weapons program.

Aliases (14)

B Reactor ×10
N Reactor ×4
B Reactor, Hanford ×1
C Reactor ×1
D Reactor ×1
DR Reactor ×1
F Reactor ×1
H Reactor ×1
Hanford B Reactor ×1
Hanford Engineer Works plutonium production reactors ×1
Hanford single-pass production reactors ×1
K Area at Hanford ×1
K-East Reactor ×1
K-West Reactor ×1

Statements (55)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	dual-purpose reactor → graphite-moderated reactor → nuclear reactor series → plutonium production reactor → plutonium production reactor → plutonium production reactor → plutonium production reactor → plutonium production reactor → plutonium production reactor → plutonium production reactor → plutonium production reactor → plutonium production reactor complex →
associatedWith	radioactive contamination at Hanford Site →
coolant	pressurized water → water-cooled →
country	United States → United States →
designedBy	DuPont →
era	Cold War → World War II →
firstCriticality	1944 → 1944 →
fuelType	natural uranium →
hasPart	B Reactor → C Reactor → D Reactor → DR Reactor → F Reactor → H Reactor → K-East Reactor → K-West Reactor → N Reactor →
locatedIn	Benton County, Washington → Hanford Site → Hanford Site → Washington State →
locatedOn	Columbia River →
notableFor	world's first full-scale plutonium production reactor →
numberOfReactors	9 →
operator	DuPont → General Electric → U.S. Army Corps of Engineers →
ownedBy	United States government →
partOf	Hanford Site →
producedPlutoniumFor	Fat Man nuclear bomb → Trinity test →
program	Manhattan Project → U.S. nuclear weapons program →
purpose	electricity generation → plutonium production → plutonium production for nuclear weapons →
reactorType	graphite-moderated reactor →
startConstruction	1943 → 1943 →
status	permanently shut down →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
F Reactor ("Hanford single-pass production reactors") → K-West Reactor →	partOf
X-10 Project ("Hanford Engineer Works plutonium production reactors") →	followedBy
Manhattan Project sites ("B Reactor, Hanford") →	hasPart
K-East Reactor ("K Area at Hanford") →	namedAfter
D Reactor →	partOfSeries
X-10 graphite reactor ("Hanford B Reactor") →	relatedFacility