F REACTOR PLUTONIUM PRODUCTION COMPLEX
Hanford Engineer Works (1945)
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The F Reactor plutonium production
complex at Hanford. The
"boxy" building between the two water towers on the right is the plutonium
production reactor; the long building in the center of the photograph is
the water treatment plant.
The photograph was reproduced from Henry DeWolf Smyth, Atomic
Energy for Military Purposes: The Official Report on the Development of the
Atomic Bomb under the Auspices of the United States Government, 1940-1945
(Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1945). The Smyth Report was
commissioned by Leslie Groves and originally issued by the Manhattan Engineer
District. Princeton University Press reprinted it in book form as a "public
service" with "reproduction in whole or in part authorized and
permitted."
Below is the B Reactor plutonium production
complex at Hanford. It is
courtesy Hanford's Environmental Restoration
Project. Click here
for a higher-resolution version of the same photograph.
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