Should Hanford’s B-Reactor be a National Historic Landmark?
That’s what Sen. Patty Murray is asking the National Park System to consider. In a letter to the NPS advisory board considering the designation, Murray said, “The B Reactor and the people who made it a reality have played an indelible role in our nation’s history.”
It’s the first full-size reactor in the world, and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. The B-reactor is where they made the plutonium that was used in the Nagasaki atomic bomb.
The National Park System’s advisory board will meet next week to consider making the B-reactor a National Historic Landmark.
More info. about the B-reactor:
Hanford.gov
Atomic Archive (source of the photo above)
B-Reactor Museum Association
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