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B Reactor Uranium Loading

United States of America · Science / Nuclear Power. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1944

Enrico Fermi13 September 1944

Hanford · Science / Nuclear Power

Participates in startup work at Hanford as uranium loading begins in B Reactor, the first full-scale plutonium-production reactor.

Names involved

Enrico Fermi

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