4 October 1943
Manhattan Project
Construction begins for the first reactor at the Hanford Site
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Hanford in United States of America. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
Construction begins for the first reactor at the Hanford Site
The cause of B Reactor's unexpected shutdown is identified as xenon-135, a powerful neutron absorber produced during fission.
Hanford's D Reactor reaches criticality with sufficient excess reactivity to overcome fission-product poisoning.
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