Important People/Companies
Hanford
The site for the full scale plutonium production plant, the B-reactor.
January 16, 1943
General Leslie Groves officially endorsed Hanford as the proposed plutonium production site.
E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company
The company was the primary contractor for the Hanford Engineer Works, responsible for designing, building, and operating the plutonium production reactors and chemical separation plants used in the Manhattan Project
Washington
The state where Hanford was located and built.
Effect: Hanford became Manhattan's project newest boomtown.
Cause: Thousands of workers came to Hanford looking for work and money.
Col. Franklin T. Matthias of Groves
This man was the officer in charge of Hanford and it's workers.
Nagasaki
This is where the bomb was dropped in Japan.
Feburary 12, 1968.
The B-Reactor was shut down.
Effect: Residents of Hanford and surrounding towns had to evacuate.
Cause: Hanford was chosen as the plutonium production plant site.
There were to be ___(3, 5, 4) nuclear reactors (Piles) built at Hanford. They were to be designated as Piles_______and____(A, B, D, E, F)
1. three
2. B, D, F
Lieutenant General Leslie Groves
He was the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officer who directed the top-secret Manhattan Project during World War II
Grand Coulee Dam
The Dam was the Hanford site's initial power source.
December 16, 1942
Col. Franklin T. Matthias of Groves’ staff and two DuPont engineers headed for the Pacific Northwest and southern California to investigate possible production sites.
By 1955 there were ____(3, 8, 5) nuclear reactors at the site, but because they were projected to last just ___ (15, 17, 20)more years, local and state officials lobbied for a ninth reactor to prevent the inevitable decline in area jobs once the old reactors ceased to function.
1. 8
2. 20
Columbia River
This River is the biggest in Washington, it serves as the border between Oregon and Washington, and was the cooling system for the project.
Effect:the B-reactor failed.
Cause: Xenon poisoning was capturing neutrons faster than the pile could produce them, causing a gradual shutdown.
Hanford's construction closed off hundreds of square miles of land and river. Government officials evicted about ____ people from their homes, and disinterred ____ bodies from the White Bluffs cemetery and moved them to Prosser.
1. 1,500 people
2. 177 bodies