donderdag 13 februari 2014




RADIO-ACTIVE
HOTSPOTS




Hanford
Site (USA)







Nuclear
reactors line the riverbank at the Hanford Site along the Columbia
River
in January 1960. The N
Reactor
is in the foreground, with the twin KE and KW Reactors
in the immediate background. The historic B
Reactor
, the world's first plutonium
production reactor, is visible in the distance.
The
Hanford
Site

is a mostly decommissioned nuclear
production complex operated by the United States federal
government on the Columbia
River
in the U.S.
state
of Washington.
The site has been known by many names, including:
Hanford
Project
,
Hanford
Works
,
Hanford
Engineer Works

or
HEW
and
Hanford
Nuclear Reservation

or
HNR.
Established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan
Project
in the town of Hanford
in south-central Washington, the site was home to the B
Reactor
, the first full-scale plutonium
production reactor
in the world.[1]
Plutonium manufactured at the site was used in the first nuclear
bomb
, tested at the Trinity
site
, and in Fat
Man
, the bomb detonated
over Nagasaki,
Japan.


http://www.cbsnews.com/news/possible-radioactive-leak-into-soil-at-hanford/

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