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B Reactor

Hanford Site
Hanford WA United States
http://www.hanford.gov/page.cf...

Status:	built
Construction Dates
Began	1943
Finished	1944

Building Uses

- industrial

Structural Types

- chimney

- lowrise

Heights	Value	Source / Comments

Spire	200 ft	Unconfirmed


Roof	98 ft	Unconfirmed

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Description
Architect: E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co.

- The first large-scale nuclear reactor ever built.
- Produced plutonium-239 as part of the Manhattan project
- The reactor itself is 12 m tall
- The reactor was shut down in 1968
- The building in the process of being converted into a museum

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