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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 10. Mars 2008 / Time Line March 10, 2008
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Manhattan Project Signature Facilities
WASHINGTON, DC – The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) today expressed its strong support for the U.S.
Department of Energy’s (DOE) policy statement on the historic nuclear B Reactor at Hanford, Washington.
“The 105-B Reactor, the world’s first full-scale plutonium production reactor, is one of seven federal facilities the Advisory
Council on Historic Preservation recommended be preserved and interpreted to present the history of the Manhattan Project
and its key role in the victory of the Allies against the forces of fascism and empire in World War II,” said John L. Nau, III,
ACHP chairman. “The ACHP is very pleased with the issuance of this directive, as well as with the entire Department of
Energy effort to create an understanding of the Manhattan Project by working to make the places where history took place
accessible to the public.”
The reactor was completed in September 1944 and produced plutonium for the Trinity device (the first atomic weapon ever
exploded), for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945, and for Cold War-era weapons until the reactor’s
closure in 1968. The Manhattan Project was a top-secret, top-priority program to develop atomic weapons before World War II
adversaries created similar super weapons. The drama behind development of the program played out at several key sites in
the United States that include the University of Chicago, the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee, the Hanford Reservation in
Washington, and two sites in New Mexico: the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Trinity Site near Alamogordo.
Kilde: Advisory Council on Historic Preservation: ACHP Supports Department of Energy Policy Statement on Historic Hanford Nuclear Reactor. March 10, 2008 - 2 pp.
- http://www.achp.gov/docs/ReactorRelease.pdf
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