Sim Chi Yin From "Fallout". The B Reactor at the Hanford Site, Washington State, USA -- the world’s first full-scale plutonium reactor. The B Reactor at the Hanford Site, in Washington State, western United
(...) States was the world’s first full-scale plutonium reactor. Opened in September 1944, it was where the plutonium for the first ever nuclear test, the Trinity Test in July 1945, and the nuclear bomb dropped on Nagasaki a month later was created, as part of the Manhattan Project. It was shut down in February 1968 and is today preserved as a museum. It was built next to the Columbia River so that the core of the reactor could be cooled 70,000 gallons (265,000 liters) of the river's water per minute when fully operational. Hanford, Washington. USA. November, 2017. © Sim Chi Yin | Magnum Photos
