Hanford B Reactor
The B Reactor at the Hanford Site, near Richland, Washington, was the first large-scale nuclear reactor ever built, at 250 MW. It achieved criticality on September 26, 1944.
- Type: Atomic center
- Description: decommissioned nuclear reactor at the Hanford Site in Washington, United States
- Also known as: “B Reactor” and “B反應堆”
Hanford B Reactor
- Category: nuclear reactor
- Location: Benton, Washington, Pacific Northwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
46.63032° or 46° 37′ 49″ north
Longitude
-119.64738° or 119° 38′ 51″ west
Elevation
482 feet (147 metres)
Open location code
85R2J9J3+42
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Hanford B Reactor” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المفاعل النووي ب”
- Chinese: “B反应堆”
- Chinese: “汉福德B反应堆”
- Chinese: “漢福德B反應堆”
- Czech: “Reaktor B”
- French: “Réacteur B”
- German: “B-Reaktor”
- German: “Hanford B Reactor”
- Japanese: “B原子炉”
- Korean: “B 원자로”
- Low German: “B-Reaktor”
- Portuguese: “B-Reactor”
- Portuguese: “Reator B”
- Russian: “Реактор B”
- Slovenian: “Reaktor B”
- Spanish: “Reactor B”
- Ukrainian: “Реактор B”
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