Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Joe Grills

Project StaffB Reactor/100 Area

Hanford, WA
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
The first large-scale nuclear reactor in history, the B-Reactor, in Hanford, Washington

Grills worked at the 100-B Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project. 

Related Profiles

Harry Kellogg

Los Alamos, NM

A. S. Gerish

Y-12 Plant

A. S. Gerish worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Henry Howard Roerkohl

Wendover, UT

Henry Howard Roerkohl was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in the QM Corps Reserve on Jan 16, 1940. On Nov 9, 1942 Howard was transferred to the Northwest Service Command (NWSC), located in Whitehorse, Canada in the Yukon Territory.

Ovila J. Duquette

Tinian Island

Ovila J. Duquette served in the 320th Troop Carrier Squadron.