Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Fred Bumpus

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

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

Related Profiles

George Aronowitz

X-10 Graphite Reactor

Attended the City College of New York.

Twile Odell

Los Alamos, NM

Quentin V. Larson

Chicago, IL

Quentin V. Larson was a laboratory assistant at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.

C. M. Wylie

Oak Ridge, TN

C. M. Wylie worked for the J.A. Jones Construction Company.