Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

J.G. Shields

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

Shields worked at the 100-F Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.

Related Profiles

John C. Delmar, Jr.

Tinian Island

John C. Delmar, Jr. served in the 603rd Air Engineering Squadron. 

Roger Hall

Y-12 Plant

Roger Hall worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

F. C. Fox

Oak Ridge, TN

F. C. Fox worked for the Union Carbide & Carbon Corporation.

Berton H. Burns

Tinian Island

Col. Berton H. Burns’ distinguished career with the Air Force began in the China, Burma, Indian theater with the 40th Bomb Group.