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Bill Cease

Reactor OperatorHanford, WA

B Reactor/100 AreaResearch & Development/300 AreaTinian Island
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
The first large-scale nuclear reactor in history, the B-Reactor, in Hanford, Washington Listen to Bill Cease’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Bill Cease worked in the 100 and 300 areas at Hanford, working as a patrolman and later as an operator at B Reactor and D Reactor. His wife Louise Cease accompanied him to Hanford, and worked at Penney’s. Alhough they were originally from Connecticut, the Ceases settled in Richland, located near Hanford, after the war.

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