Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Amelia B. Smith

SergeantB Reactor/100 Area

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

Smith worked at the 100-D Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.

Related Profiles

Joseph Walter Bunch

Y-12 Plant

Bunch worked at the Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project.

W. M. Salminen

Y-12 Plant

W. M. Salminen worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Mary M. Dailey

Chicago, IL

Mary M. Dailey was a research assistant at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.

Lawrence Vest

Los Alamos, NM

Lawrence Vest was a civil scientist at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.