Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

C. Y. Driggers

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

C. Y. Driggers worked at the 100-F Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.

Related Profiles

CJ Mitchell

Hanford, WA

CJ Mitchell grew up in northeastern Texas during the Great Depression. At only sixteen years old, in 1947 he graduated from high school and took a job working on the trailer park in North Richland, Washington.

F. B. Wells

Oak Ridge, TN

Wells worked for Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation.

A. P. Crews

X-10 Graphite Reactor

A. P. Crews worked for Clinton Laboratories at the X-10 Reactor.

Philip C. Leahy

Grand Junction, CO

Philip C. Leahy was a Major in the United States Army. During World War II, he was placed in charge of establishing a domestic uranium procurement program for the Manhattan Project.