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Charles D. Harrington

President, Douglas United NuclearHanford, WA

B Reactor/100 Area
Project Worker/Staff
The first large-scale nuclear reactor in history, the B-Reactor, in Hanford, Washington Listen to Charles D. Harrington’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Charles D. Harrington was the President of Douglas United Nuclear, which helped manage some of reactor operations at Hanford beginning in 1965.

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