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Fred L. Hughes

Reactor OperatorHanford, WA

Manhattan Project Veteran
The first large-scale nuclear reactor in history, the B-Reactor, in Hanford, Washington

Fred Hughes was a Reactor Operator at the Hanford B Reactor from 1943 through the end of the war. He worked for the DuPont Company, who transferred him from Prior, Oklahoma to Hanford in 1943. After the war, Hughes stayed in Hanford and worked at several reactor sites before retiring in 1969. 

 

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