Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

H. W. Bellas

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

Bellas worked in the 100-F Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.

Related Profiles

Frank J. Darwas

K-25 Plant

Attended the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

Herbert E. Kubitschek

Chicago, IL

Herbert E. Kubitschek (1920-1989) was an American biologist and physicist. He studied under Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago and was present when Chicago Pile-1, the world’s first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction, went critical on December 2, 1942.

Edwin F. Wakefield

Los Alamos, NM

Mary Lowe Michel

Oak Ridge, TN

Mary Michel Lowe arrived at Oak Ridge in 1944, where she worked in the teletype office at Jackson Square.