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

N. G. Jones

Oak Ridge, TN

N. G. Jones worked for the Edenfield Electric Company.

Agnes Gnaedinger

Chicago, IL

Agnes Gnaedinger was a chemist at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.

Clay Murray

Y-12 Plant

Clay Murray worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Seymour Calvert

Los Alamos, NM

Seymour Calvert served for 11 months in the Special Engineering Detachment at Los Alamos. He specialized as a chemical engineer, and carried out experiments with beryllium that were often dangerous.