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Howard D. Peters

Truck DriverHanford, WA

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

Howard Peters was a truck driver for the Hanford, Washington facilty from July 1943 to December 1946. Peters stayed in Hanford for two decades after the war, leaving the area in March 1967.

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