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Jerry Saucier

OperatorB Reactor/100 Area

Hanford, WA
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
The first large-scale nuclear reactor in history, the B-Reactor, in Hanford, Washington Listen to Jerry Saucier’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Jerry Saucier came to Hanford from Lowell, Massachusetts in 1943. Originally an inspector in charge of maintaining the barracks, he later became an operator at various Hanford reactors, including B Reactor. After the war, he settled in Richland.

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