Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

J.W. Roddie

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

Roddie worked at the 200 East Area at Hanford During the Manhattan Project.

Related Profiles

William C. Giguere

Tinian Island

William C. Giguere served in the 603rd Air Engineering Squadron. 

G. C. DeCroes

Y-12 Plant

G. C. DeCroes worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Stanley G. Thompson

Hanford, WA

Stanley G. Thompson was an American chemist responsible for the bismuth phosphate separation process used in the production of plutonium at the Hanford site during the Manhattan Project.

Jane Wainwright

Los Alamos, NM

Jane Wainwright served in the Women’s Army Corps at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.