Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

K. H. Leveau

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

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

Related Profiles

Walter Roehr

Hanford, WA

John F. Streib

Los Alamos, NM

John Streib was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.

Hubert L. Cooper, Jr.

Tinian Island

Hubert L. Cooper, Jr. served in the 1395th Military Police Company, Aviation. 

James Fix

Los Alamos, NM

In 1942, James E. Fix, was a 16-year-old freshman at Texas A&M University.  Fix was drafted into the Army, and, after basic training, twenty men in his unit were chosen for the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP).