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L. C. Perry

Project StaffT-Plant/200 Areas

Hanford, WA
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
The first large-scale nuclear reactor in history, the B-Reactor, in Hanford, Washington

Perry worked in the 200 West Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.

 

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