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L. M. Richards

President, Atlantic Richfield Hanford CompanyHanford, WA

T-Plant/200 Areas
Project Worker/Staff
The first large-scale nuclear reactor in history, the B-Reactor, in Hanford, Washington Listen to L. M. Richards’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

L. M. Richards was President of the Atlantic Richfield Hanford Company, which took over chemical processing operations at Hanford in 1967.

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