Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Lee Wright

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

Wright worked at the 100-F Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.

Related Profiles

Earl Joy

Hanford, WA

Alexander N. Pepe

Los Alamos, NM

John B. Nicklin

Oak Ridge, TN

John Nicklin worked for the United States Engineer District Office.

Lawrence Litz

Los Alamos, NM

Lawrence Litz was a young physicist when he began working on radioactivity at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago.