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Raymond B. Lowrey

Manhattan Project VeteranHanford, WA

Manhattan Project Veteran
The first large-scale nuclear reactor in history, the B-Reactor, in Hanford, Washington

Raymond Lowrey worked at the Hanford, Washington site for the Manhattan Project from 1943 to 1948. Lowrey began his career in the Oklahoma Ordnance Works before moving to Hanford and settling in Richland, Washington after the war. 

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