Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

S. D. McKnight

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

McKnight worked in the 100 B Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.

Related Profiles

Harold E. Hoover

Y-12 Plant

Harold Hoover was a member of the Special Engineer Detachment during the Manhattan Project. He worked as a filter foreman at the Y-12 Plant, but his real job was in counterintelligence, to ensure no sabotage occurred.

Antonio R. Tapia

Los Alamos, NM

Antonio Tapia was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.

Jewel Duran

Tinian Island

Jewel Duran served in the 1395th Military Police Company, Aviation. 

Hugh M. Barton

Chicago, IL

Hugh Barton was a research assistant at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.