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Samuel McNeight

Construction WorkerHanford, WA

B Reactor/100 AreaGrand Junction, CO
Project Worker/Staff
The first large-scale nuclear reactor in history, the B-Reactor, in Hanford, Washington Listen to Samuel McNeight’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Samuel McNeight was a DuPont employee member who was a part of the team tasked with constructing the B Reactor at Hanford. McNeight contributed to buliding a water-cooled reactor and also participated in experiments to test the effects of radiation on the environment.

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