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W.A. Richards

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

Richards worked at the 100-D area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.

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