Mac and Vera Jo MacCready’s Interview – Part 1
W.K. MacCready received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees in physical chemistry from the University of Alabama. During the war, MacCready worked as a liaison between the construction and operations teams at Hanford, and later was a supervisor of the construction plant. In this interview, MacCready elaborates on the exceptionally fast building of the B-, T-, and U-Plants at Hanford, and his role as the construction and operations team manager. He describes his work with plutonium research, and the safety and secrecy associated with such research. He finishes the interview by elaborating on a fatal accident that occurred at the plant. Vera Jo MacCready was from Alabama, and traveled to Richland to join her husband in June 1944.
