In April we Drove to the Ricland Washington Area for an amazing tour of the Hanford Atomic Reactor. The Reactor is now controlled by the Department of Energy and the National Park Service. The tours last about 4 hours and are free but you need an advance reservation.
This is the outside of Reactor Number 2. Inside this reactor was made the Plutonium that went into the first atomic bomb ever tested in New Mexico. It also provided the Plutonium for the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki Japan.
Parked beside the Reactor is the train that delivered to Fuel rods to the facility.
The two pictures above are the front of the reactor where the fuel rods are. Each rod has it's own water cooling system. The reactor was built close to the Columbia River to provide the needed water.
Marlene and I in the Control Room. I tried to get it started, but they seemed to be perturbed at that idea.
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