He was active in the design and operation of research and production reactors first at General Electric and then for the Atomic Energy Commission.
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Established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project, it was home to the B-Reactor, the first full-scale plutonium production reactor in the world.
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The facility contains five production reactors, fuel fabrication facilities, a research laboratory, heavy water production facilities, two fuel reprocessing facilities and tritium recovery facilities.
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It also agreed to shut down operations of a five-megawatt plutonium production reactor and halt construction on two other nuclear reactors capable of producing weapons-grade plutonium.
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The facility, and a larger complex at the Savannah River Site had fulfilled its purpose, supplying heavy water for the plutonium production reactors at Savannah River.
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It also must shut down operations of a five megawatt plutonium production reactor and halt construction on two other nuclear reactors capable of producing weapons grade plutonium.
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When the Hanford production reactors came on-line in early 1944, the mix of plutonium-239 and plutonium-240 obtained was found to have a high rate of spontaneous fission.
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Production of heavy water for site reactors started in the Heavy Water Rework Facility in 1952, and the first production reactor, R Reactor, went critical in 1953.
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In September 1944, Fermi inserted the first uranium fuel slug into the B Reactor at the Hanford Site, the production reactor designed to breed plutonium in large quantities.
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As director of the AERE, Cockcroft famously insisted that the coolant discharge chimney stacks of the Windscale plutonium production reactors be fitted, at great expense, with high performance filters.
