Robert Lewis
Former Encyclopædia Britannica Editor
Assistant Editor, Encyclopaedia Britannica.
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Hanford Site, large U.S. nuclear site established during World War II for the production of plutonium, some of which was used in the first atomic bomb. It is located in south-central Washington, northwest of Richland, and was originally operated by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as a unit of the…
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