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Project to save B Reactor receives honor

The Department of Energy's project to save Hanford's B Reactor has become the first federal project to win the Chairman's Award for Achievement in Historic Preservation of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.

The federal council, based in Washington, D.C., presented the award Thursday to the DOE Hanford Richland Operations Office in Seattle. It also recognized other Tri-City area groups and officials who have played key roles to preserve the reactor for use as a museum.

"The B Reactor Project spared an endangered National Historic Landmark from destruction and converted what had been a public problem into a publicly accessible national treasure," said Milford Wayne Donaldson, chairman of the advisory council, in a statement.

The reactor has recently been recommended for inclusion in a proposed new Manhattan Project National Historical Park, which would "teach millions about the amazing but true cliffhanger story of the race to develop the atomic bomb before America's enemies could do so during World War II," he said.

B Reactor was the world's first production-scale nuclear reactor and created plutonium used in the world's first atomic explosion in the New Mexico desert and used in the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, helping end World War II.

DOE plans had called for B Reactor to be cocooned -- torn down to little more than its radioactive core and then reroofed and sealed up to let radiation decay to more manageable levels. That's still the plan for the eight plutonium-production reactors built at Hanford after B Reactor.

But community support and the leadership of the DOE Richland Operations Office have left the reactor looking much like it did during World War II.

In the past two years, the preservation project has tripled the number of visitors touring B Reactor and begun to allow international visitors in addition to U.S. citizens.

"In fact, B Reactor has now been visited by folks from 48 states and 39 countries," said Matt McCormick, manager of the Richland Operations Office.

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