National Historic Landmark- X-10 Graphite Reactor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

National Historic Landmark- X-10 Reactor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

When it went into operation on November 4, 1943, this was the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor and the first to produce significant amounts of heat energy and measurable amounts of plutonium; ...

National Historic Landmark - B Reactor

B Reactor is the world's first production-scale nuclear reactor, built in 1943-1944, as part of the Manhattan Project, the United States' wartime program to build a nuclear weapon. It produced plutonium used in the world's first nuclear detonation, the Trinity ...