Hanford Engineer

Stanley G. Thompson joined my group on October 1, 1942 and it fell to his lot to discover the process that was chosen for use at Clinton Laboratories (in Tennessee) and the Hanford Engineer Works (in the state of Washington) for the separation of plutonium from uranium and the immense intensity of radioactive fission products with which it was produced in the nuclear chain reactors. Again I turn to my journal to tell the story ... 

Hanford and Richland, Washington, was selected for industrial-scale plutonium production and chemical separations facilities on January 16, 1943. This site was named the Hanford Engineer Works (later named the Hanford Site). 

Cantril, S.T. and Parker, H.M., Status of health and protection at the Hanford Engineer Works, in Industrial Medicine on the Plutonium Project, Stone, R.S., Ed., McGraw-Hill, New York, 1951. 

Cooley, C.R., Lerch, R.E., Waste Volume Reduction by Acid Digestion, Rep. HEDL-SA-703, Hanford Engineering Development Lab., Richland, WA (1974)... 

M.W. Urie, N.F. Panayotou, and J.E. Robinson, Hanford Engineering Development Laboratory Report, (1980)HEDL-SA-2027... 

Partridge, J. A Bosuego, G. P. Waste Management of Mercuric Nitrate Off-Gas Scrubber Solution. A Laboratory Study. HEDL-TME 79-11, Hanford Engineering Development Laboratory, Richland, Washington, 1979. 

Present address Hanford Engineering Development Laboratory (Westinghouse Hanford), P.O. Box 1970, Richland, WA 99352. 

Components in the process of design and fabrication of ceramic plutonium fuels at Hanford Engineering Development Laboratory (HEDL) are displayed in Figure 5. The plan for the fuel fabrication demonstration facility at HEDL is shown in Figure 6. 

D. E. Rasmussen, E. W. Gerber, R. B. McCord, Microstructure Characterization of Advanced Oxide Fuel, Report HEDL-SA-1171-FP, Hanford Engineering Development Laboratories, Richland, WA, April 1977. 

R. E. Dahl, Jr., J. W. Bennett, eds., GFR Specialists Meeting on Absorbing Materials and Controls Rods for Fast Reactors, Dimitrovgrad, USSR, June 1973 Report HEDL-TME-73-91, Hanford Engineering Development Laboratory, Richland, WA, 1973. 

Richardson, G.L. and Swanson, J.L., Hanford Engineering Development Laboratory Report, HEDL-TME-75-31 (1975). 

E.l. DuPont de Nemours, Inc., at the Hanford Engineering Works from 1944 to 1946 as part of the Manhattan Project. 

Figure 11.22 Typical plutonium-recovery operations (Hanford Engineering Development Laboratory). (From Richardson (RlJ.)...

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