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| jbottero @ 2012-01-25 16:55:21 | |
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This area is "200 West" and "200 East". The main function of the facilities in the 200 Area of Hanford was to remove the plutonium from the uranium fuel rods after they had been subjected to the nuclear chain reaction in the 100 Area reactors. Five massive processing facilities called “canyons” were where these activities took place. They were called canyons because each of them is about three football fields long, with walls extending sixty feet above the ground and dropping another forty feet below it.
http://www.hanford.gov/page.cfm/200Area |
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