If you like history, you don’t want to miss this TCGS meeting on 11 Jan 2017 Come to the Tri-City Genealogical Society at the Benton County PUD 7:00 PM — 2721 W 10th Ave — Kennewick WA Robert Franklin presents an overview of the history of Hanford

The Hanford Site (also called Hanford Project, Hanford Works, Hanford Engineer Works and Hanford Nuclear Reservation) is a mostly decommissioned nuclear production complex operated by the U.S. federal government on the Columbia River. Established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project in the town of Hanford in south-central Washington State, the site was home to the B Reactor, the first full-scale plutonium production reactor in the world.

Speaker:  Robert Franklin is Assistant Director; Archivist and Director of the Hanford Oral History Project.