Hanford (Washington)
Hanford is a former small town in southeast Washington State on the Columbia River . The settlement was relocated along with nearby White Bluffs in 1943 to set up the Hanford Site , a nuclear reprocessing facility and plutonium enrichment reactor facilities as part of the Manhattan Project . With the facility closed, part of the former urban area is now part of the Hanford Reach National Monument Conservation Area .
The only building that remained was the high school ( ▼ ). The building still stands today and shows clear signs of its use as a training area for house-to-house fighting by the security service of the nuclear facility .
Web links
- History of the place (Engl.)
Coordinates: 46 ° 35 ′ N , 119 ° 23 ′ W