Park service recommends Manhattan Project reactor for landmark status

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

YAKIMA, Wash. -- The National Park Service's advisory board on Tuesday recommended designating the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor, which produced plutonium for one of two bombs dropped on Japan during World War II, as a national historic landmark.

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