Activities of the Atomic Energy Commission officials at Hanford Camp in Richland, Washington. A notice sign at the entrance. Employees arrive in a car. The car is stopped for inspection. Occupants leave the car. Security men check the car. A security man checks an Army truck carrying solciers who show their ID cards. Military equipment. Radar anttennas. Trucks. The American flag on a pole in front of the building.
Readiness exercises for 5th U.S. Army 5th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Group, at Hanford Camp in Richland, Washington. A radar dish turns atop a building. U.S. soldiers scan for aircraft using radar. A soldier strikes alarm gong. The soldiers respond from their tents. They run towards heavy antiaircraft artillery guns and engage in live firing practice.
Activities of U.S. soldiers at Hanford Camp in Richland, Washington. Military Police stop a truck at a check post and check. The soldiers in the truck show their identity cards. Vehicles are checked at the check post. A sign in front of a barren land reads 'US Government Property'. A sign reads 'Headquarters Camp Hanford North Richland Washington'. Vehicles are driven. Mobile heavy artillery pieces are parked and some worked on by crews in maintenance shop. Civilian machinists working on lathes in the shop.Soldiers and civilians walk towards lot where cars are parked.
U.S. Army air defense gun crews, of the 5th Anti-Aircraft Artillery Group, exercise at Hanford Camp in Richland, Washington. U.S. soldiers come out of their tent houses in response to alarm. They run towards antiaircraft guns. A soldier is striking the alarm gong. The gun crews man the batteries and commence loading and aiming. A soldiers rotates a wheel to change elevation of a gun barrel. Soldiers at a table monitor radar. The crews fire antiaircraft guns. A radar dish on the top a building. Soldiers jump from trucks as they return to their tent area.
Story Camp Hanford during the Manhattan Project in World War II. Scenes of Dr. Glenn Seaborg and colleagues: Arthur Wall, Edward McMillan, and Emilio Segre, who generated and isolated Plutonium at University of California in 1941 A sign on a container reads 'First Pure 94 (239) isolated from chain reaction source'. A model of the atomic pile under the stadium at the University of Chicago, where Enrico Fermi, an Italian physicist, demonstrated controlled nuclear fission, on December 2, 1942. A map shows various sites chosen for Manhattan Engineer's District. Views of desert in Southeast Washington State. The Columbia River, for cooling. Electrical towers for power supply. An aerial view of project buildings in Hanford. Construction workers selected for the project in Hanford. Construction sites. Trailer houses for the workers. An aerial view of the plant ready for operation. Inserted view of Camp Hanford abandoned, in later years.
'The Story of Hanford' about the activities of the Atomic Energy Commission and parts of the atomic bomb Manhattan Project conducted at Camp Hanford in Richland, Washington. Houses of the workers construction buildings for the project. Trucks are driven on a highway. Railroad carries material to the Hanford site. An aerial view of the plant with three nuclear reactors. Reactor for the production of plutonium. A plant for the separation of pure metal. Workers work at the plant to convert uranium into plutonium. The workers wear protective gear work. A worker opens the door of the area where plutonium is stored. Two workers bring air tight containers of plutonium on a trolley. A worker makes a note of it and places the containers in a lock. The energy of plutonium is compared with other fuels. The plant for the separation of plutonium from uranium. A map shows different places from which fissionable uranium and plutonium for the production of bombs can be obtained. People read newspapers.
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