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Title: Hanford Engineering Works employees
Date(s): 1945, 1945~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3943
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Payday at Hanford Engineering Works
Date(s): 1945, 1945~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3929
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Richland, Washington near Hanford Engineering Works
Date(s): 1945, 1945~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: This camp housed part of Hanford Engineer Works 52,000 population during WWII. Barracks pictured here sheltered construction employees of first atomic energy materials plant at Hanford, WA which DuPont designed, built and operated at the government's request. Because existing towns within a reasonable daily driving distance were unable to provide housing, business and recreational facilities, DuPont later built virtually from the ground up the village of Richland to house the plant operation...
Show moreThis camp housed part of Hanford Engineer Works 52,000 population during WWII. Barracks pictured here sheltered construction employees of first atomic energy materials plant at Hanford, WA which DuPont designed, built and operated at the government's request. Because existing towns within a reasonable daily driving distance were unable to provide housing, business and recreational facilities, DuPont later built virtually from the ground up the village of Richland to house the plant operation force. For the most part they were men and women from the company's industrial plants who had been moved to the area under utmost secrecy.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3919
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Hanford Engineering Works construction camp
Date(s): 1943/1945, 1943, 1945
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3958
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Dumping ground rock
Date(s): 1945, 1945~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Ground rock is dumped from a hopper into a truck that will speed the material to its destination in the building expansion program
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3970
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Construction at Hanford Engineering Works
Date(s): 1958-12-01
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3923
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Cerenkov radiation lights the cooling water surrounding reactor fuel assemblies discharged from Savannah River's first high flux charge in February
Date(s): 1955, 1955~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: The field assemblies are shown under twenty feet of water and behind empty fuel hangers. For the high flux operation, the Atomic Energy Commission has converted a reactor from military to peaceful applications. The objectives of this operation are to product trans-uranium isotopes and to irradiate materials for cooperating national laboratories. The neutron flux, heat flux and coolant velocity of the high flux charge are believed to be higher than those of any other reactor. High flux...
Show moreThe field assemblies are shown under twenty feet of water and behind empty fuel hangers. For the high flux operation, the Atomic Energy Commission has converted a reactor from military to peaceful applications. The objectives of this operation are to product trans-uranium isotopes and to irradiate materials for cooperating national laboratories. The neutron flux, heat flux and coolant velocity of the high flux charge are believed to be higher than those of any other reactor. High flux operation is possible in Savannah River reactors because of the excellent neutron economy of the heavy water moderator and the entrance of heat removal capabilities. (The only light for this photograph was the Cerenkov radiation).
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4025
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Main administrative building of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission's Savannah River Plant near Aiken, South Carolina.
Date(s): 1955, 1955~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3986
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Separations Facility at Savannah River plant
Date(s): 1955, 1955~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Building in the background (left) is a Separations Facility at the Savannah River Plant. Chemical processing of uranium slugs takes place in this facility after the uranium has been brought from the plant reactors. In the foreground are huge concrete encased steel tanks which provide containment for radioactive by products (radioactive wastes). Only the vents can be seen since the tanks have been backfilled and covered with dirt.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4016
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Hanford Engineering Works employees
Date(s): 1945, 1945~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3941
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Loading the initial fuel charge in the heavy water components test reactor at the Atomic Energy Commission's Savannah River Plant
Date(s): 1960/1969, 1960, 1969
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: This photograph shows the loading operations prior to initial startup of the HWCTR. The operation of a special tool for removing fuel housing tubes is being observed. Actual loading and unloading of fuel are accomplished by the refueling machine in the background. Radioactive fuel elements can be safely transported to a water filled storage pit within the lead shielded cylinder rising from the mechanical drive platform. Installation of the 24 fuel assembles was accomplished on March 1st and...
Show moreThis photograph shows the loading operations prior to initial startup of the HWCTR. The operation of a special tool for removing fuel housing tubes is being observed. Actual loading and unloading of fuel are accomplished by the refueling machine in the background. Radioactive fuel elements can be safely transported to a water filled storage pit within the lead shielded cylinder rising from the mechanical drive platform. Installation of the 24 fuel assembles was accomplished on March 1st and the reactor attained criticality on March 3, 1962.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4027
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Savannah River plant
Date(s): 1955, 1955~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4003
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Mess Hall Dance
Date(s): 1945
Contributor(s): Hanford Engineer Works (associated name), E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (associated name)
Description: African American employees dancing in the mess hall. Original housing included phrase "The Black Bottom" which suggests some of the dancing shown is actually the popular African American dance craze originating in the 1920's called "The Black Bottom".
Collection ID: E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company, Hanford Engineer Works photographs and films (Accession 1974.389)
Hagley ID: FILM_1974389_FC04
Collection: Film and Video

Title: Day's Pay, plane purchased by employees at Hanford Engineering Works who contributed a day's pay
Date(s): 1945, 1945~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3972
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Heavy water facility at Savannah River plant
Date(s): 1955, 1955~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: This facility at the Savannah River Plant produces heavy water for use in the Savannah River reactors. The heavy water produced here also is shipped to domestic and foreign users by the Atomic Energy Commission on sale or lease basis. The plant actually separates heavy water from the raw water of the Savannah River. Wherever there is water or moisture, heavy water occurs in normal water at the rate of one ounce to every 52 gallons.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3999
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Savannah River plant
Date(s): 1955, 1955~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4009
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Sodium silicate processing at Savannah River plant
Date(s): 1964
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_4022
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Heavy water facility at Savannah River plant
Date(s): 1955, 1955~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: This facility at the Savannah River Plant produces heavy water for use in the Savannah River reactors. The heavy water produced here also is shipped to domestic and foreign users by the Atomic Energy Commission on sale or lease basis. The plant actually separates heavy water from the raw water of the Savannah River. Wherever there is water or moisture, heavy water occurs in normal water at the rate of one ounce to every 52 gallons.
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3994
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: River near Hanford, Washington
Date(s): 1955, 1955~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3954
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: One of the reactor areas during construction at Hanford Engineering Works
Date(s): 1945, 1945~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3957-2
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Hanford Engineering Works
Date(s): 1955, 1955~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3975
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Section of trailer camp at Hanford Engineering Works
Date(s): 1945, 1945~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3928
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Construction of Hanford Engineering Works
Date(s): 1955, 1955~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Construction of water storage tanks at Hanford Engineering Works
Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3971
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Construction at the Savannah River plant
Date(s): 1955, 1955~
Contributor(s): E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator)
Description: Total cost to build plant was $1,300,000,000 and involved more than 8,100 companies of which 5,745 were small firms. More than 138,000 purchase orders costing more $500,000,000 were placed. More than 87,000 orders totaling about $245,000,000 went to small firms. There were 38,500 people employed at the construction peak, 5,000 of them technically trained. The size of the site is 200,000 acres, four times the size of the District of Columbia. Two world safety records for construction were set...
Show moreTotal cost to build plant was $1,300,000,000 and involved more than 8,100 companies of which 5,745 were small firms. More than 138,000 purchase orders costing more $500,000,000 were placed. More than 87,000 orders totaling about $245,000,000 went to small firms. There were 38,500 people employed at the construction peak, 5,000 of them technically trained. The size of the site is 200,000 acres, four times the size of the District of Columbia. Two world safety records for construction were set and 6,000,000 man hours were worked without lost time injury. 75,000,000 vehicles miles were logged per year on the project, 8,500 vehicles per day. National average traffic death rate seven 100,000,000 vehicle miles on the project, 2.7.
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Collection ID: DuPont Company Product Information photographs (Accession 1972.341)
Hagley ID: 1972341_3981
Collection: DuPont Company product information collection

Title: Here's Hanford: Prepared by Training & Relations Division
Date(s): 1944
Contributor(s): Hanford Engineer Works E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Company (originator), Manhattan Project (U.S.) U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (associated name)
Collection ID: Trade catalogs and pamphlets collection
Hagley ID: Heres_Hanford
Collection: Trade catalogs and pamphlets

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