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Housing Units (2000): 14721
Land area (2000): 13.090761 sq. miles (33.904913 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 13.090761 sq. miles (33.904913 sq. km)
FIPS code: 31960
Located within: California (CA), FIPS 06
Location: 36.333273 N, 119.646889 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 93230
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Hanford
Wikipedia
Hanford is a Welsh name. It may refer to:
Usage examples of "hanford".
So he'd go on to Hanford and see if it made a good place for building an atomic pile to blow them to hell and gone.
One thing Larssen had proved, traveling cross-country from White Sulphur Springs to Chicago and then from Denver to Hanford and back again: he knew how to live off the land.
Then there is the Hanford Reservation waste facility at Richland, Washington, in your country.
Oak Ridge extracted U-235, true-but the Hanford piles used more U-235 than they produced plutonium and Oak Ridge produced nothing but merely separated out the 7/10 of one percent of U-235 in natural uranium and "threw away" the 99%-plus of the energy which was still locked in the discarded U-238.
The Hanford plant on the Columbia River was striving to produce plutoniUM, u enough venture, it was a bright hope compared with the two colossal installations at Oak Ridge intended to separate uranium-235 by two different methods, both still sputtering and failing.