Manhattan Project Shield Window Fragment - SOLD 136g rikers Tunguska Event Surviving Tree

Tunguska Event Surviving Tree

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Manhattan Project Shield Window Fragment - SOLD 136g rikers Tunguska Event Surviving TreeThis specimen is a 136 gram fragment of a leaded glass shield window installed in the T Plant (221 T) Plutonium Recovery Building, the first and largest of two production bismuth phosphate chemical separations plants used to extract plutonium from fuel rods irradiated in the Hanford Sites reactors. The Plutonium produced here was used in both the Trinity test on July 16, 1945, and in the "Fat Man" atomic bomb used over Nagasaki, Japan on August 9,