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Plutonium Production

NOV 01, 1951
GE‐AEC contract extended 5 years
Physics Today

A five‐year extension of the General Electric Company’s contract with the Atomic Energy Commission for operation of the plutonium‐producing Hanford Works, near Richland, Washington, and the Knolls Atomic Power Laboratory, Schenectady, New York, was announced in September by Atomic Energy Commission and General Electric officials. The extended contract will run until June 30, 1956. General Electric has operated the Hanford plutonium plant for the government since September, 1946.

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