Manhattan Project Shield Window Fragment - SOLD 132g B wholesale-50 Prothero and Mary Persis Williams

Prothero and Mary Persis Williams

5-2" (3-5cm) (Too large for display case)

This Knightia proved to be too large to swallow and the larger fish died as a result

Above: Macro image of brick specimen preparation in-process

Manhattan Project Shield Window Fragment - SOLD 132g B wholesale-50 Prothero and Mary Persis WilliamsThis specimen is a 132 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,