Manhattan Project Shield Window Fragment - SOLD 164g fossilsandgeology Strawberry Field

Strawberry Field

Note: Mini Museum not included

The blue “raindrops” are azurite

These echinoids first appeared in oceans 450 million years ago

Manhattan Project Shield Window Fragment - SOLD 164g fossilsandgeology Strawberry FieldThis specimen is a 164 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,