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Site is a facility of the government of the United States
established to provide plutonium necessary for the development
of nuclear weapons. It was established in 1943 as the Hanford
Engineer Works, part of the Manhattan Project, and codenamed
"Site W." No longer used to produce plutonium, it is currently
the United States' most contaminated nuclear site. The site
occupies 586 square miles (1,517 km²) in Benton County, south-
central Washington, and is approximately equivalent to half the
total area of the state of Rhode Island (centered on.) The
Federal government bought the towns of White Bluffs and Hanford
and all of the surrounding farmland and orchards, and evacuated
the residents to make room for the site