Photos: The world's fastest supercomputers

09 July 2008 11:36 AM

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This is the building that housed the original graphite reactor used to process the first plutonium for the Manhattan Project during World War II. The reactor served as a model for the Hanford, Washington, plant that later produced much larger quantities of plutonium.

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Photos: The world's fastest supercomputers