Taming the Chameleon Element Takes a Dream Team of Experts

In 1942, Flying above Eastern Washington State a couple of days prior to Christmas, Col. Franklin Matthias was in search of something special. He was looking for the perfect place to manufacture weapons-grade plutonium. Franklin saw a vast desert to host processing plants, reactors, and other materials. He noticed that the close by Columbia River could help to cool reactors and generate lots of electricity from its Grand Coulee Dam. For more than....