RICHLAND — Most speakers at hearings in Richland urged the National Park Service to include Hanford’s B Reactor in a new Manhattan Project Historical Park.

The Tri-City Herald reports a total of 130 people spoke at two hearings Thursday and most want the reactor preserved. The president of the B Reactor Museum Association, Maynard Plahuta, said concerns about expenses, safety and liability could be overcome.

The B Rector produced the material for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki to end World War II and produced plutonium for the Cold War.

The Park Service says that only the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory National Landmark District in New Mexico should be considered for a Manhattan Project Park. Congress will make the final decision.