Looking into this PUREX/Hanford stuff, I was curious to see if I could find what the Pu production rates were in the 1950s. And I did:pic.twitter.com/rKvdPo95mI
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Right — but they also state that they've designed the plant to handle 75-200 tons of U per month. So that gives some sense of the rate.
They only got to 7.5 kg/d (about 2700 kg/y) by 1958. This is from "The First 50 Years", p. 29pic.twitter.com/tD1LlLC0HB
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