Mitsugi Moriguchi takes a photo of the front face of the reactor inside Hanford’s B Reactor on Friday. When the nuclear reservation was producing plutonium that would be used in the atomic bomb ...

The story of Hanford goes back to Germany in 1938 ... Roosevelt, warning about the potential for Germany to build an atomic bomb, and suggesting the United States develop one first.

As the first atomic bomb, fueled with Hanford plutonium, was detonated in the New Mexico desert 10 months later, leaders feared there was a chance that the chain reaction could destroy the world.

A new program at the Manhattan Project Visitors Center, titled "Atomic Explorations," is set to offer an in-depth look at the people, science, and history behind the ...

Robert Oppenheimer needed to construct an atomic bomb. Matthias’ last stop on his hunt for a Manhattan Project site was this arid steppe known as the Hanford Reach. A nuclear reactor is not easy ...

on what would become known as the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The plutonium refined at the site as part of World War II’s Manhattan Project fueled the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki ...

Some of this material ended up in the atomic bomb used in the Trinity Test ... York Times explains that radiation released from the Hanford site into the river had reached the Pacific Ocean ...

Scaled up, this could mean an atomic bomb. The secretive United States ... while thousands more created another fissile material, plutonium, in Hanford, Washington. Including the hundreds of ...

Robert Oppenheimer, often called the 'father of the atomic bomb,' was almost removed from ... which focused on uranium enrichment; Hanford, Washington, where plutonium production facilities ...

Signs along the road near the Hanford Site, where plutonium was enriched for the atomic bomb. The site remains a major employer but is now focused on a huge decontamination effort.Credit ...

DuPont had erected the first full-size nuclear reactor at this site and would produce plutonium for the atomic bomb. Few of the 20,000 workers at Hanford, including Mattingly, knew what was going ...

Animal experiments started at Hanford during World War II, when plutonium was produced for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. Some were planned to learn more about the health effects of ...