The public will get a chance to tour B Reactor, the main attraction of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park’s Hanford site, before it is shut down for repairs later this year.

The U.S. Department of Energy plans to open the historic B Reactor at the Hanford nuclear reservation to the public on Saturdays this spring. Plans are still tentative and more information will be ...

For those unfamiliar with the area, there’s a lot of information to take in. The B Reactor at the Hanford site was the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor. Here, scientists and engineers ...

Another month of tours of historic B Reactor on the Hanford nuclear site will be offered before tours close at least through 2025. Once construction starts, possibly as soon as August, tours will ...

HANFORD SITE — A clock centered high on a big control panel inside the B Reactor National Historic Landmark says it's 10:48. At this particular time, it isn't. The actual time during this part ...

Tucked away in the desert at the Hanford site northwest of Richland is the historic B Reactor, the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor built during World War II to develop the atomic bomb.

The one on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeast Washington was the first full-scale nuclear reactor in the world. The B Reactor features hundreds of nozzles capping the metal process tubes ...

Editor’s note: On Oct. 16, 2024, about 100 Tri-Cities area leaders and people who worked to preserve Hanford’s historic B Reactor as part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park ...

Gov. Jay Inslee got his first look inside the Hanford site’s historic B Reactor on Friday, and came away impressed not only with the advanced physics achievement but the craftsmanship he saw.

Another month of tours of historic B Reactor on the Hanford nuclear site will be offered before tours close at least through 2025. Once construction starts, possibly as soon as August, tours will not ...