The Hanford site in Washington State made plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, according to the Associated Press. It is about half the size of Rhode Island, according to the AP.

Hanford site crews prepare to install equipment in a radioactive waste storage tank to remove radioactive waste. Environmental cleanup is underway at the 580-square-mile Hanford nuclear reservation.

Richland, Wash. The Hanford nuclear site’s recent tank farm contractor has agreed to pay $6.5 million to settle allegations it overcharged taxpayers by paying employees with federal dollars when ...

Framatome in Richland WA hires Brian Vance, ex-Hanford nuclear site DOE leader, to oversee its fuel plant as it plans a $375M expansion and workforce growth.

Richland, Wash. The deadline to glassify the first of the Hanford nuclear site’s 56 million gallons of radioactive waste will be extended under an agreement filed in federal court. Work began to ...