Demolition of the plant’s Plutonium Reclamation Facility resumed this week after being stopped when an alarm sounded Jan. 27, indicating the spread of radioactive material.

YAKIMA -- For four decades, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation made plutonium for the nation's nuclear weapons arsenal, including the atomic bomb that devastated Nagasaki in World War II. Now, more ...

The testing process, called “hot commissioning,” will introduce radioactive waste to the plant for the first time and verify ...

Cleanup workers have taken a big step in cleaning up a plant on the Hanford nuclear reservation that processed plutonium for nuclear weapons. They have removed a section of gloveboxes that weighed ...

Hanford is not a nuclear power plant. It’s a place. Hanford sits on nearly 600 square miles of land located along the Columbia River northwest of the Tri-Cities in south-central Washington. Its ...

Roughly one-third of the federal government's entire budget for nuclear cleanup - about $2 billion each year - goes to Hanford, and nearly a third of that goes to construction of the plant.

REDOX was used from 1952-1967 to process about 24,000 tons of irradiated uranium fuel rods to remove plutonium for the nation's nuclear weapons program. It is highly contaminated. Close Ad Next up in ...

Whistleblower Donna Busche, who has complained about safety issues at the nation's most polluted nuclear weapons production site, has been fired from her job at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

Hanford bet on the same technology as a way to allow the vitrification plant to start treating some of its least radioactive tank waste by a federal court deadline of the end of 2023.

RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) - The U.S. Department of Energy has resolved three key technical issues that have delayed construction on a major Hanford Nuclear Reservation plant.