RICHLAND, Wash. — Hanford's B Reactor celebrated its 70th anniversary this week with public tours and live music. Friday marked 70 years since the reactor was started up for the first time.

Audiences for the upcoming performances will be bused to the B Reactor — the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor — now a national historic landmark. The building is surrounded by sagebrush.

SPOKANE, Wash. — Hundreds of people gathered inside the historic B Reactor on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation to mark the creation of the Manhattan Project National Historic Park.

Hanford’s historic B Reactor appears close to becoming part of a new national park after the U.S. House Rules Committee released the annual bill that authorizes military policy overnight ...

B Reactor also produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, Aug. 9, 1945, just weeks after the Trinity Test. Japan surrendered Aug. 15, 1945, ending World War II.

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Hundreds of people gathered Thursday inside the historic B Reactor on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation to mark the creation of the Manhattan Project National Historic Park.

Online registration for tours of the B Reactor at Hanford open Saturday, March 2, at noon PST. Earlier this week the The U.S. Department of Energy announced the tour reservation process for the ...

The B Reactor at the Hanford site was the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor. Here, scientists and engineers pioneered the technology behind nuclear reactors.

Richland Registration for Hanford tours this year will start a 12:01 a.m. March 8, and registration for tours of historic B Reactor will start at 12:01 a.m. March 15.

B Reactor also produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, Aug. 9, 1945, just weeks after the Trinity Test. Japan surrendered Aug. 15, 1945, ending World War II.

Hanford’s historic B Reactor appears close to becoming part of a new national park after the U.S. House Rules Committee released the annual bill that authorizes military policy overnight Tuesday.