The B Reactor altered the course of World War II and changed global electricity sources, environmental restoration technology, science and medicine, said Michele Gerber, a Hanford historian.

Creating a national park that would include Hanford’s historic B Reactor has been added to the House 2015 National Defense Authorization Bill released Wednesday. It’s the start of possibly the ...

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.

Hanford's B Reactor, which is celebrating 70 years since its first start-up, is where plutonium was enriched for the first atomic bomb test at the Trinity site in New Mexico in 1945.

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.

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, as a piece of living history, reminds us all of the long-term costs. It also reflects the hard work of a community of engineers and local leaders who labored for years to preserve ...

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.

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.