The design allowed the reactor to produce plutonium-239 by irradiating naturally occurring uranium with neutrons. Visitors to Hanford’s B Reactor see the towering front face of the reactor.

the experimental reactor that replaced Fermi’s original. Data from operations there fed into the design of the Hanford plants. Du Pont regularly dropped off bundles of blueprints and the Argonne ...

The design allowed the reactor to produce plutonium-239 by irradiating ... To register, go to manhattanprojectbreactor.hanford.gov. Those without internet access may contact the tour center ...

The actual time during this part of a morning tour of the B Reactor is ... and architectural design by G. Alvin Pehrson. The city's Alphabet Houses were built for Hanford site workers and were ...

Compared to the massive scale of radioactive waste issues at the Department of Energy’s decommissioned Hanford nuclear site in Southeastern Washington, the empty nuclear submarine reactor ...

just four months after the reactor began operating. No one fully understood plutonium's effects on humans, wildlife, and the environment at the time. The physicians working at Hanford reportedly ...

NuScale Power of Corvallis, Oregon, is the first, and so far only, small modular reactor developer to receive Nuclear Regulatory Commission approval for its 60-megawatt design. “We are in the ...

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.

A Hanford crew worked to tear down an obsolete building at the K West Reactor in September 2023 ... tanks is scheduled to begin and the design, engineering and construction work for the facility ...

On Friday, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) announced that it would be issuing a certification to a new nuclear reactor design, making it just the seventh that has been approved for use in ...

Wigner’s team had designed the Hanford reactors to house 1,600 process tubes. Fortunately, Wheeler had fretted about something like the xenon problem. The original reactor design had included ...