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.

For those unfamiliar with the area, there’s a lot of information to take in. The B Reactor at the Hanford site was the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor. Here, scientists and engineers ...

The U.S. Department of Energy plans to open the historic B Reactor at the Hanford nuclear reservation to the public on Saturdays this spring. Plans are still tentative and more information will be ...

As the birthplace of the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor, Hanford witnessed unprecedented human achievements in science, technology and engineering. That first unit, the B Reactor ...

Tucked away in the desert at the Hanford site northwest of Richland is the historic B Reactor, the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor built during World War II to develop the atomic bomb.

Another month of tours of historic B Reactor on the Hanford nuclear site will be offered before tours close at least through 2025. Once construction starts, possibly as soon as August, tours will ...

B Reactor tour Hanford, Wash. 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 ...

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. Seats are expected to go quickly.

Some 37,000 people traveled to Hanford on Sept. 26, 1963, to see President John F. Kennedy dedicate N Reactor next to the Columbia River, noting its role in changing “the entire history of the ...

Editor’s note: On Oct. 16, 2024, about 100 Tri-Cities area leaders and people who worked to preserve Hanford’s historic B Reactor as part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park ...