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

A 42-year-old Hanford workers collapsed and died Wednesday on the Hanford nuclear site. The man was working the night shift at the massive vitrification plant when he walked out to a portable ...

A 42-year-old Hanford workers collapsed and died Wednesday on the Hanford nuclear site. The man was working the night shift at the massive vitrification plant when he walked out to a portable ...

Hanford's plutonium was used in the Trinity test, the first detonated nuclear bomb. The Trinity Test, the first ever detonation of a nuclear device at Alamogordo, New Mexico in 1945.

When Hanford began production, the entire world supply of plutonium totaled about 500 micrograms, enough material to form the head of a single pin. A microgram is 1/1,000,000 of a gram.

Construction started on the Waste Treatment Plant, or vit plant as it is called at Hanford, in 2002. This summer the first radioactive waste from underground storage tanks is expected to be piped ...

When Hanford began production, the entire world supply of plutonium totaled about 500 micrograms, enough material to form the head of a single pin. A microgram is 1/1,000,000 of a gram.

A think tank wants to accelerate cleanup at Hanford. Locals, though, aren't in a hurry Libby Denkmann Alec Cowan Anna King Jeanie Lindsay January 30, 2025 / 4:09 pm 18 mins ...

When Hanford began production, the entire world supply of plutonium totaled about 500 micrograms, enough material to form the head of a single pin. A microgram is 1/1,000,000 of a gram.

Hanford was created during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project to build the atomic bomb. It made plutonium for four decades, generating the nation's biggest volume of radioactive waste.