Stretching across roughly 1,550 square kilometers (600 square miles) in southeastern Washington, the Hanford Site was set up in 1943 by the Manhattan Project for the sole purpose of producing ...

It includes the laboratories and living quarters of the Manhattan Project scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico; the site of the world's first industrial-scale plutonium reactor, known as the “B ...

A Washington nuclear site that was used in ... The site was built during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project, where workers produced plutonium to build the bomb that would eventually ...

Some 2,000 gallons of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste that had been stored in underground tanks has been shipped off the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington for disposal after it ...

For the first time in Hanford's 134-year history, a major million-dollar tree assessment project will take place. Through mid-July, inspectors will look at the city's 20,000 trees, Some are nearly ...