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

Framatome in Richland WA hires Brian Vance, ex-Hanford nuclear site DOE leader, to oversee its fuel plant as it plans a $375M expansion and workforce growth.

The Hanford site in Washington State made plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, according to the Associated Press. It is about half the size of Rhode Island, according to the AP.