The waste is left from chemically processing uranium fuel irradiated in Hanford reactors to produce nearly two-thirds of the ...

In 1945, the Hanford Site in Washington State produced plutonium for the Manhattan Project, changing the course of history. Robert Oppenheimer’s haunting words, “Now I am become Death,” echoed as the ...

Washington, on what would become known as the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. The plutonium refined at the site as part of World War II’s Manhattan Project fueled the atomic bomb dropped on ...

Money was made available to prevent subcontractor employee layoffs at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington the day after Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., faced off with Energy Secretary Chris ...

Eschenberg also praised the work of the Central Washington Construction ... The K West Reactor is the last former plutonium-production reactor at the Hanford site to be cocooned.

Government negotiators are looking for a compromise. B Plant, the Hanford Site’s earliest plutonium processing facility in Washington State.Credit...Mason Trinca for The New York Times Supported ...

In 2000, wildfires threatened the complex, and Washington's Department of Health reported a rise in plutonium levels in the area, thought to be spread by dust and ash. Some Hanford workers say ...

I’m Dave Miller, coming to you from Washington State ... to talk about the Hanford Site. Fifty-six million gallons of radioactive waste created from decades of plutonium production is stored ...

That included a railroad tanker car packed with animal carcasses, then buried, said Mark Buckmaster, Washington ... started at Hanford during World War II, when plutonium was produced for the ...

A portion of the Plutonium Finishing Plant on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash., photographed on May 13, 2017. The state of Washington believes the federal government is unlikely to ...

At its peak, Hanford’s nine reactors manufactured plutonium around the clock ... us,” said Jim in a 2013 talk at the University of Washington in Seattle. “You younger generation have ...

Nine large-scale paintings — a number that relates to the nine nuclear reactors located at the decommissioned nuclear production complex at Hanford, Washington — are both visually powerful and ...