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The Plutonium Finishing Plant at the Hanford nuclear reservation site has been demolished. Workers for Jacobs Engineering-owned CH2M finished the high hazard work on the nation’s largest ...
Hanford's shuttered Plutonium Finishing Plant has not produced its titular plutoium "buttons" since in closed in 1989, but crews just finished the main demolition.
At Hanford, in southeastern Washington, contractors have just completed much of the demolition work at the site’s Plutonium Finishing Plant. But now crews have to finish the job. And that’s ...
Workers at the Hanford site in Central Washington have completed the demolition of a sprawling complex of buildings that produced most of the plutonium for U.S. nuclear weapons.. The walls for the ...
RICHLAND, Wash. (AP) - A factory that produced two-thirds of the nation’s Cold War-era plutonium for nuclear weapons has finally been completely demolished. After 40 years of operations, and 20 ...
The Plutonium Finishing Plant at the Hanford nuclear reservation has been reduced to rubble. It was the largest, most complex plutonium facility in the nation. “Removal of this iconic building ...
For the first time in 60 years, Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant is off the electrical grid. Lights go out at Hanford plutonium plant | Northwest | yakimaherald.com Skip to main content ...
The plant operated from 1949 to 1989 and workers created hockey puck-sized plutonium “buttons” for shipment to nuclear weapons-manufacturing facilities.
Demolition of the Plutonium Finishing Plant at Hanford could restart Tuesday, more than 15 months after the tear down was halted because of an airborne spread of radioactive contamination.
The large plant that produced two-thirds of the United States’ Cold War-era plutonium no longer exists. Crews at the Hanford site recently finished demolishing the tricky Plutonium Finishing ...
The Plutonium Finishing Plant at the Hanford nuclear reservation has been reduced to rubble. It was the largest, most complex plutonium facility in the nation. “Removal of this iconic building ...
After 40 years of operations, and 20 years of often-dangerous cleanup work, crews recently finished demolishing the Plutonium Finishing Plant’s main processing facility at the Hanford Nuclear ...