The plutonium for the bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki was made at Hanford’s B-Reactor. We got a tour of ... documentation of this building and T Plant, he has a shot of the front face that ...

Tucked away in the desert at the Hanford site northwest of Richland is the historic B Reactor, the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor built during World War II to develop the atomic bomb.

The B Reactor was the first large-scale nuclear ... which is key to cleaning up Hanford. The treatment plant will turn the waste from the deteriorating tanks into glass, which can then be stored ...

Then a ton of this “green” uranium was dissolved and the radioactive iodine that was subsequently released was allowed to waft into the air from the “T plant” at Hanford. The test was run ...

The full Hanford mission for the Department of Energy is to treat tank waste and remediate the environment. The location of the plutonium production plant originally was chosen due to its ...

This summer the Hanford vitrification plant, where construction started in 2002, is expected to begin turning some of the least radioactive tank waste into a stable glass form for disposal at Hanford.

This is the Hanford site. During World War II ... The U.S. hastily built the world’s first industrial-scale nuclear reactor — the B Reactor — along with racially segregated barracks and ...

Environmental cleanup is underway at the 580-square-mile Hanford nuclear reservation. The underground radioactive waste storage tanks and the vitrification plant are in the center of the site.

Hecate identified the large expanse of open ground alongside high-voltage transmission lines at Hanford as a potential site for its plant several ... 20 miles south of B Reactor, the world ...