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 ...

Experts have said the Hanford Site in Washington is an underground Chernobyl waiting to happen. Here's what the most toxic area in America is like.

(Hanford’s site is about 400,000 ... an experimental 400-megawatt nuclear reactor complex that was decommissioned in 2001. It’s also about 20 miles south of B Reactor, the world’s first ...

Nine large-scale paintings — a number that relates to the nine nuclear reactors located at ... complicated history of the 580-square-mile Hanford site. The Hanford Reach is a 51-mile section ...

The B Reactor at the Hanford site was the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor. Here, scientists and engineers pioneered the technology behind nuclear reactors. The reactor was completed and ...

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.

SPOKANE, Wash. -- The Columbia Riverkeeper wants to hear from people living in Spokane about their hopes for the Hanford cleanup. On April 10, Columbia Riverkeeper and Hanford Challenge will ...

A third aging underground tank at the Hanford nuclear ... B-109 is leaking about 3.5 gallons a day, or about 1,275 gallons a year. The double- and single-shell tank farms are shown at the Hanford ...

Project 2025, the Heritage Foundation’s conservative blueprint for the future, offers some strong hints that cleanup plans for the nation’s most polluted nuclear site might change with or ...

WASHINGTON — A massive solar energy project is moving forward at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state, a site historically known for its role in nuclear weapons production ...

(Hanford’s site is nearly 400,000 ... an experimental 400-megawatt nuclear reactor complex that was decommissioned in 2001. It’s also about 20 miles south of B Reactor, the world’s first ...