A group of Hanford workers have come up positive for internal radioactive contamination. (Photo: KING) Author: Susannah Frame Published: 2:19 AM EDT August 3, 2017 Updated: 8:19 AM EDT August 3, 2017 ...

The Hanford Site in southeastern Washington is pictured in this 2020 photo. The nuclear reservation includes 56 million gallons of radioactive waste across 580 square miles.

We’ve talked a lot this week about life and work specifically at Hanford, but not all of the waste stayed there. In the rush to process plutonium at Hanford, plant operators expelled radioactive ...

Fat Man, the nuclear bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945, also contained Hanford's plutonium. The bomb killed an estimated 50,000 people in Nagasaki, The BBC reported.

Yet Hanford’s legacy didn’t end with WWII - it became a symbol of environmental risk. This video connects Hanford’s story to lessons in corporate responsibility and long-term planning.

In the site's early days, plutonium would be sent from Hanford to the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where Manhattan Project scientists would use it in the development of atomic weapons ...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Vast quantities of radioactive waste have been lost across the sprawling Hanford nuclear reservation since the 1940s, and the U.S. Department of Energy is ignoring the ...

Hanford, which is roughly half the size of Rhode Island, spent decades making plutonium for the nation's nuclear weapons arsenal. KING 5 Investigative Reporter Susannah Frame is covering this story.

By 1987, when the last reactor was decommissioned, Hanford had produced 74 tons of plutonium — about the weight of a fin whale, and enough for over 10,000 American bombs.

On August 30, 1976, Harold McCluskey, a chemical operator at the Hanford nuclear weapons plant, survived what is considered one of the highest doses of radiation exposure ever recorded.

Fat Man, the nuclear bomb that was detonated over Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945, also contained Hanford's plutonium. The bomb killed an estimated 50,000 people in Nagasaki, The BBC reported.