The testing process, called “hot commissioning,” will introduce radioactive waste to the plant for the first time and verify ...

At Hanford Reach, the Steele family has bridged partisan divides for decades to ensure that this free-flowing stretch of the ...

The time certainly looks ripe for not one but two books on the dropping of the very first atomic bomb, on Aug. 6, 1945, with Garrett Graff’s “The Devil Reached Toward the Sky” and Iain MacGregor’s ...

In the remote desert east of Fallon, a Cold War-era nuclear test was carried out beneath the Earth’s surface. The 1963 detonation was part of a seismic research project, now commemorated by a ...

RICHLAND, Wash. – The Hanford Site has safely disposed of about 2,000 gallons of treated tank waste.

A former Cold War Nike missile site turned estate near Lakeville is for sale. The 26-acre property features 11 structures and an underground bunker.

Framatome in Richland WA hires Brian Vance, ex-Hanford nuclear site DOE leader, to oversee its fuel plant as it plans a $375M expansion and workforce growth.

Five countries plan to revive the use of a weapon prohibited by treaty for more than a quarter of a century, hoping to strengthen their defenses against any Russian attack.

Manhattan Project National Historical Park, with sites in three time zones, tells the complex story of the making of the ...

Sea-skimming crafts – which fly just above the water – were once considered Cold War relics of a failed Soviet experiment. Now, China and the US are resurrecting the technology as a possible ...

The bomb hasn’t been used since, apart from test blasts, and after the Cold War ended in 1991, the risk of nuclear war mercifully declined. Now the risk is back on the rise, as an alarming new ...

Sunday, Aug. 6, 1945, 8:15 am. A 12-year-old girl was walking to her seijinshiki ceremony, a traditional Japanese rite of ...