Marshall initiated search for a suitable bomb laboratory site. Oppenheimer offered the Los Alamos Ranch School as an ...

The Department of Energy is ready to begin a three-year construction project critical to the environmental cleanup of the ...

The last piece of piping has been installed to move radioactive waste to the Hanford site vitrification plant, as final preparations are made to begin treating waste for disposal that has been stored ...

Hanford plant begins final testing phase using chemical simulants for waste. Low Activity Waste Facility aims to start treating radioactive waste by July. DOE contractor H2C set to assume ...

Nichols moved plutonium production from Oak Ridge to Hanford, Washington. Meeting with DuPont officials and Lt. Col. Franklin Matthias mid-December 1942, they discussed site requirements.

Hanford workers make progress in 2023 on installing a new ventilation system at the REDOX plant at the Hanford nuclear site to allow continued cleanup in the former plutonium processing facility ...

It’s also about 20 miles south of B Reactor, the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor, which produced the plutonium for the atomic bomb used on Nagasaki, Japan.

A tank farm holding untreated waste from plutonium production at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. When Hanford was decommissioned in 1989, 54 million gallons of radioactive sludge was left behind ...

During its operational years, Hanford supplied plutonium for the “Fat Man” bomb dropped on Nagasaki in World War 2 and accounted for 65 percent of the U.S. nuclear arsenal during the Cold War.

Hanford's plutonium was used in the Trinity test, the first detonated nuclear bomb. ... In 2002, work began on a tank waste treatment plant, which is key to cleaning up Hanford.

The Hanford Site is the most polluted area in the US, though cleanup started decades ago. Estimates say it will take decades more and up to $640 billion to finish the job. The site just received ...

When Hanford began production, the entire world supply of plutonium totaled about 500 micrograms, enough material to form the head of a single pin. A microgram is 1/1,000,000 of a gram. A gram is ...