To test T Plant, plutonium from the X-10 reactor was shipped to Hanford for the plant's first full-scale test on Dec. 9, 1944, Schwantes said.

The large plant that produced two-thirds of the United States’ Cold War-era plutonium no longer exists. Crews at the Hanford site recently finished demolishing the tricky Plutonium Finishing ...

The plutonium processed at T Plant was used for the Trinity Test in New Mexico in July 1945 and was used in the atomic bomb that was dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, on Aug. 9, 1945, helping end World ...

While Hanford produced plutonium, a parallel effort in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, created uranium to use in a bullet-like bomb that destroyed Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, killing 70,000 to 80,000 people.

Hanford is home to 177 underground waste storage tanks – a legacy of nuclear weapons development and nuclear energy research ...

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 ...

The 586-square-mile Hanford site adjacent to Richland was used from World War II through the Cold War to produce nearly two-thirds of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program.

Money for the Hanford nuclear site's vitrification plant would be increased from $952 million in fiscal 2024 to $990 million in fiscal 2026. This summer the plant is expected to start treating ...

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 ...

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.

Crews at the Hanford site recently finished demolishing the tricky Plutonium Finishing Plant's main processing facility in southeastern Washington. But the demolition gave contractors some real ...

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 ...