Stretching across roughly 1,550 square kilometers (600 square miles) in southeastern Washington, the Hanford Site was set up in 1943 by the Manhattan Project for the sole purpose of producing ...

The Hanford Site in Washington saw more than 400 billion gallons of contaminated liquid dumped into its ground during its use ...

A Washington nuclear site that was used in ... The site was built during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project, where workers produced plutonium to build the bomb that would eventually ...

It includes the laboratories and living quarters of the Manhattan Project scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico; the site of the world's first industrial-scale plutonium reactor, known as the “B ...

DOE will activate the sirens between 12:30 and 1:30 p.m. in the 100 Area of the Hanford Site, near the Columbia River, east ...