Fighting to protect this area, to keep it recognizable, ... that was what I wanted to do to give back to this community.” ...

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

Nichols: “The most important military effect was that it required only two atomic bombs to end the war. The Planned invasion ...

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

It is time to become a nation that forges nuclear agreements, employs diplomacy, recognizes nuclear war is not winnable and works toward disarmament.

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

Next week marks 80 years since the U.S. dropped atomic bombs on Japan. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Garrett Graff about his book "The Devil Reached Toward The Sky," which recounts the bomb's creation.

The Salem Substation was one of the first built by the Bonneville Power Administration after the New Deal program was created ...

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

Eighty years after the U.S. used the atomic bomb on Japan, debates on nuclear weapons remain fraught. In Los Alamos, the birthplace of the bomb, the legacy of the Manhattan Project is still framed as ...

A nuclear chemist once 'ate uranium' while on camera to prove the substance was harmless. The nuclear industry is certainly a much-talked-about one ever since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986 which ...