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 ...

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

Around the U.S., about 90,000 tons of nuclear waste is stored at over 100 sites in 39 states, in a range of different ...

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 ...

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 ...

Debates about the Washington Department of Ecology’s decision to allow the Hanford Site to transport waste through occurred when Spokane lawmakers, including Spokane’s City Council and Mayor ...

Adventurous and full of life. That's how family describes Dr. Wiley Elick of Lemoore.

Dale Baker Purcell Jr (Buddy) passed away peacefully at home July, 7th 2025. Buddy was born in Hanford Washington on June 22, 1944. He graduated from Wofford College in 1966 where he met his ...