Shortly before the train trip, the phone rang in Matthias ... Just four months earlier, operators had started Hanford’s B Reactor for the first time on Sept. 26, 1944. The moment came after ...

For those unfamiliar with the area, there’s a lot of information to take in. The B Reactor at the Hanford site was the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor. Here, scientists and engineers ...

Tucked away in the desert at the Hanford site northwest of Richland is the historic B Reactor, the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor built during World War II to develop the atomic bomb.

Another month of tours of historic B Reactor on the Hanford nuclear site will be offered before tours close at least through 2025. Once construction starts, possibly as soon as August, tours will not ...

HANFORD SITE — A clock centered high on a big control panel inside the B Reactor National Historic Landmark says it's 10:48. At this particular time, it isn't. The actual time during this part ...

The public will get a chance to tour B Reactor, the main attraction of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park’s Hanford site, before it is shut down for repairs later this year.

The one on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeast Washington was the first full-scale nuclear reactor in the world. The B Reactor features hundreds of nozzles capping the metal process tubes ...