San Diego business executive, leadership book author and longtime theater-lover Tim Mulligan wrote his first play, “Witchland.” The spooky story was inspired by his childhood experiences growing up in ...

A new program at the Manhattan Project Visitors Center, titled "Atomic Explorations," is set to offer an in-depth look at the people, science, and history behind the ...

A bill that would exempt Umatilla County from the statewide ban on new nuclear energy facilities has drawn the opposition of ...

The Hanford Reach is a 51-mile section of the ... barren trees, the hulking B reactor (the first plutonium production reactor in the world), an array of vintage warning signs (“EVACUATE 1.

(Hanford’s site is about 400,000 acres ... 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 ...

Visitors listen to guide Rick Bond as they stand before the front face of the plutonium reactor in the Hanford B Reactor in 2022. The B Reactor was the first full-scale plutonium production ...

The Hanford Site is the most polluted area in ... the government barred trespassers and set up a buffer zone. The B Reactor was the first large-scale nuclear reactor ever built.

Tour guide Terry Andre explains how big the Hanford site is before visitors take a tour of B Reactor in 2022. The Hanford site is 586 square miles in area. Amanda Snyder / Cascade PBS But Project ...

Editor’s note: On Oct. 16, 2024, about 100 Tri-Cities area leaders and people who worked to preserve Hanford’s historic B Reactor as part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park ...

will be the last of Hanford's nine plutonium production reactors to be cocooned. One reactor - the B Reactor - has been preserved as part of the US National Park Service's Manhattan Project National ...

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 ...

The last of nine nuclear reactor fuel basins on the Hanford Site was stabilized early ... full -scale nuclear production reactor – the B reactor – in Richland in 1944. Cerise Peck ...