Plans to transform Hanford, which was integral to the nation ... and alongside an experimental 400-megawatt nuclear reactor complex that was decommissioned in 2001. It’s also about 20 miles ...

Nuclear reactors created today’s Tri-Cities. World War II’s Manhattan Project created the reactor-studded Hanford nuclear reservation. The region is home to the Columbia Generating Station ...

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 ...

Anna King / Northwest News Network Eighty years ago this September, the first industrial nuclear reactor went online near Richland, Washington, on what would become known as the Hanford Nuclear ...

Work has begun on a protective enclosure for a former reactor on the US Department of Energy's Hanford site in Washington State. The K East Reactor is the seventh at the site to be placed in interim ...

The last of nine nuclear reactor fuel basins on the Hanford Site was stabilized early last week. As part of the Manhattan project during World War II, the U.S. Government built the world’s first ...

RICHLAND, Wash.-The last reactor fuel storage basin on the Hanford Site has been stabilized. The large concrete basin at the K Reactor Area was filled with 6,500 cubic yards of cement-like grout ...

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.

Gov. Jay Inslee got his first look inside the Hanford site’s historic B Reactor on Friday, and came away impressed not only with the advanced physics achievement but the craftsmanship he saw.

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 ...

Matthias’ last stop on his hunt for a Manhattan Project site was this arid steppe known as the Hanford Reach. A nuclear reactor is not easy to hide. But surround it with 586 square miles of ...