Workers stand on grating about the Hanford site K West Reactor basin to sort debris at the bottom of the 16-foot-deep pool. The work was needed to start pumping contaminated water from the basin ...

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.

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.

B Reactor also produced plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, Aug. 9, 1945, just weeks after the Trinity Test. Japan surrendered Aug. 15, 1945, ending World War II.

Free tours at the Hanford site’s historic B Reactor in Eastern Washington are extended through October 2024.

HANFORD, Wash. – A pipe fitting failure at the Hanford site led to a burst of water, but prompt action by Hanford Mission Integration Solutions kept the situation under control.

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 ...

Work starts to empty radioactive water from Hanford nuclear reservation site’s K West Reactor basin near Columbia River in Washington.

Workers stand on grating about the Hanford site K West Reactor basin to sort debris at the bottom of the 16-foot-deep pool. The work was needed to start pumping contaminated water from the basin ...