The concrete stack stood 175 feet tall, much shorter than when the reactor was irradiating fuel to produce plutonium.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Energy expects to begin announcing by December 31 which companies will take about 19.7 metric tons of surplus Cold War-era plutonium for eventual ...
Video shows the moment a historic exhaust stack came crashing down at Washington’s decommissioned nuclear production site.
The National Reactor Innovation Center (NRIC) has officially unveiled its Molten Salt Thermophysical Examination ...
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The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant was built to turn that nuclear waste into glass; it started ...
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 gathered at ...
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia shut its last weapons- grade plutonium reactor on Thursday, local news agencies reported, under a deal with the United States to cut the risk of nuclear proliferation from ...