It was the last reactor basin used to cool irradiated uranium fuel to be emptied. Hanford has 13,000 workers, based on the number of current security badges, and Central Plateau employed 1,461 ...

The federal government is moving forward with the “cocooning” of eight plutonium production reactors at Hanford that will place them in a state of long-term storage to allow radiation inside ...

These tech giants recognize that the next generation of microprocessors to be used for AI calculations at data centers will ...

More than 35 years after a Tri-Party Agreement was forged to promote cleanup at Eastern Washington’s Hanford site, the people of our state are still waiting for meaningful action.

The U.S. Department of Energy offers free, four-hour bus tours of the Hanford site. The tours discuss Hanford’s role in the top-secret Manhattan project - the race by the United States and its ...

the Hanford Site was set up in 1943 by the Manhattan Project for the sole purpose of producing plutonium on an industrial scale. Using nine nuclear reactors and five large plutonium processing ...

Trump’s nominee for energy secretary called finishing the environmental cleanup at the Hanford nuclear site ... startup company developing micro reactors. He graduated from Massachusetts ...