Workers at the Hanford Site have finished filling the last large concrete tank in the K Reactor Area. From 1944 to 1989, Hanford produced 74 tons of plutonium for the country’s nuclear weapons ...

Richland, Washington, company wins contract to build storage enclosure around the K East Reactor at the Hanford nuclear reservation site while radiation decays.

The U.S. Department of Energy plans to open the historic B Reactor at the Hanford nuclear reservation to the public on Saturdays this spring. Plans are still tentative and more information will be ...

Hanford’s graveyard of submarine reactors nevertheless represents a messy and volatile problem. Since 1986, the U.S. Navy has removed reactors from 123 retired submarines and eight cruiser ...

Photo Courtesy of Washington Closure Hanford N Reactor is the last of nine aging reactors to be partly demolished and sealed for long-term decay of radioactivity. Related Links: Engineering News ...

A visitor to the B Reactor looks into the fuel storage basin. This was a 20-foot-deep pool of water where the highly radioactive discharged fuel was stored for a time.

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 ...

RICHLAND — A key Department of Energy report is recommending that the K East Reactor be torn down rather than put into long-term storage like most of Hanford’s other reactors.

Inside the reactor. On your guided ride across the vast Hanford site, visitors soon spot the B Reactor entrance. The blocky old structure looms in the distance, tan and gray.

Free tours at the Hanford site’s historic B Reactor in Eastern Washington are extended through October 2024. ... fuel storage basin viewing room and valve pit room.

Workers at the Hanford Site have finished filling the last large concrete tank in the K Reactor Area. They used enough cement-like group to fill two Olympic-size swimming pools.

Visitors have time for a self-guided experience in 12 rooms of the 1st of its kind reactor. Free tours at the Hanford site’s historic B Reactor in Eastern Washington are extended through October ...