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.

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

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 ...

F Reactor has passed its five-year check-up, with Hanford workers finding nothing amiss after unsealing and entering what remains of the reactor. Hanford workers have torn down six of the nuclear ...

Cocooning is the process DOE is using to put all of Hanford’s plutonium production reactors, except the historic B Reactor, into long-term storage. The reactors are torn down to little more than ...

The federal government built nine nuclear reactors at Hanford to make plutonium for atomic bombs during World War II and the Cold War. The site along the Columbia River contains America’s ...

US government works to ‘cocoon’ old Hanford nuclear reactors. They’ll be placed in long-term storage to allow radiation inside to dissipate over a period of decades.

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 ...

Workers operate a manipulator inside one of the 12-foot-by-12-foot hot cells at Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash. In the mid-1940s, employees there produced plutonium for the atomic ...

The Hanford nuclear reservation is on the federal government’s short list of sites for storing radioactive waste that could include contaminated metal from more than 100 U.S. nuclear plants. The ...

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.

US Government Works to ‘Cocoon' Old Nuclear Reactors The process will put the reactors in a state of long-term storage to allow radiation inside to dissipate over a period of decades, until they ...