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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Environment; Permanent storage of highly radioactive nuclear waste at Hanford to be debated. Updated: May. 17, 2011, 7:02 p.m. May. 17, 2011, 7:02 p.m.

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.