NRC expedites review of TerraPower's Natrium advanced reactor, aiming for construction license completion by end of 2025.

For now, though, most of it is stored in underground steel tanks, primarily at Hanford ... and over 3,800 dry storage casks in concrete vaults above ground, located at current and former power plants ...

The B Reactor was the first large-scale nuclear reactor ever built. Scientists, including Leona Marshall Libby, one of Hanford's few female scientists in the 1940s.

It was the B Reactor that produced the first plutonium in the United States. The first supply of plutonium was delivered to the Army on February 2, 1945, just four months after the reactor began ...

K East's "sister" reactor, the K West Reactor, will be the last of Hanford's nine plutonium production reactors to be cocooned. One reactor - the B Reactor - has been preserved as part of the US ...

The reactor was sealed in 2003 with its core encased in a concrete shell as part of the so-called interim safe storage process, which allows time for radiation levels to decay naturally. Workers last ...

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, 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 ...

The B Reactor at the Hanford site was the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor. Here, scientists and engineers pioneered the technology behind nuclear reactors.

Now’s the time to visit Hanford B Reactor. What you’ll see inside the historic WA site By Larissa Babiak Updated July 18, 2024 11:28 AM ...

The design allowed the reactor to produce plutonium-239 by irradiating naturally occurring uranium with neutrons. Visitors to Hanford’s B Reactor see the towering front face of the reactor.