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 program ...

Capsules containing 30% of the radioactivity at the Hanford nuclear site are stored in a decaying underwater pool.

The Hanford Site is the most polluted area in the US, though cleanup started decades ago. Estimates say it will take decades more and up to $640 billion to finish the job. The site just received ...

More scraps of irradiated reactor fuel have been found in Hanford's K West Basin, where it was stored at the end of the Cold War. The three newly discovered scraps -- broken off of uranium fuel rods - ...

The first capsules of high-level radioactive waste have been removed from a water-filled pool at the Hanford nuclear site to prepare them for safer dry storage in steel-lined, reinforced-concrete ...

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 to ...

A major radioactive contamination threat to the Columbia River should be removed at the Hanford nuclear site before the end of summer. Hanford workers have started to pump contaminated water from the ...

It’s a 45-minute bus ride to get a first-hand look into a top secret Eastern Washington project that changed the world. Tucked away in the desert northwest of Richland is the historic B Reactor built ...

HANFORD SITE — A clock centered high on a big control panel inside the B Reactor National Historic Landmark says it's 10:48. At this particular time, it isn't. The actual time during this part of a ...