Today, an estimated 56 million gallons of radioactive waste remains at Hanford, much of it in storage tanks that are known to be leaking. Considering that the site sits near the Columbia River, about ...

Fat Man, the nuclear bomb that was detonated over ... residents awoke to the news that Hanford was one of the secret sites responsible for the atomic bombs. "Tongues wagged, workmen talked ...

KENNEWICK – The Hanford guards will return to work at the Hanford nuclear site 47 days after they were locked out as their contract expired. On Thursday, the Hanford Guards Union approved a ...

Some of this material ended up in the atomic bomb used in the Trinity Test ... York Times explains that radiation released ...

The Hanford nuclear site contractor operating the lab that analyzes highly radioactive tank waste samples earned 95% of its possible incentive pay for fiscal 2024, up from 74% in the previous ...

Many in Richland, Washington, remain proud of "the atomic bomb that ended the war." The city's Hanford Site is a decommissioned nuclear production facility that was part of the U.S. government ...

Plutonium from Hanford’s B Reactor was used in the testing of the world’s first atomic bomb in July 1945. Called the Trinity Test, the bomb was blown up in the New Mexico desert. Hanford ...

Hanford produced the plutonium to build Fat Man, the atomic weapon that was detonated above Nagasaki at the end of World War II, and for the United States's nuclear arsenal during the Cold War.

She is currently working on a project on nuclear memorialization and the global story of Fat Man (the bomb dropped on Nagasaki) that connects uranium mining in Belgian Congo; plutonium production in ...