The Hanford Site is ... When the plant was up and running, using nine nuclear reactors and five reprocessing plants, it produced about 65% of the plutonium used by the US government.

In the site's early days, plutonium would be sent from Hanford to the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where Manhattan ...

The U.S. Department of Energy offers free, four-hour bus tours of the Hanford site. The tours discuss Hanford’s role in the top-secret Manhattan project - the race by the United States and its ...

The Hanford site was established as part of the Manhattan Project, which resulted in development of the first atomic bomb during World War II. For decades after, plutonium for the U.S. nuclear ...

The lab also will play a major role in turning radioactive waste into a stable glass form at the Hanford vitrification plant ... nearly two-thirds of the plutonium from World War II through ...

The US Department of Energy oversees Hanford. It's a Cold War-era facility that led US production of plutonium for use in tens of thousands of nuclear weapons. The site no longer produces plutonium.

But one project on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is progressing at a much lower price. The federal government is moving forward with the “cocooning” of eight plutonium production reactors at ...

According to NBC, some nuclear experts have said Hanford is "an underground Chernobyl waiting to happen." Hanford produced the plutonium to ... a waste management plant that will turn the waste ...