In 1945, the Hanford Site in Washington State produced plutonium for the Manhattan Project, changing the course of history. Robert Oppenheimer’s haunting words, “Now I am become Death,” echoed as the ...

Barbara Scollin, grandniece of Major Gen. Kenneth D. Nichols continues her series on his life.

When it comes to government transparency and the Hanford nuclear site, the stakes couldn’t be higher for people who rely on ...

Marshall initiated search for a suitable bomb laboratory site. Oppenheimer offered the Los Alamos Ranch School as an ...

An Oregon-based nonprofit filed a lawsuit against the United States Department of Energy, claiming the department is not ...

Richland, WA. The 580-square-mile Hanford site is the nation’s largest nuclear waste cleanup project after producing two-thirds of the nation’s plutonium for its nuclear weapons program.

The “Fat Man” bomb fueled by Hanford plutonium that leveled Nagasaki and ended World War II was only the opening salvo in Hanford’s lengthy and controversial nuclear mission.

I grew up in the 1960s in a small Washington state town 15 miles away from the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, which produced the plutonium that powered the Nagasaki bomb. My grandfather worked as a ...

The Plutonium Finishing Plant at Hanford has been torn down to the ground since this photo was taken, but still has highly radioactively contaminated tanks and trenches below ground.

The Plutonium Finishing Plant at the Hanford nuclear reservation has been reduced to rubble. It was the largest, most complex plutonium facility in the nation. “Removal of this iconic building ...

The Plutonium Finishing Plant at the Hanford nuclear reservation has been reduced to rubble. It was the largest, most complex plutonium facility in the nation. “Removal of this iconic building ...

The Plutonium Finishing Plant at Hanford is shown in 2016 before demolition began at its main processing plant and the Plutonium Reclamation Facility. ...