Reporting from Richland, Wash. — As crews demolished a shuttered nuclear weapons plant during 2017 in central Washington, specks of plutonium were swept up in high gusts and blown miles across a ...

For fear of retaliation, the worker does not want to be identified. Eight months ago, on June 8, the person was one of hundreds working on the demolition of Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant ...

The Plutonium Finishing Plant at the Hanford nuclear reservation site has been demolished. Workers for Jacobs Engineering-owned CH2M finished the high hazard work on the nation’s largest ...

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 ...

An internal Hanford memo obtained by the KING 5 Investigators reveals radioactive contamination was found in air samples taken on June 8 on a public highway bordering the site. Radioactive ...

The announcement this month of a June 8 plutonium release from a demolition job at Hanford is raising more questions about how government agencies alert the public about contamination leaks from ...

In the next eight months, Hanford would produce plutonium for the world’s first nuclear explosion in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945, and plutonium for the bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan ...

To test T Plant, plutonium from the X-10 reactor was shipped to Hanford for the plant's first full-scale test on Dec. 9, 1944, Schwantes said.

But Carpenter, an attorney who has represented whistleblowers at Hanford since 1986, said any plutonium exposure is too much. “There was no kind of concern expressed.

DOE plans to fill a tank and two crib trenches at the center of the Hanford nuclear reservation site with grout. They are at risk of collapse and highly contaminated with plutonium that could spread.

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.

The Dept. of Energy Hanford website gives frequent PFP updates, available to the public. The most recent posting, on February 9, broke down test results specific to the December plutonium spread.