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

Fossil fuel executive Chris Wright has become the nation’s energy secretary, despite questions about his commitment to ...

The contractor employs about 400. The Hanford site, adjacent to Richland in Eastern Washington, produced nearly two-thirds of the plutonium from World War II through the Cold War for the nation ...

The Hanford guards will vote on a new contract proposal Friday after their employer said they must present a counteroffer it considers reasonable or return to work Thursday, Jan. 2, under the ...

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.

Traffic crowds Highway 240 nearly every morning outside the Hanford Site’s sprawling, sage-studded industrial complex. This site churned out plutonium for nuclear weapons during WWII and the ...

Demonstrators opposed the re-start of the Hanford site Purex Plant, which helped produce plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program. Tri-City Herald file World Citizens for Peace may be ...

Harrison S. Brown is a nuclear chemist and geochemist who worked on ways to separate plutonium from uranium at the Manhattan Project’s Metallurgical Laboratory during the war. The techniques he helped ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.