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Hanford Site: The "Apocalypse Factory" At The Heart Of The Manhattan Project
In the site's early days, plutonium would be sent from Hanford to the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico, where ...
Trump layoffs hit Pacific Northwest engineers and researchers at PNNL, Hanford cleanup, elsewhere
The Trump administration’s government-wide layoffs are hitting engineers and researchers at agencies in Washington state ...
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Hanford nuclear site contractor earns $4.5M for its report card
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 ...
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What Trump’s 2nd term could mean for Washington’s toxic sludge at Hanford site
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 World War II and ...
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Tunnel of radioactive waste caved in at Hanford Nuclear State
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 ...
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Project 2025 and Hanford: What Trump’s second term could mean for WA’s toxic sludge
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 ...
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Nuclear peace activist, ex-councilman with courage to be ‘conscience’ of Tri-Cities dies
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 ...
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In Our View: Residents tire of talk, demand Hanford action
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 ...
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U.S. government works to ‘cocoon’ old nuclear reactors
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 ...