The Hanford Field Office and its tank operations contractor have begun retrieving radioactive and chemical waste from another ...

Photo: Atomic bomb test explosion in Alamagordo ... plant for separating uranium 235 from natural uranium was built. In Hanford, Washington, three reactors were built to extract plutonium ...

Some of this material ended up in the atomic bomb used in the Trinity Test ... York Times explains that radiation released from the Hanford site into the river had reached the Pacific Ocean ...

The top local leader for the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington has resigned, which follows the resignation of his second in command. Brian Vance has been the Department of Energy Hanford ...

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.

She is currently working on a project on nuclear memorialization and the global story of Fat Man (the bomb dropped on Nagasaki) that connects uranium mining in Belgian Congo; plutonium production in ...