The Department of Energy has picked Brian Harkins the acting manager of the Hanford site in Eastern Washington just weeks after naming him acting deputy manager. The former DOE Hanford manager, Brian ...

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 ...

It wasn't until after the bomb was dropped that most Hanford workers understood what they had been a part of, according to the department. After WWII ended, the production site continued ...

The 586-square-mile Hanford site adjacent to Richland was used from World War II through the Cold War to produce nearly two-thirds of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear weapons program.

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 ...

When fully operational, the Hanford solar farm will generate enough ... which produced the plutonium for the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. Hecate is proceeding cautiously while acknowledging ...

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.

TACOMA, Wash. — The Trump administration showed support for environmental cleanup at Hanford in its initial proposal for fiscal 2026 funding, calling for a much higher annual budget than it did ...