Hanford workers have completed the final pipeline link between radioactive waste tanks and a vitrification plant set to start ...

Now, however, Hanford no longer produces plutonium. Instead ... I was tasked with the job of hiking up hidden, jagged canyons to survey the tributaries of Oregon’s North Fork John Day River ...

Make sure to bring binoculars and keep a lookout for marmots, otters, beavers, deer mules, coyotes, porcupines, and a large elk herd that likes to hang out in the canyons ... plutonium production ...

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 ...

Hanford’s workforce once numbered more ... Some of those areas, including processing facilities known as “canyons” where plutonium was extracted from uranium fuel rods, haven’t been ...

The Plutonium Finishing Plant at the Hanford nuclear reservation has been reduced to rubble. It was the largest, most complex plutonium facility in the nation. “Removal of this iconic building ...

At Hanford, in southeastern Washington, contractors have just completed much of the demolition work at the site’s Plutonium Finishing Plant. But now crews have to finish the job. And that’s ...

A new federal report says that a massive building at the Hanford Nuclear Site is worse off than managers thought. The so-called PUREX — Plutonium Uranium Extraction — plant isn't clean.

The plant, one of five canyons built to process plutonium at Hanford, operated from 1956 to 1972 and then from 1983 to 1988. By 1998 the plant had been deactivated, with work that included ...