The Department of Energy has released a video on Hanford's Plutonium Finishing Plant, once the most closely guarded facility at the nuclear reservation. The plant was a key part of Hanford's work to ...

1965-Aerial view of the Purex solvent extraction plant at the Department of Energy's Hanford Site, where plutonium is recovered from irradiated uranium as a product for the nation's defense program.

A: The experiment floated radioactive samples on a gas stream, then hit the sample with lasers at high temperatures. B: Initially, plutonium oxide samples were matte grey but they changed to shiny ...

Around 350 Hanford employees were given the all-clear Thursday around 10:45 a.m. after taking cover for about three hours when two air monitors went off, signaling radioactive contamination in the air ...

DENVER (CN) – A federal judge on Thursday refused to block public access to a former nuclear facility that has been turned into a wildlife refuge. Rocky Mountain Peace & Justice Center sued the U.S.

The United States has about three times more waste plutonium than the last official government estimate released 14 years ago, said Robert Alvarez, senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies.

User-Created Clip by IKenneally April 9, 2021 2019-05-18T23:29:56-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/eae/20190518233019001_hd.jpgMarvin Resnikoff speaks on the ...

A government contractor has suspended demolition work at Hanford’s long-shuttered plutonium finishing plant after repeated incidents of contamination spreading from the job site in recent weeks, ...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Seven decades after making key portions of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation are being exposed to radiation as they tear down ...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Work to demolish a former nuclear weapons production factory in Washington state may resume in September, about six months after it was halted when workers were exposed to ...

Seven decades after making key portions of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, workers at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation are being exposed to radiation as they tear down buildings that helped ...