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FILE - A caution sign is shown on a road on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation on June 2, 2022, in Richland, Wash. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File) SEATTLE (AP) — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling ...

Editor’s note: On Oct. 16, 2024, about 100 Tri-Cities area leaders and people who worked to preserve Hanford’s historic B Reactor as part of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park gathered at ...

Visitors listen to guide Rick Bond as they stand before the front face of the plutonium reactor in the Hanford B Reactor in 2022. The B Reactor was the first full-scale plutonium production reactor in ...

SEATTLE — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first atomic ...

Two more nuclear submarine reactor compartments were floated by barge through the Tri-Cities in October on their way to the Hanford nuclear site. The U.S. Navy does not make its shipment schedule ...

In part, it was that frightening event that spurred the end of production at Hanford, where the last reactor was closed in 1987. By 1989, the Department of Energy, the state of Washington and the ...

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The B Reactor was the first large-scale nuclear reactor ever built. Scientists, including Leona Marshall Libby, one of Hanford's few female scientists in the 1940s. Department of Energy/National Park ...

SEATTLE (AP) — For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first ...