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The Hanford Site is a decommissioned nuclear production complex operated by the United States federal government on the Columbia River in Benton County in the U.S. state of Washington. It has also been known as Site W and the Hanford Nuclear Reservation .
Hanford’s historic B Reactor, the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor, went critical on Sept. 26, 1944. Wigner’s team had designed the Hanford reactors to house 1,600 process tubes.
The B Reactor at the Hanford Site, near Richland, Washington, was the first large-scale nuclear reactor ever built. The project was a key part of the Manhattan Project, the United States nuclear weapons development program during World War II.
During the Cold War, the Hanford Site facilities were expanded to include nine nuclear reactors and five large plutonium processing complexes that produced plutonium for most of the more than 60,000 weapons built for the US nuclear arsenal. After sufficient plutonium had been produced, the production reactors were shut down between 1964 and 1971.
A second legal challenge to the award of a $45 billion contract for environmental cleanup work at the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington has been denied.. U.S. Judge Marian Blank Horn ...
The Hanford nuclear site guards were locked out starting at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday as their third contract extension expired on a three-year contract originally good through Nov. 1.
A major radioactive contamination threat to the Columbia River should be removed at the Hanford nuclear site before the end of summer. Hanford workers have started to pump contaminated water from ...
Another month of tours of historic B Reactor on the Hanford nuclear site will be offered before tours close at least through 2025. Once construction starts, possibly as soon as August, tours will ...