the Hanford Site was set up in 1943 by the Manhattan Project for the sole purpose of producing plutonium on an industrial scale. Using nine nuclear reactors and five large plutonium processing ...

A pumping system at the Hanford Site runs groundwater through ... nuclear site's B Reactor in 2008.AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File The B Reactor was the world's first full-scale plutonium production ...

As part of the Manhattan Project, Hanford produced the plutonium ... to supply the US with a nuclear arsenal during the Cold War. Six more reactors were built by 1955. Production continued into ...

As part of the Manhattan Project, 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' nuclear ...

The Hanford ... a brief production hiatus. But in 1948, plutonium became a priority again. This time it was to supply the US with a nuclear arsenal during the Cold War. Six more reactors were ...

Workers in part of the center of the Hanford nuclear ... is left from the past production of plutonium from World War II through the Cold War for the nation’s nuclear weapons program.

He was earlier praised as a man who “cares all too deeply about the children of the world who all too frequently end up as ...

The waste was left from the past production of plutonium from World War II through ... nuclear waste. Currently, there are thousands of metric tons of used solid fuel from nuclear power plants ...

Production continued into the late 1980s. When the plant was up and running, using nine nuclear reactors and five reprocessing plants, it produced about 65% of the plutonium used by the US government ...