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. …

2025年1月17日 · Hanford produced nearly two-thirds of the plutonium used in the US nuclear weapons stockpile, including materials for the Trinity Test and atomic bombs used to help end …

2024年12月23日 · Hanford Site, large U.S. nuclear site established during World War II for the production of plutonium, some of which was used in the first atomic bomb.

2025年1月20日 · Nowhere in the DOE Complex is cleanup more challenging than at the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington. Hanford made more than 20 million pieces of uranium metal …

2024年8月26日 · The B Reactor National Historic Landmark at the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington state was the world’s first full-scale plutonium production reactor. Created as part …

2024年10月15日 · Eighty years ago this September, the first industrial nuclear reactor went online near Richland, Washington, on what would become known as the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

2025年1月2日 · Learn more about the world-changing history, science and engineering behind the Manhattan Project and B Reactor, as well as the history of Native American and early settler …

2024年7月15日 · Tucked away in the desert at the Hanford site northwest of Richland is the historic B Reactor, the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor built during World War II to …

2024年9月24日 · During the Manhattan Project, Hanford’s mission was industrial-scale plutonium production by using nuclear reactors to irradiate uranium fuel rods, which were then dissolved …

The Hanford Site, a 580-square-mile section of semi- arid desert in southeast Washington, was established in 1943 as part of the Manhattan Project to produce plutonium for national defense.