The high-hazard Plutonium Finishing Plant at the Hanford nuclear reservation will not be torn down by a Sept. 30 deadline, officials said Sept. 1.

TRI-CITIES, Wash. (AP) - The demolition of a major plutonium plant at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state is underway.Crews started tearing down the Plutonium Reclamation Facility ...

The Plutonium Finishing Plant at the Hanford nuclear reservation site has been demolished. Workers for Jacobs Engineering-owned CH2M finished the high hazard work on the nation’s largest ...

YAKIMA -- For four decades, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation made plutonium for the nation's nuclear weapons arsenal, including the atomic bomb that devastated Nagasaki in World War II. Now, more ...

For the first time in 60 years, Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant is off the electrical grid. Lights go out at Hanford plutonium plant | Northwest | yakimaherald.com Skip to main content ...

For the first time in 60 years, Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant is off the electrical grid. Power has been disconnected for the safety of workers doing the final cleanout of the main portion ...

TRI-CITIES — The demolition of a major plutonium plant at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state is underway. Crews started tearing down the Plutonium Reclamation Facility on ...

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is building a $4.8 billion plant to turn weapons-grade plutonium into fuel at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River site in South Carolina.

At Hanford, in southeastern Washington, contractors have just completed much of the demolition work at the site’s Plutonium Finishing Plant. But now crews have to finish the job. And that’s ...

Nearly two-thirds of the plutonium for the nation’s nuclear-weapons program during the Cold War was processed inside the plant at the Hanford nuclear reservation.

Reporting from Richland, Wash. — As crews demolished a shuttered nuclear weapons plant during 2017 in central Washington, specks of plutonium were swept up in high gusts and blown miles across a ...