In 1945, the Hanford Site in Washington State produced plutonium for the Manhattan Project, changing the course of history. Robert Oppenheimer’s haunting words, “Now I am become Death,” echoed as the ...

Marshall initiated search for a suitable bomb laboratory site. Oppenheimer offered the Los Alamos Ranch School as an alternate site.

Chemically separating plutonium from uranium fuel irradiated in Hanford reactors, has left 56 million gallons of radioactive and other chemical waste stored in Hanford underground tanks.

The Plutonium Finishing Plant at Hanford has been torn down to the ground since this photo was taken, but still has highly radioactively contaminated tanks and trenches below ground.

After manufacturing plutonium for U.S. atomic weapons from 1949 to 1989 and 20 years of cleanup prep and phased demolition, the Plutonium Finishing Plant at the U.S. Energy Dept.’s Hanford ...

The plant operated from 1949 to 1989 and workers created hockey puck-sized plutonium “buttons” for shipment to nuclear weapons-manufacturing facilities.

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 ...

Hanford's shuttered Plutonium Finishing Plant has not produced its titular plutoium "buttons" since in closed in 1989, but crews just finished the main demolition. Producer: CH2M HILL Plateau ...

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.

An unusually snowy winter slowed work at the Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant. Courtesy Department of Energy An unusually snowy winter, some heavy rains and days with high winds slowed progress.