The mood around Department of Energy offices in Richland is grim as Elon Musk reportedly plans to eliminate half of the ...

Fossil fuel executive Chris Wright has become the nation’s energy secretary, despite questions about his commitment to ...

Hanford's B Reactor holds a unique place in history as the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor. Built during World War II, this groundbreaking facility was part of the Manhattan Project ...

These tech giants recognize that the next generation of microprocessors to be used for AI calculations at data centers will ...

Hanford gave a lot to this country and we ... an advanced nuclear technology startup company developing micro reactors. He graduated from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then did ...

But one project on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation is progressing at a much lower price. The federal government is moving forward with the “cocooning” of eight plutonium production reactors at ...

Toward that end, the Manhattan Project dismantled Chicago Pile-1 and rapidly moved to build larger reactors at Hanford, Washington and Oak Ridge, Tennessee to produce uranium and plutonium. The main ...

The U.S. Department of Energy offers free, four-hour bus tours of the Hanford site. The tours discuss Hanford’s role in the top-secret Manhattan project - the race by the United States and its ...

In 2023, our Clark Public Utilities commissioners voted to contribute $200,000 to Energy Northwest to pursue small modular nuclear reactors at Hanford. Questions and concerns were raised by ...