Fat Man, the nuclear bomb that was detonated over ... residents awoke to the news that Hanford was one of the secret sites responsible for the atomic bombs. "Tongues wagged, workmen talked ...

The Hanford nuclear site contractor operating the lab that analyzes highly radioactive tank waste samples earned 95% of its ...

Many in Richland, Washington, remain proud of "the atomic bomb that ended the war." The city's Hanford Site is a decommissioned nuclear production facility that was part of the U.S. government ...

Richland, WA The city of Richland is considering selling 425 acres of former Hanford nuclear site land for a $4.5 billion project related to advanced nuclear fuel. The company interested in the ...

Tri-City Herald file World Citizens for Peace may be best known for four decades of Richland ceremonies to commemorate the Aug. 9 anniversary of the atomic bomb fueled with Hanford plutonium ...

A historic nuclear reactor in Washington State was a critical part of the Manhattan Project, a site where plutonium was ...

Cause for celebration: after 15 years as a company town servicing the big-secret plutonium works known as the Hanford Atomic Project, Richland had voted itself out from under the paternalistic ...

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's nuclear arsenal during the Cold War.