The B Reactor at the Hanford site was the world’s first full-scale nuclear reactor. Here, scientists and engineers pioneered the technology behind nuclear reactors.

The design allowed the reactor to produce plutonium-239 by irradiating naturally occurring uranium with neutrons. Visitors to Hanford’s B Reactor see the towering front face of the reactor.

Opinion Small reactors at Hanford: Déjà vu all over again Sep. 11, 2023 at 1:48 pm ...

RICHLAND (AP) - Hanford's B Reactor celebrated its 70th anniversary this week with public tours and live music. Friday marked 70 years since the reactor was started up for the first time.

The defueled reactor compartment of USS City of Corpus Christi, a retired nuclear-powered submarine, floats under the Columbia River Interstate 182 bridge on its way to the Hanford nuclear site.

Local News Northwest Travel Hanford B Reactor will soon close for tourists. What to know if you go July 15, 2024 at 1:25 pm By Larissa Babiak ...

B Reactor and the two other Hanford reactors operating in the mid-1940s were 200 MWd/MTU reactors, Schwantes said. There was one other possibility, a research reactor that produced plutonium 239 ...

Workers lifted a 1,000-ton reactor out of the ground Wednesday at Hanford and started it on its way to a disposal site on the nuclear reservation. The reactor was used in the 1960s to test fuel ...

The design allowed the reactor to produce plutonium-239 by irradiating naturally occurring uranium with neutrons. Visitors to Hanford’s B Reactor see the towering front face of the reactor.

Now’s the time to visit Hanford B Reactor. What you’ll see inside the historic WA site By Larissa Babiak Updated July 18, 2024 11:28 AM ...

Free tours at the Hanford site’s historic B Reactor in Eastern Washington are extended through October 2024.