70-year-old WA nuclear reactor stack toppled with explosives. Watch it drop

The concrete stack stood 175 feet tall, much shorter than when the reactor was irradiating fuel to produce plutonium.
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Video: 175-foot Cold War-era nuclear exhaust tower demolished at Hanford Site

A towering concrete exhaust stack at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state was ...
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Hanford Site finally turns nuclear waste into glass

The Hanford Tank Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant was built to turn that nuclear waste into glass; it started ...
The Spokesman-Review

Eastern WA nuclear workers who inhaled plutonium, radioactive particles are suing

KENNEWICK – The two workers who took the brunt of contamination during a release of radioactivity in a 2021 incident within the Northwest’s only commercial nuclear power reactor have sued Energy ...

Feds think they can do Eastern WA nuclear waste cleanup faster, cheaper. Here’s how

The Department of Energy is looking at a way to speed up Hanford nuclear site environmental cleanup by having some waste with ...
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This Is How NASA Uses Nasty Radioactive Plutonium to Conquer Space

Plutonium is not a fun word to speak, hear, or write. Used to depict an actinide metal we've known about for some time, it has become synonymous with human-caused destruction on a hard-to-comprehend ...
Los Angeles Times

Sites with radioactive material more vulnerable as climate change increases wildfire, flood risks

Climate change increasingly threatens some of the nation’s most sensitive sites, including research laboratories, military facilities and power plants with radioactive material. Extreme heat and ...

Experts sound alarm after officials continue to ignore ticking time bomb near nuclear lab: 'A longstanding lack of urgency'

State regulators said that years of missed cleanup deadlines for the toxic by-products from the Cold War era are increasing the risks of nuclear contamination. With the recent expiration of the ...
The Hill

Plutonium pit ‘panic’ threatens America’s nuclear ambitions

This is the second story in a series about Sentinel, the Air Force’s nuclear missile modernization project. Other stories touch on the challenges in the surrounding communities near Sentinel ...