A nuclear reactor in Washington state that produced plutonium for the first atomic blast is now a National Historic Landmark.

In a cramped control room, a bright yellow sticker cautions workers about critical radiation alarms. Now a novelty stuck on a wall between dials that haven’t spun in decades, the sign hints at the enormity of the plant’s mission.The world’s first...

Researchers are studying a colony of bats that live in an underground concrete structure at the Hanford nuclear reservation in hopes of determining how to provide a new home for them once the structure is demolished.The large clearwell near the Columbia...

It’s a corny tribute to the late Gerald Ford _ and it can be fully appreciated only from the air.A farm not far from where Ford grew up created a maze in a cornfield in the likeness of the nation’s 38th president, who died last December.Each year, Gull...