Search Results: Uranium Production
Part of the Department of Energy nuclear weapons complex, the original function of this plant was to produce uranium metals for reactors at Hanford, Washington, as well as for other DOE weapons facilities. Fernald was also the DOE's primary thorium storage site....
Inside this geometric mound, with a skin of coarsely crushed rock, is a demolished uranium mill and its radioactive tailings. The mill was buried in 1992 by the Department of Energy, one of 24 uranium mill tailings sites in the US that are being remediated as part of...
A former explosives production plant, turned into a uranium processing plant from 1955 to 1966. Now heavily contaminated with radioactivity and undergoing remediation, including on site incineration.
This reactor at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation was built in 1982 for breeder reactor research and enriched uranium production. Though it was closed in 1992, it has been placed on "Hot Standby" status, with the possibility of producing tritium and medical isotopes for...