Photo Gallery - Hanford Site

Gallery: F Area Complete

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Keywords: F Reactor, F Area, cleanup, remediation

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U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and its contractors celebrate the clean up of the F Reactor Area, the first reactor area at the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington state to be fully remediated. Cleanup contractors combined to demolish 112 facilities, clean up 88 waste sites and in so doing removed 1.5 million tons of contaminated material during cleanup operations on the two square mile F Area. F Area is home to F Reactor, the third of Hanford’s nine plutonium production reactors built to produce plutonium for the nation’s defense program during both World War II and the Cold War. The reactor operated from 1945 to 1965 and was placed in interim safe storage in 2003.

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