Hanford Site - Historic Photos

Historic Photos

  • Cooling water retention basins at the F-Reactor

  • Underground tank farm with 12 of the site's 177 waste storage tanks

  • Inside one of the waste storage tanks

  • Inside the PUREX facility

  • View of the central plateau from Rattlesnake Mountain

  • The government town of Richland in the early days of the site

  • Hanford workers lining up for paychecks

  • Hanford scientists feeding radioactive food to sheep

  • Testing a sheep's thyroid for radiation

  • Cold War-era billboard

  • "Atomic Frontier Days" parade in Richland

  • The Fast Flux Test Facility

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