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