Manhattan Project

RICHLAND (AP) — The annual tours of the Hanford portion of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park will start on April 17. Registration for the popular tours opens online at 8 a.m. Monday. The Tri-City Herald reports that about 14,000 bus seats are available to tour either Hanford's historic B Reactor or the old Hanford town site...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A report is scheduled to be released on the health effects of the people who lived near the site of the world's first atomic bomb test. The Tularosa Basin Downwinders Consortium will release the health assessment report Friday on residents of a historic Hispanic village of Tularosa near the Trinity Test in the New Mexico desert...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — An app that lets users experience Los Alamos during the nation's top-secret World War II nuclear development program now is available on Android phones. The Los Alamos Monitor reports that the "Los Alamos: The Secret City of The Manhattan Project" recently was released for Android months after the iPhone app was made public...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (AP) — U.S. Department of Energy contractors are scheduled to start removing toxic contaminated soil in northern New Mexico leftover the Manhattan Project and early atomic Cold War research. The Los Alamos Monitor reports work is expected to begin this week on the south-facing slopes of Los Alamos Canyon...

WASHINGTON (AP) — More than 70 years ago scientists working in secret created the atomic bomb that ended World War II and ushered the world into the nuclear age. On Tuesday, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz formally established the Manhattan Project National Historical Park, as they sat in a federal building near the White House where plans for the bomb were develo