Hanford Plutonium Finishing Plant

Workers at Hanford’s Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) mark the final chapter of a facility once critical to our nation’s defenses. For more than 40 years, employees at PFP manufactured plutonium that was then sent to other government sites to create nuclear weapons. Today, the Department of Energy and contractor CH2M HILL are working to clean out and tear down the buildings that make up the PFP complex. The facilities are among the most hazardous on the Hanford Site, with radiological and chemical hazards inside… remnants of the days when the plant was the last stop of the plutonium production process at Hanford. The Department of Energy plans to complete cleanup and demolition of the complex by the fall of 2016 leaving behind just a concrete slab. This video produced by the Hanford Communities, provides a look at the challenging work underway to demolish PFP.