Critical Situation! Nuclear Emergency Declared Hanford Nuke Waste Site Washington (Video)

5-9-17

A portion of a storage tunnel that contains rail cars full of radioactive waste collapsed Tuesday morning, forcing an emergency declaration at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeastern Washington state. A tunnel at the Hanford nuclear plant in Washington state plant collapsed on Tuesday morning, prompting a mass evacuation.

Hundreds of employees of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation were told to “take cover” after a tunnel in the plutonium finishing plant collapsed around 8:30 a.m. in Washington state.

Officials detected no release of radiation and no workers were injured, said Randy Bradbury, a spokesman for the Washington state Department of Ecology.

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Tunnel with nuclear waste collapses in Washington state

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SPOKANE, Wash. – An emergency was declared Tuesday at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeastern Washington after a portion of a tunnel that contains rail cars full of nuclear waste collapsed. 

The alert was activated shortly before 8:30 a.m. at the Hanford Emergency Operations Center, according to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

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The accident occurred at a facility known as PUREX, located in the middle of the sprawling Hanford site, which is half the size of Rhode Island. The closed PUREX plant was part of the nation’s nuclear weapons production complex.  

Authorities say the collapse took place within one of two rail tunnels under the PUREX site, which contain contaminated materials. No radiation has been detected. 

Crews discovered the subsidence of soil, which appears to be two to four feet deep, during a routine surveillance of the area, according to the DOE. 

No workers were inside the tunnel when it collapsed, but nearby crews were evacuated as a precaution. Other employees were asked to secure ventilation and shelter indoors. The entrance to the site has been restricted. 

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Authorities believe the collapse may have been caused by road crews doing construction above the tunnel location, according to the DOE.   

The federal government created Hanford at the height of World War II as part of a hush-hush project to build the atomic bomb. The site produced plutonium for the world’s first atomic blast and for one of two atomic bombs dropped on Japan. It continued production through the Cold War. 

Today, it is the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site, with cleanup expected to last decades. It contains about 56 million gallons of radioactive waste, most of it in 177 underground tanks.  

Hanford, which has more than 9,000 employees, is located near Richland, about 200 miles southeast of Seattle.    SOURCE

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