Emergency declared at US Hanford nuclear waste site after tunnel collapse
Emergency declared at US Hanford nuclear waste site after tunnel collapse
Published time: 9 May, 2017 16:34
Edited time: 9 May, 2017 17:14
The US Department of Energy has declared an emergency at the Hanford, Washington nuclear waste storage site, after a tunnel used to store contaminated materials caved in.
A tunnel near the plutonium-uranium extraction plant (PUREX) collapsed early Tuesday morning local time, most likely from vibrations produced by nearby road work, KING-TV reported.
The tunnel was used to store highly radioactive materials and equipment, such as trains used to transport nuclear fuel rods.
The PUREX facility was built in the 1950s and used until 1988 to extract plutonium from around 70,000 fuel rods in total. The building has been vacant for nearly twenty years and “remains highly contaminated,”according to the Hanford website. The rail cars used to transport the fuel rods from the nuclear reactors to the processing facility are buried inside a nearby tunnel.
https://www.rt.com/usa/387760-hanford-tunnel-collapse-nuclear/
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