Washington State Tunnel Collapse/Nuclear Scare

[SBFORDTECH]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/05/09/hanford-plutonium-finishing-plant-tunnel-collapse-triggers-alert.html

Hundreds of workers took cover after a tunnel in a Washington plutonium finishing plant collapsed Tuesday morning.


The tunnel at the Hanford plant near Richland was full of contaminated particles, including radioactive trains that transport fuel rods, KING5 reported.

The U.S. Department of Energy Richland Operations Office activated the Hanford Emergency Operations Center at 8:26 a.m., after an alert was declared, according to the official Hanford site.

[Jimbo]

https://www.google.com/amp/abcnews.go.com/amp/US/hanford-nuclear-emergency/story%3Fid%3D47323670

The tunnel was built to house rail cars that were filled with contaminated equipment and moved into the tunnels during the Cold War, the center said. It was sealed in the mid-1990s and is checked periodically, it added.

"That tunnel feeds into a longer tunnel that extends hundreds more feet and contains 28 rail cars loaded with contaminated equipment," the center said in a statement Tuesday night. "The hole opened up in the shorter tunnel near where it joins the longer tunnel."

[Jimbo]

http://www.heraldnet.com/news/rick-perry-says-hole-has-been-filled-at-hanford-nuclear-site/

A hole that was discovered this week on top of a nuclear waste storage tunnel has been plugged with dirt, ending an emergency situation at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry said Thursday.