Emergency Declared At Nuclear-Contaminated Site In Washington State

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http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/09/527605496/emergency-declared-at-nuclear-contaminated-site-in-washington-state

The Department of Energy has declared an emergency at a nuclear-contaminated site in Washington state, after soil caved in over a portion of a tunnel containing rail cars contaminated with nuclear waste.

"All personnel in the immediate are have been accounted for — they are safe — and there is no evidence of a radiological release," Destry Henderson, spokesperson for the Hanford site's emergency operations center, said in a brief statement on Facebook.

Some employees have been evacuated and others told to move indoors as a "precaution," officials say. Anna King of the Northwest News Network, a public radio station collaboration, reports that approximately 3,000 other workers in the area were originally taking cover indoors. Some have since been released home, but those closest to the tunnel remain indoors.

The Hanford Site, about 150 miles southeast of Seattle, is a former nuclear production complex and home to a long-running, challenging and sometimes troubled cleanup operation.

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[stonecutter357]

1. oh crap.

[cilla4progress]

2. Yah...

My neighborhood.

[BSdetect]

3. And when they calculated the cost of nuclear power these events were never added.

Like de-commissioning nuclear power stations.

Or Three Mile Island