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05/12/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Plutonium processing tunnel collapses at Hanford nuclear facility in Washington

Nuclear experts have called it “an underground Chernobyl waiting to happen,” and now the Hanford Nuclear Reservation 200 miles outside of Seattle has gone into lockdown after a tunnel filled with highly contaminated nuclear waste collapsed. Around 4,800 people working there were instructed to either evacuate or take cover. As the situation intensified, they were […]

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