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Hundreds of workers at the Department of Energy’s Hanford nuclear site in Washington state had to “take cover” Tuesday morning after the collapse of 20-foot-long portion of a tunnel used to store contaminated radioactive materials.

The Energy Department said it activated its emergency operations protocol after reports of a “cave-in” at the 200 East Area in Hanford, a sprawling complex about 200 miles from Seattle where the government has been working to clean up radioactive materials left over from the country’s nuclear weapons program

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Originally posted by carthage
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...m=.8f4a5411f038



Apparently a report in 2015 said that there was a potential for hazards and was likely never followed up on. Do you trust the government that the situation is under control over there?