Workers Fear Radiation Exposure After Nuclear Waste Storage Tunnels Collapse in Washington

in #news8 years ago

Managers ordered hundreds of workers to "take cover" when a tunnel storing highly radioactive waste collapsed early Tuesday morning at the US’s largest deposit of nuclear waste in the country, Washington’s Hanford Nuclear Site. Site managers said no one was injured. The incident comes months after RT discovered that dangerously high amounts of gamma radiation were already contaminating the area. RT America’s Alexey Yaroshevsky has the details.

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