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KING-TV reports that "a tunnel full of highly contaminated materials collapsed" in a reprocessing facility at the Hanford nuclear site. An official said "The facility does have radiological contamination right now but there is no indication of a radiological release." The U.S. Department of Energy released statements (archived copy) saying that employees were "told to shelter in place" and that non-essential employees were sent home.
additional coverage:
- Susannah Frame of KING-TV via Twitter (photo)
- Tri-City Herald (video)
- Western Journalism
- Yakima Herald-Republic
- Washington Post
- Seattle Times
- Popular Mechanics
- USA Today
- Fox News
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Tunnel Collapses at Hanford Nuclear Reservation
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How many QA engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
3: 1 to screw it in and 2 to say "I told you so" when it doesn't work.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by khallow on Thursday May 11 2017, @03:39AM
...idiots come crying out of the woodwork in defense of nuclear "BEING A SAFE ALTERNATIVE TO COAL!!1"
Sounds like you're well positioned to give us this no-doubt intriguing viewpoint.
And no, thorium is not safer, either. Radioactive waste is radioactive waste, regardless of what it's created by and who it influences.
Except when it's not waste. The whole point behind recycling, nuclear or otherwise, is to turn waste into something useful, and hence, not waste. And you may find the rest of us hard to convince that what happens in a nuclear weapons research facility more than half a century old, due to many decades of neglect, is somehow relevant to nuclear power today.