A 20-foot hole in the roof of a tunnel at Washington state's Hanford nuclear waste site will be filled with clean soil. Earlier in the day, workers noticed that a section of the tunnel had caved in. The tunnel -- which is made of wood and concrete and covered in 8 feet of soil -- was constructed during the Cold War to hold rail cars loaded with equipment that had been contaminated in the process of plutonium production. It has been sealed since the mid-1990s.
There is no initial evidence that workers have been exposed to radiation or that there has been an "airborne radiological release." Government spend billions trying to repair site.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/09/us/hanford-nuclear-site-tunnels-contamination/index.html
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