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Tunnel with nuclear waste collapses at Hanford
May 10, 2017 4 a.m.

Tunnel with nuclear waste collapses at Hanford

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A portion of an underground tunnel containing rail cars full of radioactive waste collapsed Tuesday at a sprawling storage facility in a remote area of Washington state, forcing an evacuation of some workers at the site that made plutonium for nuclear weapons for decades after World War II.