HANFORD –
The American authorities have Tuesday, staff were evacuated from the former nuclear complex, including Hanford in the state of Washington. Possible is a part of a tunnel collapsed, causing contaminated material could be released.
There are no reports about injuries or the release of hazardous substances. In reactors in Hanford was in the Second world War started with the production of plutonium for the nuclear weapons program of the USA.
In 1980 came an end to the plutoniumproductie and in 1989 began with the cleaning of the premises. The complex is now used for the storage of nuclear waste.