No one knows the day or the hour! If you think this is just a problem of old waste, do a search in our blog for WIPP. The current handling of nuclear waste is at least as appalling, and probably more so. Another tunnel at Hanford was reported as collapsed on the same day that Trump fired FBI director Comey.

“• Structural failure must be anticipated

– The time of failure— today, tomorrow or a year— is unknown.

– Corrosion reduces the strength of the tunnel.

– The full extent and rate of corrosion is unknown.

• Failure puts the workers, public and environs at riskfrom an airborne radiological release.”















































https://www.hanford.gov/page.cfm/PUREXTunnelsInformation

Click to access CHPRC_Tunnel_2_Ecology_Public_Meeting_180827.pdf

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/hanford/second-hanford-radioactive-tunnel-collapse-expected/281-588681744

2,680 mrem is 26.8 mSv PER HOUR

The annual exposure to the public from nuclear facilities officially allowed by the US EPA is 0.25 mSv and the US NRC is 1 mSv.

Last collapse was same day as Comey firing: https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2017/05/10/radioactive-waste-filled-tunnel-near-hanford-plutonium-uranium-extraction-plant-reported-collapsed-today/

https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2017/07/05/hanford-second-nuclear-waste-tunnel-at-high-risk-of-collapse-as-trump-aims-to-remove-protective-nm-perimeter-trump-budget-fails-to-adequately-fund-cleanup/