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Tunnel Collapse Puts Hanford on Take Cover Alert Near Purex Plant
Tunnel Collapse Puts Hanford on Take Cover Alert Near Purex Plant
Tunnel Collapse Puts Hanford on Take Cover Alert Near Purex Plant
According to multiple sources, including KNDU-TV, our news partner, there's been some sort of possible collapse of a railroad tunnel at the Purex site at Hanford. Purex stands for Plutonium Uranium Extraction Plant. The plant is in the 200 East area, and in it used to be the workhorse of the area, it was used to extract plutonium from irradiated (HOT) fuel rods from the reactors. It is no longer u