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HANFORD, Wash. (AP) – U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry says a hole that developed in the top of a nuclear waste storage tunnel at Hanford has been filled.
Perry says the next step is to reduce risks at the aging tunnel.
The hole was discovered Tuesday morning on top of a nuclear waste storage tunnel.
“There was an eight foot deep cap of soil on top of the facility and it collapsed.”
Hanford spokesman Mark Heeter says the tunnel was built in 1956.
Heeter says the cause of the partial collapse is still not known.
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