A storage tunnel in the US containing radioactive waste has collapsed forcing the authorities to declare an emergency.
The emergency situation was declared in Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeastern Washington. The tunnel contains rail cars full of radioactive waste. Officials say no workers have been injured and no radiation release has been detected. The accident happened at a facility that used to be part of a U.S. nuclear weapons production complex. The area is now the largest depository containing 56 million gallons of radioactive waste, still waiting to be cleaned. The site produced the plutonium for most of the country's nuclear arsenal during the Second World War including the deadly bombs dropped on Japan.
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