Officials: Underground waste tank leaking liquid at Washington nuclear site
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Officials said an underground tank stored at Hanford's B Tank Farm in Washington was leaking contaminated liquid into the ground. Photo courtesy of U.S. Department of Energy/Website
April 30 (UPI) -- An underground radioactive chemical waste tank stored in southeast Washington is leaking gallons of liquid a day into the soil, state officials said.
The Department of Ecology for the state of Washington announced the leak in a statement Thursday, identifying the tank as B-109 at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, which is about 170 miles southwest of Spokane.
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