[Source: The Guardian, full text: (LINK).]
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Radioactive waste leaking from tanks at Washington state nuclear site
23 February 2013
Governor says news is 'disturbing for Washingtonians' but officials deny any immediate danger of contaminating Columbia river - Six underground storage tanks at a nuclear facility in Washington state are leaking radioactive waste, but there is no immediate risk to human health, officials say. The newly discovered leaks, at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, come one week after the US energy department revealed that radioactive waste was found to be escaping from one tank at Hanford.
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-23 February 2013
Governor says news is 'disturbing for Washingtonians' but officials deny any immediate danger of contaminating Columbia river - Six underground storage tanks at a nuclear facility in Washington state are leaking radioactive waste, but there is no immediate risk to human health, officials say. The newly discovered leaks, at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, come one week after the US energy department revealed that radioactive waste was found to be escaping from one tank at Hanford.
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