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Tunnel with nuclear waste collapses in Washington state

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By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS

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Get Perry, Pruitt and Trump out there with shovels and let's see what they say about the environment then!

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Only 8 feet of soil on top of the tunnels? Absolutely unbelievable.

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"U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry was briefed on the incident"

And thank heavens, we can all rest easy now, with this absolute moron on the job. He makes Trump look Churchillian.

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Sometimes saying 'They should have known' or 'I told you so' becomes SOOOOOO redundant.

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Ferguson said that since the early 1980s, hundreds of workers have been exposed to vapors escaping from the tanks and that those breathing the vapors developed nosebleeds, chest and lung pain, headaches, coughing, sore throats, irritated eyes and difficulty breathing.

Lawyers for the Energy Department have said no evidence has been provided showing workers have been harmed by vapors.

They would say that, though, wouldn't they? Depressing.

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Most of the waste deposit tunnels at Hanford are now operated by more than twice the time they were designed for. One of the workers at Hanford reported a stability problem with the exact tunnel which has broken now back in 2011. Obviously nobody cared. Does that sound familiar to anybody?

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