The network received the first snapshot from the site of the collapse of the nuclear waste storage tunnel in Hanford, Washington State (270 kilometers east of Seattle), according to Apostrophe.

As a result of the incident, none of the storage staff was injured. Some of them were evacuated, others were told to go to the shelter, block ventilation and not eat.

The US Department of Energy said that radioactive contamination at the site of the incident was not registered. There they assured that the subsidence was noticed during the preventive works.

Energy officials confirmed the representative of the Department of Ecology of Washington Randy Bradbury.

However, formerly director of the organization Hanford Challenge Tom Carpenter called the situation alarming.

Earlier, the cause of the extraordinary incident in Henford called the displacement of the soil.