As Texas wildfires burned toward the nation's primary nuclear weapons facility, workers hurried to ensure nothing flammable was around buildings and storage areas.
Most plutonium and other radioactive material is contained in concrete and steel structures or underground storage designed to withstand fire. And many sites are on large tracts in remote areas where risk to the public from a radiation release would be minimal. Even so, potential threats have arisen. In 2000, a wildfire burned one-third of the 580-square-mile Hanford site, which produced plutonium for the U.S. atomic weapons program and is considered the nation's most radioactive place.
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