Sites with radioactive material more vulnerable as climate change increases wildfire, flood risks

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As Texas wildfires burned toward the nation's primary nuclear weapons facility, workers hurried to ensure nothing flammable was around buildings and storage areas.

As Texas wildfires burned toward the nation's primary nuclear weapons facility, workers hurried to ensure nothing flammable was around buildings and storage areas.

'___That realization has begun to change how the government addresses threats at some of the nation's most sensitive sites.The Department of Energy in 2022 required its existing sites to assess climate change risks to 'mission-critical functions and operations,' including waste storage, and to develop plans to address them. It cited wildfires at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories and a 2021 deep freeze that damaged 'critical facilities' at Pantex.

 

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