Climate change increasingly threatens some of the nation's most sensitive sites, including research laboratories, military facilities and power plants with radioactive material. Extreme heat and drought, longer fire seasons with larger, more intense blazes and supercharged rainstorms that can lead to catastrophic flooding are forcing a reckoning that environmentalists and experts say is long overdue.
” The National Nuclear Security Administration’s environmental safety and health division, which oversees active Energy Department sites, will develop “crucial” methodologies to address climate risks in permitting and site assessments, said John Weckerle, the division’s director of environmental regulatory affairs. “We all know the climate is changing. Everybody’s thinking about, what effect are we having on the climate?” Weckerle said. “Now we need to flip that on its head and say, ‘OK ...
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