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

Climate climate change increasingly threatens research laboratories, weapons sites and power plants across the nation that handle or are contaminated with radioactive material or perform critical energy and defense research.

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

Climate change increasingly threatens research laboratories, weapons sites and power plants across the nation that handle or are contaminated with radioactive material or perform critical energy and defense research.

The DOE recently required sites to assess vulnerability. Now the agency will decide how to consider future climate risks when issuing permits.

Climate change increasingly threatens research laboratories, weapons sites and power plants across the nation that handle or are contaminated with radioactive material or perform critical energy and defense research.