Sites with radioactive material more vulnerable as climate change increases wildfire, flood risks – Winnipeg Free Press
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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.
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.
Last year LANL hired 2,500 workers, the most ever, but that growth is expected to slow even as the lab works toward manufacturing 30 plutonium pits a year for warheads.