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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.
Officials fear reactors will be used to power military bases on artificial islands in the South China Sea.
The Georgia reactors came online Monday — seven years late at a cost of $35 billion, more than double the initial $14 billion estimate.