Sites With Radioactive Material More Vulnerable as Climate Change Increases Wildfire, Flood Risks usnews.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from usnews.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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.