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

Some of the nation's most sensitive sites like Los Alamos, Santa Susana, and Hanford face increased threats from climate change due to their radioactive material content.
Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico experienced a 2000 wildfire that came close to a radioactive waste site.
Hanford nuclear site in Washington, where the U.S. Made atomic bombs, was not reached by a fire, protecting plutonium pits in fire-resistant containers.

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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.

2 months ago·United States

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

By TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press 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. Many sites a…

2 months ago·Colorado Springs, United States

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

By TAMMY WEBBER Associated Press As Texas wildfires burned toward the nation’s primary nuclear weapons facility, workers hurried to ensure nothing flammable was around buildings and storage areas. When the fires showed no sign of slowing, Pantex Plant officials urgently called on local contractors, who arrived within minutes with bulldozers to dig trenches and enlarge fire breaks for the sprawling complex where nuclear weapons are assembled and…

2 months ago·Idaho Falls, United States

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

2 months ago·Panama City, United States

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Winnipeg Free Press

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

As Texas wildfires burned toward the nation’s primary nuclear weapons facility, workers hurried to ensure nothing flammable was around buildings and storage areas. When the fires showed no sign of […]

2 months ago·Winnipeg, Canada

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

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

2 months ago·Canada

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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