Wildfire Threat to Texas Nuclear Weapons Facility Highlights Intersecting Risks
Union of Concerned Scientists
MARCH 7, 2024
Last week, Texas’s Windy Deuce Fire, one of several large fires that broke out in the state’s panhandle region, passed within a few miles of a nuclear weapons facility and necessitated an emergency evacuation of nonessential employees. Worryingly, they also forced a temporary shutdown and evacuation of the Pantex nuclear weapons facility.
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