Numerous Department of Energy nuclear weapons complex sites are sweltering under heat advisories due to what television weather forecasters are calling a “heat dome.”
“Extreme HeatRisk impacts will expand from the Midwest into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast today,” the National Weather Service said on its website Monday.
Localities with temperatures exceeding 90 degrees Fahrenheit and Weather Service heat advisories on Monday evening included Aiken S.C., (where Savannah River Site is located); Oak Ridge, Tenn. (Oak Ridge Site); Piketon, Ohio (Portsmouth Site); Paducah, Ky. (Paducah Site); and Kansas City, Mo. (Kansas City National Security Campus).
In addition to temperatures in the high 80s and a severe thunderstorm watch, Carlsbad, N.M., near DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, was also under a flood watch, according to the Weather Service forecast.