NNSA Delays Urgent Research on Plutonium “Pit” Aging But Spends Billions on Nuclear Weapons Bomb Cores
This week, CCNS highlights portions of a recent press release by Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment (Tri-Valley CARES), and the Savannah River Site Watch about the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Their piece suggests NNSA does not have its priorities straight in neither producing up-to-date information on the way plutonium appears to age nor providing this information in a timely manner to the public. The entire press release is posted at nuclearactive.org
25 Apr 20244min
Continuing Safety Problems with New WIPP Shaft
Recent monthly reports by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board relate disturbing stories about near-miss operational incidents in the fifth shaft, under construction, at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). The underground federal radioactive waste disposal site is located 2,150 feet below ground surface in a salt formation almost 30 miles east of Carlsbad, New Mexico. The Board has reported broken cables, misaligned transport platforms for workers to reach the underground, and workers stuck in the new shaft.
23 Apr 20244min
Stop Forever WIPP Coalition’s First Annual Plutonium Trail Caravan on Saturday, April 6 th from Camel Rock to Lamy – Join Us!
The Coalition invites you to join the Saturday, April 6 th Caravan in your vehicle at the Camel Rock geologic formation on the Camel Rock Frontage Road in Tesuque at 9:30 am.
4 Apr 20244min
The First Annual Plutonium Trail Caravan is on Saturday April 6 th - Join Us!
Did you know that the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) was supposed to complete its 25-year waste disposal mission and begin closing on Tuesday, March 26 th ? You may know about it because WIPP officials had a party.
28 Mar 20244min
WIPP Opened 25 Years Ago; It Was Supposed to Close Next Week
Did you know that on Friday, March 26, 1999, the first shipment of plutonium- contaminated nuclear weapons waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) reached the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)?
21 Mar 20244min
Observing the 45th Anniversary of the Worst U.S. Commercial Nuclear Power Plant Accident
Thursday, March 28 th marks the 45 th anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident in Pennsylvania. A new documentary, “RADIOACTIVE: The Women of Three Mile Island,” tells the harrowing story of the 1979 accident involving the release of radioactive and toxic materials into the air, soils, water and into bodies young and old.
13 Mar 20244min
Public Comments Needed about Protecting Aquifer from Hexavalent Chromium
For twenty years, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) has struggled to contain the cancer-causing hexavalent chromium plume in the regional drinking water aquifer below the nuclear weapons site. The horizontal and vertical reach of the deep plume covers an area of unknown size and the depth of the contamination is unknown.
7 Mar 20244min
Historic Inter-American Hearing on Impacts to Indigenous Peoples’ Human Rights from Uranium Exploitation
Members of Indigenous communities provided testimony to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights at a historic hearing in Washington, DC this week about the impacts of uranium exploitation on their human rights.
29 Feb 20244min
