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...
7 Mars 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 the...
29 Feb 20244min
Los Alamos County Moving Forward with Solar Power in an Amount LANL Says It Needs by 2027
This week, at the same time as the National Nuclear Security Administrative was requesting public comments about its need for 173 megawatts (MW) of electricity, the County of Los Alamos Board of Publi...
22 Feb 20244min
Public Comments on LANL Proposed Electrical Line Due on Tuesday, February 20 th
CCNS has prepared talking points and a sample public comment letter you can use to craft your oral and written comments about the proposed 14-mile long, 115-kilovolt electrical line across the Caja de...
16 Feb 20244min
Important Public Meetings Next Week and Public Comment Deadlines
Please mark your calendar to attend one or more of these meetings or submit public comments before the deadlines. Links and more information are available under Did You Know? at nuclearactive.org
8 Feb 20244min
February 15 th Public Meeting about the Proposed LANL Electrical Line Across the Caja del Rio
As promised, a second public meeting on the proposed Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) upgrade project to expand electrical power capacity will begin at 4 pm on Thursday, February 15 th at the San...
1 Feb 20244min
February 12 th Public Comments due on “Final” LANL Hexavalent Chromium Plume Remedy
Twenty years ago, the hexavalent chromium plume was discovered in the regional aquifer 1,000 feet below ground surface at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Since then the debate about how to remo...
25 Jan 20243min
Bonuses Show LANL Legacy Waste is Not a WIPP Priority
In July 2022, the Department of Energy (DOE) awarded the Tularosa Basin Range Services, a Bechtel affiliate, a 10-year, $3 billion dollar management and operating contract for the Waste Isolation Pilo...
18 Jan 20244min
