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Did you know the federal Departments of Defense and Energy, NASA and the

private industry sector currently operate more than 60 open burn pits across the U.S.

and its territories – causing the uncontrolled release of PFAS and other toxic chemicals

to the environment?


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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


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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.


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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.


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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.


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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)?


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