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A Weekly overview of Nuclear Safety issues. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ccnsupdate/support
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Los Alamos Power Pool Planning for Two New Electrical Lines
It was announced at the June 5 th Los Alamos County Board of Public Utilities
meeting that there are two proposals to bring approximately 50 or more megawatts of
solar electricity to the County and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), a federal
Department of Energy (DOE) facility. One of the County’s goals is to develop and
strengthen partnerships with Jemez Pueblo and Pueblo de San Ildefonso in their efforts
to develop solar farms.
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Searchlight Journalist Receives 2024 MOLLY Award for Story on Trucheña Whose Plutonium Count Was New Mexico’s Highest
The Austin newspaper, the Texas Observer, chose Searchlight reporter
Alicia Inez Guzmán, to receive its 2024 MOLLY Prize on May 30 th . Guzmán
holds a Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester
in New York. Her article, “Buried Secrets, Poisoned Bodies,” is exemplary
investigative journalism. The prize, awarded to only one journalist a year,
honors Molly Ivins, the Observer editor for six years in the 70’s.
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DNFSB Still Concerned about Flaws in Emergency Air Monitoring at WIPP
Just as there were problems encountered with air monitoring during the February
14, 2014 explosion and release at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a nuclear
bomb waste dump, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board continues to raise
questions about that issue.
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DOE Seeks EPA Permission to Operate Panels 11 and 12 in the WIPP Underground
On March 12 th , the Department of Energy (DOE) submitted its Planned Change
Request to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to use new Panels 11 and 12 in
the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) underground nuclear waste facility. The Planned
Change Request also outlines the plans for seven additional panels for waste from
expanded plutonium pit production at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the
Savannah River Site in South Carolina and the disposition of 34 metric tons of surplus
plutonium from that site.
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Defend New Mexico Water from Fracking Waste Contamination by Proposed Wastewater Reuse Rule
Beginning on Monday, May 13 th , at an in-person and virtual public hearing in
Santa Fe, the New Mexico Environment Department will present its proposal to vastly
expand the reuse of produced water from the production of oil and gas to the New
Mexico Water Quality Control Commission.
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Public Comments Needed to Ban Open Burning and Open Detonation of PFAS, Toxic and Carcinogenic Explosive Materials
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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