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A Weekly overview of Nuclear Safety issues.

  1. -16 h

    PEIS Lawyer Requests Three Essential Documents and an Extension of Time for Public Review and Comment

    On Monday, July 6 th , a South Carolina Environmental Law Project lawyer made a needed request for three Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) documents that should have been available at the start of the current public comment period for the draft Plutonium Pit Production Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS). Public comments about the draft PEIS are due to DOE/NNSA on or before Thursday, July 16 th .

    5 min

  2. 2 juil.

    Submit Your PEIS Comments and Commemorate the Church Rock Uranium Mill Tailings Spill and the Trinity Test

    Mark your calendar for some important upcoming events: the PEIS comments are due on Thursday, July 16 th , then on Saturday, July 18 th , the Commemoration of the Church Rock Uranium Mill Tailings Spill, and on Sunday, July 19 th , the Commemoration of the Trinity Test. Details for each of these follows.

    4 min

  3. 25 juin

    DOE Strongly Opposes NMED’s Proposal to Get Waste Off the Hill in Los Alamos: What Now?

    By June 22 nd , hundreds of New Mexicans submitted comments in support of the New Mexico Environment Department’s strong stand to protect the People of New Mexico by requiring Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to remove plutonium- contaminated waste “Off the Hill.”

    4 min

  4. 18 juin

    Support New Mexico Environment Department’s Proposal to Get Waste Off the Hill in Los Alamos; Your Comments due on Monday, June 22nd

    The New Mexico Environment Department has taken a strong stand to protect the People of New Mexico by requiring Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to remove plutonium-contaminated waste “Off the Hill.” On April 23rd, the Environment Department released an essential modification to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) Permit requring the cleanup of legacy waste stored at LANL in fabric tents on top of the mesa near the community of White Rock. The proposed modification also requires the disposal of legacy waste at WIPP, a nuclear bomb dump located east of Carlsbad, New Mexico.

    4 min

  5. 11 juin

    New Mexico Tribal, Federal and Local Leaders Support Bill to Protect Caja del Rio Plateau

    On Monday, May 8th, 2026, at a press conference in front of La Cieneguilla Petroglyphs, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and co-founder of the U.S. Senate Stewardship Caucus, and U.S. Representative Teresa Leger Fernández, Ranking Member of the U.S. House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs, unveiled their Caja del Rio Protection Act legislation to permanently protect the Caja del Rio Plateau.

    4 min

  6. 4 juin

    “St. Petersburg vs. the Golden Dome: A 150-year-old warning we are ignoring”

    Dr. Ghassan Shahrour, a medical doctor and human rights advocate, considers the need to choose limits over expansion of new weapons systems and provides historical examples.

    5 min

  7. 28 mai

    Take Action TODAY to Support LANL Cleanup; Submit Your Comments by Monday, June 8th

    On April 23rd, the New Mexico Environment Department issued an important permit modification to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in order to speed up cleanup of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and focus on the disposal of legacy waste at WIPP. The draft Hazardous Waste Act permit modification proposes to require a minimum percentage of legacy waste shipments from LANL to WIPP during specific timeframes beginning soon on January 1, 2027.

    4 min

  8. 21 mai

    Newly Released Tritium Review Analyzes LANL Tritium Reports, Highlights Infant Doses

    A newly released independent review of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s 2025 tritium venting raises serious concerns about radiation risks to children and infants and highlights major gaps in LANL’s public reporting and decision-making process.  The review also questions LANL’s decision to proceed with venting despite no measurable pressure buildup in the waste containers — meaning the explosion risk used to justify the releases may not have existed.

    4 min
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