Elected Officials Question DOE Plans to Keep WIPP Operating Forever
Did you know that the current hazardous waste permit for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) states that waste disposal operations will end in 2024, followed by a ten-year period to close the under...
11 Aug 20224min
CCNS and HOPE Petition to Remand Permit for LANL’s Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment Facility
On Tuesday, August 9 th the New Mexico Water Quality Control Commission will hear virtually a petition for review of the groundwater discharge permit, DP-1132, filed by non-governmental organizations ...
3 Aug 20224min
August 6 th and 9 th Events to Commemorate the U.S. Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945
August 6 th and 9 th were the days in 1945 when the U.S. bombed the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs 77 years ago. Every year community members gather at to commemorate thos...
28 Jul 20224min
WIPP Hazardous Waste Permit Renewal Coming Soon
Did you know the hazardous waste permit for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is up for its ten-year renewal? In August, the New Mexico Environment Department may release a draft permit for publi...
21 Jul 20224min
Support Representative Garamendi’s NDAA Amendment for Plutonium Pit Accountability
In the face of continuing problems and escalating costs for expanded production of plutonium “pit” bomb cores for nuclear weapons, U.S. Congressman John Garamendi, of California, has offered a common ...
13 Jul 20224min
Holtec Buys Shutdown Nuclear Power Plants to Create New Spent Fuel Supply Chain for Proposed New Mexico Facility
Holtec International recently purchased two shutdown nuclear power plants in Michigan to create a supply chain of spent fuel rods for its proposed consolidated interim storage facility in southeastern...
7 Jul 20224min
WIPP to Stay Open Forever? Speak Up at the July 7 th WIPP Community Forum
Did you know that the Department of Energy (DOE) plans to continue disposing of plutonium-contaminated radioactive and hazardous waste in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) essentially forever? In...
30 Jun 20224min
Ralph Hutchinson on U.S. Absence from First Meeting of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
This week before the start of the First Meeting of States Parties for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Vienna, three countries deposited their ratification documents with the United...
23 Jun 20224min
