CCNS Update

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.

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.

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)?

Thursday, March 28 th marks the 45 th anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear

power plant accident in Pennsylvania. A new documentary, “RADIOACTIVE: The

Women of Three Mile Island,” tells the harrowing story of the 1979 accident involving

the release of radioactive and toxic materials into the air, soils, water and into bodies

young and old.

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 horizontal and vertical reach of the deep plume

covers an area of unknown size and the depth of the contamination is unknown.

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 their human rights.

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 Public Utilities was considering a proposal for 170

megawatts from the proposed Foxtail Flats Solar and Battery Energy Storage System in

San Juan County, New Mexico.

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 del Rio before it would cross the Rio Grande to Los

Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).

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

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 Santa Fe Community College. The first virtual and in-person public meeting was held at the same location on January 11 th .