Rain or shine, please join diverse organizations and individuals at the

Inaugural Albu(r)querque Peace Festival on Saturday, August 5 th from 2 to

6 pm at Roosevelt Park for music, speakers, informational tables and food

trucks.. The Albu(r)querque Peace Festival is an effort by multiple

organizations to bring attention to the danger of nuclear weapons, the

horror of nuclear war, and promote efforts toward longstanding peace

locally, nationally, and globally.

You are invited to come to a free in-person and live stream public vigil entitled “From Reflection to Action: An Interfaith Remembrance of the Trinity Test” on Sunday, July 16 th from 4 to 6 pm at Santa Maria de la Paz Church at 11 College Avenue in Santa Fe. The vigil will commemorate the 78 th year since the detonation of the first atomic weapon, called The Gadget, at the Trinity Test Site in south central New Mexico and provide you with tools to work for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons. Doors open at 3:15 pm so you may view exhibits and visit with representatives of local organizations, including CCNS.

To commemorate the 78 th anniversary of the first detonation of an atomic weapon

at the nearby Trinity Test Site, the complete elimination of nuclear weapons must be

prioritized. A free in-person and livestreamed public event entitled “From Reflection to

Action: An Interfaith Remembrance of the Trinity Test” will be held at the Santa Maria de

la Paz Community Hall in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Sunday, July 16 th from 4 to 6 pm.

Doors open at 3:15 pm so you may view exhibits on nuclear issues and visit with

representatives of local organizations.

CCNS and five other non-governmental organizations and one individual

successfully negotiated a settlement agreement last week to revise the draft ten-year

hazardous waste renewal permit for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). Also at the

table were the New Mexico Environment Department and the co-Permittees, the U.S.

Department of Energy (DOE) and Salado Isolation Mining Contractors, LLC (SIMCO).

Each week you depend on CCNS to provide you with the latest nuclear safety

issues through the radio, on the internet and by email. We’ve been producing the

weekly CCNS News Update for over 35 years! We need your financial support to keep

our programs going.

Los Alamos National Laboratory plans to prepare an environmental assessment

to address the hexavalent chromium contamination in the deep regional drinking water

aquifer. In comments submitted this week, the Communities for Clean Water

recommended that LANL conduct a more detailed environmental impact statement in

order to protect the regional drinking water aquifer and the Environmental Protection

Agency-designated Española Basin Sole Source Aquifer from the migrating

contamination.

You are invited to join the Ohio Nuclear Free Network for its important virtual public forum, Radioactive Contamination, Environment and Public Health and the

Future of the Portsmouth Nuclear Site, on Saturday, June 10 th beginning at 10:45 am Mountain Time. The in-person and virtual forum offers an opportunity to

learn from world-renowned experts about contamination at the Piketon, Ohio site and at

Department of Energy (DOE) sites across the country.

CCNS has prepared sample public comments you can modify about the scope of a new draft site-wide environmental impact statement for Sandia National

Laboratories in New Mexico. Comments may be submitted electronically to SNL-

[email protected] through Monday, June 5 th , 2023.

In response to the lack of concrete progress on nuclear disarmament by the G7

leaders in Hiroshima last week, Ivana Nikolić Hughes, Ph.D., and President of the

Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, wrote the following op-ed in Common Dreams. We

provide excerpts:

On May 15 th , four Archbishops, including Archbishop John C. Wester of the Archdiocese of Santa Fe, sent a letter to the Group of Seven leaders gathering for

a three-day summit in Hiroshima, Japan to urge the leaders to take concrete steps toward nuclear disarmament.