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Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety
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This month, the International Uranium Film Festival in Berlin honored uranium weapons expert and activist Damacio A. Lopez with the festival’s Honorary Lifetime Achievement Award. For over thirty years, the US Air Force veteran from Socorro, New Mexico has campaigned for an international ban on depleted uranium munitions and weapons. https://uraniumfilmfestival.org/ His community in central New Mexico […]
In an essay for NYU’s Democracy Project, David F. Levi, a former federal judge and director emeritus of the Bolch Judicial Institute at Duke Law, reflected on the negotiations he facilitated in New Mexico about the renewal of the hazardous waste permit for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), a deep geologic repository for plutonium-contaminated […]
On September 26th, 2025, during the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, the Republic of Ghana ratified the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), and the Country of Kyrgyzstan signed on. With these actions, a global majority of countries have signed onto the United Nations nuclear weapons ban treaty. A total […]
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board is a small, independent federal agency that serves as a watchdog for the Department of Energy’s nuclear weapons complex. It is supposed to have five members, but it currently has only two. And one member’s term expires on October 18th. If one or more board positions aren’t filled on […]
The independent Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board has been dwindling from a five-member board to one member and may disappear if we, the People, do not raise our voices to support its essential nuclear safety work. The Safety Board needs at least two new members. And that needs to get done by Saturday, October 18th. […]
Following the 80th year since the bombings of Trinity, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, did you know that 2025 is also the 80th year since the formation of the United Nations? The General Assembly’s first resolution recognized nuclear disarmament as the principal goal of the United Nations. On Friday, September 26th, take time to acknowledge the world […]
On Saturday, August 30th, after a beautiful drive across the plains of Northeastern New Mexico, members of the Stop Forever WIPP Coalition arrived in the Village of Wagon Mound. https://www.wagonmound.org/ With a population of less than 300, this rural community feels tight-knit, with many friends and families gathering to celebrate the mighty Pinto Bean every […]
Given the recent data dumps by Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) about its proposed venting of large quantities of radioactive tritium from four Flanged Tritium Waste Containers, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) must reject LANL’s August 22nd regulatory request for temporary authorization to vent. This Update describes some of the obstacles LANL put in […]
This week’s so-called public meeting about the proposed venting of radioactive tritium into the air from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) showed once again how LANL silences communities while fast-tracking nuclear weapons projects. In-person attendees were allowed three minutes to speak. Over 100 online participants—including many land-based community members who were not able to travel […]
Over 24,000 people provided public comments to the Department of Energy (DOE) and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) in opposition to the proposed Electrical Power Capacity Upgrade (EPCU) Project during a convoluted multi-federal agency and multi-year review process to expand electric power to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Nevertheless, on Wednesday, DOE and NNSA issued […]
Dr. Ghasson Shahrour, a medical expert and a Campaigner with the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, wrote the following piece. “Every August 6, the world is asked to pause—for memory, for reflection, for conscience. We remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki: two cities reduced to ash in seconds. Tens of thousands lost. Generations marked by invisible […]
To prepare for a public meeting with the U.S. Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (“the Board”) in Santa Fe on Monday evening, CCNS followed its policy of reviewing at least the last eight weeks of the Board’s reports for Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and used that as a basis for questions and comments to […]
All are welcome to join peacemakers and activists on Saturday, August 9th at 10 am in Los Alamos to commemorate the 80th year since the U.S. bombing of Nagasaki, Japan on that day in 1945. At 10 am, a vigil and protest will begin in the Manhattan Project National Historic Park at Ashley Pond. We’ll […]
The Red Water Pond Road Community Association and the Pipeline Road Community invite you to attend the historic 46th commemoration of the Church Rock Uranium Tailings Spill on Saturday, July 19th beginning at 6 am near the tailings spill location, 12 miles north of Red Rock State Park on State Highway 566. Free t-shirts will […]
As you may know, the recent federal reconciliation bill increased the budget for expanded plutonium pit production at the Savannah River Site, located in South Carolina, by one billion dollars. Yes, one billion dollars in one year! A “pit” is the plutonium core of a nuclear weapon. The Department of Energy (DOE) plans to fabricate […]
In anticipation of the 80th anniversaries of the 1945 atomic bombings in the USA and Japan, a number of hybrid educational events will be held next week. On Thursday, July 10th from 10:30 am to 3:30 pm Mountain Time, the Arms Control Association and Win Without War will host a hybrid event, “From Trinity to […]
In this week’s Update CCNS provides information about the upcoming commemorations of two harmful atomic events that both occurred in New Mexico on July 16th. The first is the 80th commemoration of the plutonium bomb test at the Trinity Test Site on July 16, 1945 at the White Sands Missile Range. The Tularosa Basin Downwinders […]
This week, a coalition of 13 attorneys general issued Multistate Guidance affirming the necessity and legality of environmental justice initiatives to ensure a healthy environment for all people to live, play, learn, work and worship. Despite attempts by the Trump administration to eliminate this critical work by businesses, nonprofits, and other organizations as illegal through […]
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) planned to vent 30,000 curies of radioactive tritium into the air during several weekends this summer but it must have approval from the New Mexico Environment Department. James Kenney, Environment Department Secretary, citing significant public interest in the proposed plan, determined that prior to the Environment Department making any final […]
It has been raining in Northern New Mexico this week, providing many blessings of moisture and delaying the proposed venting of radioactive tritium from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), at least for now. Importantly, the New Mexico Environment Department continues its review of LANL’s application for “temporary authorization” to vent up to 30,000 curies of […]
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