• DOUBLE STANDARD:LANL PROCEEDING WITH ACID CANYON PLUTONIUM SOIL CLEANUP AT LEVELS 10 TIMES HIGHER THAN OTHER LANL CLEANUPS

Emergency Preparedness

• Independant Oversight Inspection of Energency Management at LANL (February, 2007)

• Energy

  Energy

  • Press Release: Community Groups Urge Congress to Investigate and Stop the GNEP Siting Program (January, 30 2007)
  • Joint Letter to Congress Regarding GNEP Siting Program (January, 25 2006)
  • Joint Letter to Congress Regarding Reprocessing Irradiated Commercial Nuclear Fuel (January, 25 2006)
   

  Environmental Health

  • Cerro Grande Fire project page
     

  • Open Burning/ Open Detonation at LANL projects page
    
     

  • Rio Grande Watershed Initiative  project page
    

    
    Technical Reports:

    • Historic and Current Discharges from Los Alamos National Laboratory: Analysis and Recomendations .pdf (September, 2006)

    • New Mexico's Right to Know: The Potential for Groundwater Contaminants from Los Alamos National Laboratory to Reach the Rio Grande by George Rice August 19, 2004 (.pdf)

      • Fact Sheet: New Mexico's Right to Know: The Potential for Groundwater Contaminants from LANL to Reach the Rio Grande (.pdf)

    • Early Warning: A Radioactive Rio Grande
      by CCNS and The RadioActivist Campaign

      • Press Release: "Early Warning: A Radioactive Rio Grande
        Study confirms radioactive cesium-137 seeping from LANL into the Rio Grande. October 24, 2003

      • Press Relase: STUDY REFUTES LANL CLAIM: Radioactivity leaking into Rio Grande is above "background" October 27, 2003

    • 
      Video

      • Early Warning: A Radioactive Rio Grande

    • 
      News Articles

      • NAS Revisits Regional Water Issues August 15, 2006

      
      Comments on State and Federal Documents:

      Comments of CCNS and Amigos Bravos on the draft Federal Facilities Compliance Agreement Under the Clean Water Act at LANL.pdf (December 17, 2004)

      CCNS's Letter to EPA Regarding the Federal Facilities Compliance Agreement Under the Clean Water Act at LANL (September 23, 2004)

      
      Maps

      Map of the location of the CCNS Spring (.pdf)

      
      NMED Documents

      LANL Fined For Failure to Report Chromium VI Contamination Found in Groundwater

  • Site Wide Environmental Impact Statement for LANL  project page
    • Comments on the draft 2006 LANL SWEIS, CCNS and EVEMG, full September, 2006
    • Conversation Points for 2006 the draft LANL SWEIS

    • Pit production and the Modern Pit Facility

    • The BE SAFE Blueprint for Precautionary Action on Nuclear Weapons

    • CCNS Review of the June 1998 Draft LANL Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement
      
    • Federal Register Notice of Intent to Prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement to the Final Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for LANL

    • NNSA to Prepare Environmental Impact Statement for LANL

    • NNSA Holds Meeting on Scope of LANL Environmental Impact Statement

    • CCNS's Comments on the Scope of the Supplemental SWEIS (.pdf)

      Nuclear Watch of New Mexico's Comments on the Scope of the Supplemental SWEIS (.pdf)

    • Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment's Comments on the SWEIS for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (.pdf)

     

  • LANL Water Watch

  Sites

   
  • Los Alamos National Laboratory project page
    • CCNS's Appeal of Open Burning and Detonation of High Explosives and Depleted Uranium at LANL(.pdf) (April 28, 2005)

    • CCNS's Comments on LANL's Air Permit Application to NMED for the CMRR(.pdf)(June 10, 2005)

    • Comments on the DOE's Risk-Based End-States Vision Statement (.pdf) (February 27, 2004)

    • CCNS's comments to the MDA H Working Group (January 12, 2004)

    • CCNS's Comments on the Proposed Order on Consent

    • CCNS's comments on the Supplement Analysis Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement: Modification of Management Methods for Transuranic Waste Characterization at LANL (August 12, 2002)

    • New Mexico's Right to Know: The Impacts of LANL Operations on Public Health and the Environment

    • 1999 LANL SWEIS Review

    • Highlights

    • CCNS's comments on the scope of the draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Chemical and Metallurgical Replacement facility at LANL
      (August 30, 2002)

    • New Mexico Department of Health letter to LANL regarding release of questionable firewood from LANL property. (February 25, 2003)

    • Proposed office complex to increase traffic along NM 599 WIPP bypass route

    • Existing and Potential Energy Demands for LANL (.pdf)

     

  • National Enrichment Facility and Louisiana Energy Services project page
    • CCNS's Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed LES uranium enrichment facility(.pdf) (January 7, 2005)

      CCNS's Talking Points on the draft Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed LES uranium enrichment facility (October 14, 2004)(.pdf)

    • Transcript of March 4, 2004 NRC meeting in Eunice, NM (April 28, 2004)

    • CCNS's Comments to NRC on the scope of the Environmental Impact Statement for the National Enrichment Facility (.pdf) (March 4, 2004)

    • IEER's comments to NRC on proposed LES enrichment plant in Tennessee

    • The US Uranium Enrichment Establishment by Mary Byrd Davis

    • What's Ahead for the Nation's Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride? by Mary Byrd Davis

      News:

      • NRC Secrecy Could Be Nuke Plant's Undoing (January 11, 2005)
        
      • Proposed N.M. Nuke Plant Risks Kept Secret (January 9, 2005)
        
      • Governor, stand your ground on nuke waste demands (December 3, 2004)
        
      • Richardson withholds support for LES (December 1, 2004)
        
      • Richardson says uranium waste can't stay in N.M. (December 1, 2004)
        
      • Feds take N.M. out of facility decision (August 19, 2004)
        
      • Feds crazy to ignore Curry-Madrid challenge (July 21, 2004)
        
      • State told it canŐt raise issues about uranium plant (July 20, 2004)
        
      • Proposed Nuclear Plant Both Probable, Safe (July 2, 2004)
        
      • NRC Holds Conference to Discuss License for Uranium Enrichment Facility (June 23, 2004)
        
      • Unwelcome Welcome: A nuclear consortium has the NRC's green light, regardless of New Mexicans' objections (May 28, 2004)
        
      • NRC Questions New Evidence from State (May 26, 2004)
        
      • AG office wants in on NRC hearing (April 21, 2004)
        
        
      • Nuclear Plan Draws Protests (April 8, 2004)
        
      • N.M. Seeks Role in Uranium Plant Decision (March 23, 2004)
        
      • NRC Hears Comments on Environmental Impact Statement for Uranium Enrichment Facility (March 10, 2004)
        
      • NRC Gathers Public Input (March 5, 2004)
        
      • A Radioactive Project Hits a Snag with Bush Administration (March 1, 2004)
        
      • 'Islamic Bomb' Chief Linked to Eunice (February 29, 2004)
        
      • Nuclear Experts are Used to Disagreeing (February 29, 2004)
        
      • Waste a Hurdle for Uranium Factory (February 29, 2004)
        
      • Gov. 'Rethinking' Nuke Plant; Waste a Concern (February 19, 2004)
        
      • Roots of Pakistan Atomic Scandal Traced to Europe (February 19, 2004)
        
      • Governor Wavers on Uranium Plan (February 18, 2004)
        
      • Mixed Legacy for Ky. Uranium Town (October 25, 2002)
        
      • Uranium foes fear an unfair hearing (January 20, 2003)
        
      • Uranium Plant Vows to Find Plausible Strategy for Waste (January 19, 2003)
        
      • Ohio Says N.M. Can Keep Its Nuclear Waste (January 17, 2003)
        
      • Nuke Plant's Waste Plans Questioned (January 7, 2003)
        
      • "Rifle Shots" and Nuclear Proliferation (January 6, 2003)
        
      • County Approves LES Ordinances, Group Opens Hobbs Office to Large Turnout (December 17, 2003)
        
      • LES Press Release: LES Submits License Application to Nuclear Regulatory Commission (December 16, 2003)
        
      • Application Made for Uranium Site (December 16, 2003)
        
      • State Gets Tough on Proposed Plant (December 12, 2003)
        
      • Uranium-Plant Politics: Nuclear Pig in Poke? (December 11, 2003)
        
      • Issues With LES Parent Company Might Be Red Flags (December 9, 2003)
        
      • Waste Issue Dogs Uranium-Plant Bid (December 9, 2003)
        
      • LES reaffirm waste disposal promises (December 9, 2003)
        
      • Uranium Company Stands by Pledge (November 29, 2003)
        
      • Energy Bill Provision Requires DOE Ownership of Uranium Enrichment Waste (November 26, 2003)
        
      • Company Wants DOE to Accept Waste (November 21, 2003)
        
      • Senators From Both Parties Criticize Energy Legislation (November 20, 2003)
        
      • Wind Farm Changing Fortune of Colorado Town (November 16, 2003)
        
      • Lea County Residents Urge NRC to Expedite License for Uranium Enrichment Facility (November 5, 2003)
        
      • New Group Fights Nuke Factory Plan (November 4, 2003)
        
      • Application Made for Uranium Site (September 16, 2003)
        
      • New Mexico Congressmen Attend Groundbreaking of Uranium Enrichment Facility in Lea County(September 3, 2003)
        
      • Uranium Factory Proposed for N.M. (August 28, 2003)
        
      • Tiny N.M. Town Welcomes Possible Nuke Dump (JULY 6, 2003)
        
      • Senator Domenici Proposes Uranium Enrichment Facility in Southeastern New Mexico (March 5, 2003)
        
      • Nukes: To Pyongyang From Nashville? (January 21, 2003)
     

  • Sandia National Laboratory
    • CCNS Comments on the Sandia Chemicle Waste Landfill (August 20, 2007)
   

   

• Waste Isolation Pilot Plant project page
  

  • CCNS Rebuttal of New York Times WIPP Photo Essay

  • The 6/99 NM Department of Health Emergency Response surveys on department and worker preparedness to handle nuclear waste spills and human injuries along the New Mexico WIPP route.

   

  Waste

  • GNEP-Reprocessing of Nuclear Fuel
    
     

  • Nuclear Laundry project page
    
     

  • Technical Area 18 at LANL (TA-18) project page
    
     

  • Waste Isolaton Pilot Plant
    

     

  • Other Waste Documents
    • CCNS Comments to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's Draft Agenda for Public Health Activities for Fiscal Years 1999 and 2000 at U.S. Department of Energy Sites
      
    • CCNS Comments on the Proposed Beryllium Rule 10 CFR Part 850
      
     

   

  Weapons

  • Biosafety Level 3 Laboratory (BSL-3) project page
     

  • Chemistery and Metalergy Replacement Building (CMRR) project page
     

  • Modern Pit Facility (MPF) project page

    • Talking Points on the MPF (Nuclear Watch of New Mexico)

    • Bombing New Mexico: The Impacts of the MPF on waste generation at LANL
    • News

      Final Resolution Approved by the Santa Fe City Council Opposing the MPF (August 13, 2003)

      Transcript of public comments from July 1, 2003 meeting in Pojoaque (August 13, 2003)

      CCNS's comments on the Modern Pit Facility (August 5, 2003)

      City of Santa Fe Resolution to oppose the Modern Pit Facility (July 21, 2003)

      Editorial from Carlsbad Current-Argus: Governor Should Take a Stand (July 15, 2003)

      Local and National Officials Say, "No New Bomb Factory, No Where, No Way." (July 16, 2003)

      Potential Accidents at New Plutonium Bomb Factory Would Violate Radiation Protection Standards for the Public (July 16, 2003)

      Hundreds of Citizens Proclaim, "No New Bomb Factory, No Where, No Way." (July 2, 2003)

      Government Data Projects Worker Cancer Deaths at New Plutonium Bomb Factory (June 26, 2003)

      Representative Markey's letter to Secretary Abraham questioning the MPF (November 26, 2002)

      Activist Groups Present Comments on Modern Pit Facility (October 30, 2002)

      ANA Presents Comments on Proposed Modern Plutonium Pit Production Facility (October 16, 2002)

      Both WIPP and LANL Proposed Locations for Modern Plutonium Pit Production Facility (September 25, 2002)

     

  • Technical Area 18 at LANL(TA-18)
  • Other Weapons Issues

    • CCNS Position on the Dealerting of Nuclear Weapons
      
    • The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
      
    • These Figures Should Not be Recorded
      
      
    • CCNS Letter to the United Nations Security Council (February, 28 2006)
      
     

    Youth Outreach

    • Youth Involvement:Keeping Safe in the Atomic Age (December, 16 2005)