radiation /tags/radiation radiation en-US Copyright Thu, 26 Sep 2024 04:44:45 GMT NM leaders and advocates demand reauthorization of radiation act in DC /local-news/2024-09-25/reauthorization-of-radiation-act New Mexico congressional leaders and advocates met with other federal lawmakers in Washington D.C. on Tuesday to urge reauthorizing the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA). Thu, 26 Sep 2024 04:44:45 GMT /local-news/2024-09-25/reauthorization-of-radiation-act Jeanette DeDios Indigenous advocates from NM to travel to DC, demand compensation for radiation exposure /local-news/2024-09-20/indigenous-advocates-reca-dc Local Indigenous communities that have been impacted by long-term uranium exposure will be traveling to Washington D.C. on Sunday to demand that Congress pass a bill that will compensate those exposed to radiation. Sat, 21 Sep 2024 00:27:32 GMT /local-news/2024-09-20/indigenous-advocates-reca-dc Jeanette DeDios Downwinder is cautiously optimistic that a defense bill amendment will bring radiation compensation /local-news/2023-08-02/downwinder-is-cautiously-optimistic-that-a-defense-bill-amendment-will-bring-radiation-compensation The Senate passed its version of the National Defense Authorization Act last week and for the first time, it also approved an amendment that expands the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. This could have a profound impact on people who lived near the site of the 1945 Trinity Test, the first atomic explosion, which took place in southern New Mexico. They have been excluded from compensation, as have uranium miners who did work after 1971. Tina Cordova, co-founder of the Tularosa Basin Downwinder Consortium, spoke with ¾ÅÉ«Íø the day after the Senate vote. Wed, 02 Aug 2023 23:47:50 GMT /local-news/2023-08-02/downwinder-is-cautiously-optimistic-that-a-defense-bill-amendment-will-bring-radiation-compensation Megan Kamerick Author looks at the impact of the nuclear industry on New Mexico /show/university-showcase/2023-07-20/author-looks-at-the-impact-of-the-nuclear-industry-on-new-mexico On this episode we talk with Lucie Genay, author of “Land of Nuclear Enchantment: A New Mexican History of the Nuclear Weapons Industry.†Fri, 21 Jul 2023 03:07:19 GMT /show/university-showcase/2023-07-20/author-looks-at-the-impact-of-the-nuclear-industry-on-new-mexico Megan Kamerick NMED Secretary: We Are Confident WIPP Is Ready To Go /local-news/2017-01-06/nmed-secretary-we-are-confident-wipp-is-ready-to-go The nation’s only underground nuclear waste dump is back in operation again. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad stored low level nuclear waste… Fri, 06 Jan 2017 18:06:57 GMT /local-news/2017-01-06/nmed-secretary-we-are-confident-wipp-is-ready-to-go Elaine Baumgartel Feds Could Ship High-Grade Plutonium To WIPP /public-health-new-mexico/2016-04-01/feds-could-ship-high-grade-plutonium-to-wipp The U.S. Department of Energy is hoping to send tons of weapons-grade plutonium waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, near Carlsbad.The DOE… Sat, 02 Apr 2016 00:42:57 GMT /public-health-new-mexico/2016-04-01/feds-could-ship-high-grade-plutonium-to-wipp Ed Williams WIPP Incidents Result In $54M Proposed Fines /local-news/2014-12-09/wipp-incidents-result-in-54m-proposed-fines ¾ÅÉ«Íø Call In Show 12/11 8a: The New Mexico Environment Department has fined the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and Los Alamos National Laboratory a total of… Tue, 09 Dec 2014 15:16:50 GMT /local-news/2014-12-09/wipp-incidents-result-in-54m-proposed-fines Environment Department Fines WIPP, LANL $54M /local-news/2014-12-06/environment-department-fines-wipp-lanl-54m New Mexico is fining the U.S. Department of Energy $54 million for incidents at the nation’s only underground nuclear waste storage facility.The Waste… Sat, 06 Dec 2014 23:01:10 GMT /local-news/2014-12-06/environment-department-fines-wipp-lanl-54m Elaine Baumgartel Management, Safety Cited For Radiation Release At WIPP /public-health-new-mexico/2014-04-25/management-safety-cited-for-radiation-release-at-wipp Department of Energy investigators say a radiation release from the federal government's underground nuclear waste dump in southeastern New Mexico was the… Fri, 25 Apr 2014 12:18:26 GMT /public-health-new-mexico/2014-04-25/management-safety-cited-for-radiation-release-at-wipp Jeri Clausing NCI to Study Effects of Trinity Test /public-health-new-mexico/2014-03-25/nci-to-study-effects-of-trinity-test The National Cancer Institute will come to New Mexico this spring to investigate how much radiation people were exposed to after the Trinity test in the… Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:16:12 GMT /public-health-new-mexico/2014-03-25/nci-to-study-effects-of-trinity-test Marisa Demarco