779 Views   SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – New Mexico has hundreds of old uranium mine sites around the state, and the federal government has been working to understand the scope of contamination at some mine sites. Now New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham said more needs to be done.
790 Views   ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Federal officials gathered Tuesday March 26th in southern New Mexico to mark the 25th anniversary of the nation’s only underground repository for radioactive waste resulting from decades of nuclear research and bomb making.
800 Views   ALAMOGORDO, N.M. (KRQE) – There are unexpectedly high levels of chemical contamination in wild birds and mammals at Holloman Air Force Base, near Alamogordo, according to a new study done by a team of researchers from the University of New Mexico’s Museum of Southwestern Biology.
976 Views   ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Albuquerque and Bernalillo County Fire Rescue crews gained control of a large fire at a manufacturing facility in Mesa Del Sol. The fire started around 2:38 p.m. Sunday near the Atkore facility. Crews responded to a reported vehicle fire near the facility with reported on-site
973 Views   The Senate approved new amendments to the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. Now it’s being reviewed by the House. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Last week the Senate approved adding amendments to the original bill to include New Mexico in the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, but there’s still one more obstacle
993 Views   On Thursday evening the U.S. Senate passed an amendment to the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act to expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, also known as RECA. The amendment would bring eligibility for compensation to New Mexico downwinders and post-1971 uranium miners.
1,126 Views   BERNALILLO COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) — Bernalillo County has launched an ad to cut down on illegal dumping. This one focuses on tires. This PSA depicts a man tossing tires out on the mesa and driving off, but one tire won’t stay there, rolling through town before it ends
918 Views   ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The price tag for cleaning up waste from the once top-secret Manhattan Project and subsequent Cold War-era nuclear research at Los Alamos National Laboratory has more than doubled in the last seven years, and independent federal investigators say federal officials will have to do
982 Views   ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico says it has reached a settlement with the U.S. Department of Energy over the renewal of a permit for the federal government’s only underground repository for nuclear waste. Officials with the New Mexico Environment Department announced Tuesday that an agreement was reached
1,024 Views   CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy says it’s making progress on a new ventilation shaft at the nation’s only underground nuclear repository that will allow the facility to ramp up operations as it disposes of tons of waste from decades of research and bomb making.
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