CCNS Update

Last week residents of Ypsilanti Township expressed their anger over a proposed high-performance computing facility near the Huron River in a partnership between the University of Michigan and Los Alamos National...

From 1946 to 1969, the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard was used as the station for top-secret nuclear tests in the Pacific Ocean. It was also the place where decontamination was done on the ships used in hydrogen bomb...

Why does it matter whether plutonium pits are “aging” before their time? We all age. We get old and we die. But that’s not what the Department of Energy (DOE) and National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) want for...

After working for nearly five years, Los Alamos County and the Department of Energy updated their original 1985 Electric Coordination Agreement (ECA) for the interconnected electric system that has powered homes...

Once again, the Department of Energy and its semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration has denied the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board access to nuclear weapons facilities, including at Los Alamos...

In compliance with the Trump administration Executive Orders 14300 and 14154, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is proposing to scrap long-standing radiation exposure standards for the general public and...

Did you know that the nuclear bomb the United States of America dropped on Nagasaki, Japan on August 9th, 1945 was fabricated at Los Alamos National Laboratory? Or that the radioactive waste from that fabrication...

Roger Kent Snodgrass passed peacefully in his sleep very early on Saturday, July 18th with his partner, Myra, at his side. Roger was a great friend and colleague of CCNS. We met Roger when he was a reporter, then...

On Sunday, July 19th, the Secretary of the New Mexico Environment Department, James C. Kenney, was the keynote speaker at the 81st Anniversary of the Trinity Atomic Bomb Test in central New Mexico. The event took place...

There are two opportunities to commemorate historic events in New Mexico this weekend. On Saturday, July 18 th , the Commemoration of the Church Rock Uranium Mill Tailings Spill begins at 6 am, and on Sunday, July 19 th...

On Monday, July 6 th , a South Carolina Environmental Law Project lawyer made a needed request for three Department of Energy and National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) documents that should have been...

Mark your calendar for some important upcoming events: the PEIS comments are due on Thursday, July 16 th , then on Saturday, July 18 th , the Commemoration of the Church Rock Uranium Mill Tailings Spill, and on Sunday...

By June 22 nd , hundreds of New Mexicans submitted comments in support of the New Mexico Environment Department’s strong stand to protect the People of New Mexico by requiring Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to...

The New Mexico Environment Department has taken a strong stand to protect the People of New Mexico by requiring Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to remove plutonium-contaminated waste “Off the Hill.” On April 23rd...

<p>On Monday, May 8th, 2026, at a press conference in front of La Cieneguilla</p><p>Petroglyphs, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich, Ranking Member of the U.S. Senate Energy</p><p>and Natural Resources Committee and...