Links to media coverage of oppositon to Holtec/ELEA CISF in Albuquerque, NM
Updated - Tuesday, January 22, 2019
- Albuquerque Journal - Hearings on nuclear waste facility to start today - By Maddy Hayden, Journal Staff Writer
- KOB - New nuclear waste storage facility may open in NM - Ryan Laughlin
Updated - Wednesday, January 23, 2019
Sputnik International "Loud & Clear" - Beyond Nuclear segment is here: https://www.spreaker.com/user/radiosputnik/beyond-nuclear-with-kevin-kamps_36
Albuquerque Journal - Transport key concern for many opposing Holtec facility - By Maddy Hayden, Journal Staff Writer
Santa Fe New Mexican - U.S. Panel Hears Arguments in Nuclear Waste Storage Case -
Judges Consider Challenges To New Nuclear Waste Site In N.M. - By Marisa Demarco
Carlsbad Current Argus - Hearing: Critics blast Holtec proposal to store nuclear waste near Carlsbad -
saveleacounty transmission 2019-01-26
Greetings from the Land of Enchantment!
The website at https://saveleacounty.net/ now includes videos of the NRC hearings. Because of bandwidth concerns, there is not a direct download link for the videos. Please utilize a third party service (Google: “Youtube convert mp4”) to download the videos to your device.
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Lea County, NM
Wed., Feb. 13, 2018
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New Mexico Radioactive Waste Showdown: Don Hancock on WIPP and Proposed “Interim” Storage – NH #396
This Week’s Featured Interview:
- New Mexico’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) radioactive waste problems examined in Libbe HaLevy’s interview with Don Hancock, Executive Director of the Southwest Research and Information Center, a nuclear watchdog group headquartered in Albuquerque. The group focuses on the goings-on at WIPP, this country’s only deep geological repository for low level nuclear waste. He gives us an update on conditions at WIPP since its 2014 accidents closed it down, along with the intense political wrangling going on right now about changing regulations to allow WIPP to take high level waste it’s not designed to handle. We also go into the battle raging right now over the threat of the world’s largest radioactive waste dump being situated in New Mexico and/or New Mexico-adjacent in West Texas.
Listen to the Nuclear Hotseat interview, here.
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New Mexico Nuclear Waste Showdown at NOT OK Corral: Beyond Nuclear’s Kevin Kamps – NH #397
New Mexico nuclear waste dump? A mock radioactive waste canister representing the 100,000 metric tons of spent nuclear fuel rods Holtec wants New Mexico to store until a permanent high level radioactive waste facility is built.
This Week’s Featured Interview:
- New Mexico nuclear waste dump, its illegality, dangers and opposition from the local community as well as national groups is explored with Kevin Kamps, Nuclear Waste Specialist for Beyond Nuclear. Kevin was in Albuquerque for last week’s Nuclear Regulatory Commission hearings to decide what, if any, objections can even be allowed to be considered in siting the Consolidated (so-called) “Interim” Waste Facility– aka high level radioactive waste dump. Kevin has also been working overtime for months in the preparation for these hearings. We spoke on January 25, the day after the NRC hearings ended.
Listen to the Nuclear Hotseat show, here.