NM officials trying to race COVID-19 infections near LANL

As reported by the Santa Fe New Mexican:

[NM Governor Michelle] Lujan Grisham also told Trump on the call New Mexico is seeing "incredible spikes" in COVID-19 cases in the Navajo Nation and said state officials are trying to trace infections near Los Alamos National Laboratory, CBS News reported.

"If we don't get that under containment and really be clear about surveillance, I think we have some significant national security issues," Lujan Grisham said, according to CBS.

Most Hanford workers to stay home over coronavirus concerns. No word on for how long.

As reported by the Tri-City Herald.

The Hanford Nuclear Reservation is a major U.S. Department of Energy nuclear weapons complex site. It is perhaps the most radioactively contaminated site, by certain measures, in the entire Western Hemisphere.

Political Battle Brewing Over New Nuclear Program

As reported by National Defense Industries Association Magazine.

Nuclear Tests Marked Life on Earth With a Radioactive Spike

Even as it disappears, the “bomb spike” is revealing the ways humans have reshaped the planet.

As reported by The Atlantic.

Environmental Coalition Objections to Resumption of Military Depleted Uranium Production at Piketon, Ohio

See the letter, signed by 38 organizations. The letter was submitted by attorney Terry Lodge of Toledo, Ohio, to the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).

The letter begins:

Veterans For Peace, Beyond Nuclear, Sierra Club Nuclear Free Committee, Nuclear Information Resource Service, Sierra Club Nuclear Free Campaign, Alaska's Big Village Network, ANSWER Coalition, Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination, Citizens’ Environmental Coalition, Citizens' Resistance at Fermi 2, Coalition for a Nuclear Free Great Lakes, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, Council on Intelligent Energy & Conservation Policy, Don't Waste Michigan, Ecological Options Network, Erwin Citizens Awareness Network, Inc., Friends of Bruce, Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, Inc., Indian Point Safe Energy Coalition, Full Circle EcoHouse of Prayer, Great Lakes Environmental Alliance, Lone Tree Council, Mid-Missouri Peaceworks, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, Nuclear Energy Information Service, Nuclear Issues Study Group, The Nuclear Resister, Nuclear Watch South, Nukewatch, Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, Physicians for Social Responsibility- Los Angeles, Portsmouth-Piketon Residents for Environmental Safety and Security/National Nuclear Workers for Justice, San Clemente Green, Stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion, Sustainable Energy and Economic Development Coalition, Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, and Uranium Watch hereby demand that the U.S. Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration (“DOE/NNSA”) immediately suspend plans to produce depleted uranium (“DU”) as a commodity for use in machine gun ammunition, tank artillery shells, bunker-buster bomb components and armor for military vehicles, and further, that DOE/NNSA formally supplement the “Final Environmental Impact Statement for Construction and Operation of a Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride Conversion Facility at the Portsmouth, Ohio, Site” (“FEIS”) (DOE/EIS–0360) and consider permanent abandonment of all military applications of DU.