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BY MAIRE O'NEILLmaire@losalamosreporter.com The New Mexico Environment Department’s Groundwater Quality Bureau has issued a list of revised acceptable corrective actions to the Department of Energy for treatment of the chromium plume below Los Alamos National Laboratory that includes resuming re-injection of treated water for a period of 12 months. The new corrective action plan, called…

A panel that discussed the cleanup of the LANL Chromium Plume with the Legislative Committee on Radioactive & Hazardous Materials consisted of, from left, Joni Arends, co-founder and executive director of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear, Rick Shean, director of the Environment Department's Resource Protection Division, Michael Mikolanis, manager of the DOE's Environmental Management Los Alamos…

New Mexico has no time for standing still when it comes to cleaning up a decades-old toxic chromium plume under Los Alamos National Laboratory.

State regulators in March ordered the U.S. Energy Department to stop extracting tainted water, treating it and injecting it back into the plume over fears the contaminants were moving closer

A decades-old U.S. Air Force jet fuel spill into Albuquerque’s groundwater is garnering renewed attention from officials as concerns rise over a lagging clean-up effort.

NMED NEWS RELEASE The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Los Alamos field office (EM-LA) will host a public meeting on March 29, 2023 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. in accordance with Section VIII.C.3.d of the 2016 Order on Consent (CO). NMED will host the meeting and…

So far this year, three shipments of transuranic (TRU) nuclear waste from Idaho alerted WIPP personnel, leading to suspensions of waste shipments.