$80K donated by NWP, Amentum to Carlsbad organizations
Nuclear Waste Partnership (NWP) and its parent company Amentum announced $80,000 in donations to schools and community organizations in Carlsbad and Hobbs.
On May 12, Carlsbad MainStreet, Keep Carlsbad Beautiful and Creative Carlsbad accepted a donation of $20,000 to Carlsbad MainStreet. The funds are designated to help refurbish and beautify the downtown area around the Eddy County Courthouse through the addition of new benches and trashcans.
“Carlsbad MainStreet, Pearl of the Pecos, and Keep Carlsbad Beautiful strive to improve our community and districts in every way possible. This downtown rejuvenation project is the perfect example of that. Through collaboration between all of our organizations and the generous support of the Nuclear Waste Partnership and Amentum, we will have the opportunity to start the first phase of our beautification project,” said Ashley Key, Carlsbad MainStreet’s director.
Oil and gas interests in the Permian Basin have aligned with environmentalists to oppose Holtec s plan
Holtec says the project will provide hundreds of good paying jobs in New Mexico
Communities across the nation that are stuck with spent nuclear fuel are anxious to send the waste out west so they can begin redeveloping sites that housed nuclear power plants.
It’s easy to tell when boom time has arrived on the wind-swept streets of Carlsbad, New Mexico, 2,000 miles away from the shores of the Hudson River and its iconic nuclear towers of Indian Point.
When the western state s Permian Basin is humming, churning out barrel upon barrel of crude to fuel the nation’s cars and trucks, the RV parks teem with workers looking to cash in on work in the oilfields that dot the city.
New deadline would delay sending plutonium-contaminated waste off Hanford for 20 years By Annette Cary, Tri-City Herald
Published: May 13, 2021, 7:47am
Share: In this photo taken July 11, 2016, a sign warns of radioactive material stored underground on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation near Richland, Wash. The U.S. Energy Department EYs top official at Washington state EYs severely contaminated nuclear reservation says future accidental nuclear radiation releases are likely because of aging site infrastructure and inadequate cleanup funding. Hundreds were evacuated May 9, 2017 when the roof of a 1950s rail tunnel storing a lethal mix of waste from plutonium production collapsed. Tests show no radiation was released. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
COVID-19 continued its presence at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant last month and in early May but infections appeared to be slowing with less than five reported weekly since the start of April.
Six cases of COVID-19 were reported at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant throughout the entire month of April, with two reported so far in May, records show.
The latest report from Nuclear Waste Partnership (NWP) – the primary operations contractor at WIPP – showed two cases between May 6 and 13, bringing the nuclear waste repository’s total caseload to 275 infections since the pandemic first struck New Mexico in March 2020.
Another infection was reported on April 30.