/tags/nuclear nuclear en-US Copyright Tue, 12 Mar 2024 19:30:11 GMT /local-news/2024-03-12/los-alamos-national-lab-says-it-cant-use-solar-for-its-increasing-energy-needs-others-disagree Los Alamos County has approved an agreement for a large, 170 MW solar power farm in the Four Corners Region that will double the amount of clean energy dumped into the Los Alamos Power Pool – an agreement that divides power between Los Alamos National Laboratory and the rest of the county. Tue, 12 Mar 2024 19:30:11 GMT /local-news/2024-03-12/los-alamos-national-lab-says-it-cant-use-solar-for-its-increasing-energy-needs-others-disagree Bryce Dix /local-news/2020-01-08/lets-talk-u-s-conflict-with-iran Let's Talk New Mexico 1/9 8a: Iran launched missiles against U.S. bases in Iraq on Tuesday, Jan. 7, after a U.S. airstrike days earlier killed top Iranian… Thu, 09 Jan 2020 02:06:22 GMT /local-news/2020-01-08/lets-talk-u-s-conflict-with-iran Hannah Colton /local-news/2019-11-07/doctor-discusses-research-showing-high-levels-of-uranium-in-navajo-women-and-babies As the U.S. prepared to detonate the first atomic bomb in New Mexico in the ’40s, the federal government sought uranium on Navajo land. Decades later,… Thu, 07 Nov 2019 23:18:49 GMT /local-news/2019-11-07/doctor-discusses-research-showing-high-levels-of-uranium-in-navajo-women-and-babies Marisa Demarco /local-news/2019-01-23/judges-consider-challenges-to-new-nuclear-waste-site-in-n-m A private company called Holtec wants to store nuclear waste from the country’s power plants in New Mexico. A panel of three judges from the Atomic Safety… Thu, 24 Jan 2019 00:20:14 GMT /local-news/2019-01-23/judges-consider-challenges-to-new-nuclear-waste-site-in-n-m Marisa Demarco /local-news/2019-01-18/former-wipp-project-leader-talks-permit-changes Congress decided in the ’90s how much nuclear waste could be deposited into the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southern New Mexico. WIPP is the only place… Fri, 18 Jan 2019 22:57:34 GMT /local-news/2019-01-18/former-wipp-project-leader-talks-permit-changes Marisa Demarco /local-news/2017-08-14/lanl-makes-mistakes-in-shipping-hazardous-materials Nuclear weapons contractors around the U.S. made mistakes when shipping explosives and toxic chemicals at least 25 times in the last five years, according… Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:52:00 GMT /local-news/2017-08-14/lanl-makes-mistakes-in-shipping-hazardous-materials Marisa Demarco /local-news/2015-04-16/kunm-continuing-coverage-pnms-power-plan Two coal-burning stacks at the San Juan Generating Station will be shuttered in 2017. To replace that coal-generated power, Public Service Company of New… Thu, 16 Apr 2015 20:16:45 GMT /local-news/2015-04-16/kunm-continuing-coverage-pnms-power-plan /local-news/2015-03-17/prc-to-take-more-comment-on-energy-plan The Public Regulation Commission held weeks of public hearings earlier this year on PNM’s plan to shut down two coal-fired units at the San Juan… Tue, 17 Mar 2015 23:18:33 GMT /local-news/2015-03-17/prc-to-take-more-comment-on-energy-plan /local-news/2015-01-30/pnms-energy-future-at-a-crossroads New Mexico’s largest utility company has a plan to use fossil fuels and nuclear power for the next 20 years. But opponents of the plan want to see the… Fri, 30 Jan 2015 22:54:52 GMT /local-news/2015-01-30/pnms-energy-future-at-a-crossroads /public-health-new-mexico/2014-07-30/the-trinity-test-legacy-and-the-birth-of-the-atomic-bomb 91°µÍø Call In Show Thur. 7/31 8 a.m.July marked the 69th anniversary of the world's first detonation of an atomic bomb, in New Mexico. And on Monday,… Wed, 30 Jul 2014 05:32:40 GMT /public-health-new-mexico/2014-07-30/the-trinity-test-legacy-and-the-birth-of-the-atomic-bomb Marisa Demarco