Residents Frusturated As Department Of Energy Keeps Silent About Nuclear Leak

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — It’s been three weeks since the radiation sensors were triggered and the exhaust dampers at the federal government’s only underground nuclear waste dump slammed shut, putting the repository’s massive salt caverns off-limits and the nation’s cleanup efforts on hold. The U.S. Department of Energy says low levels of radiation made it […]

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By Associated Press
Nuke Repository Radiation

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — It's been three weeks since the radiation sensors were triggered and the exhaust dampers at the federal government's only underground nuclear waste dump slammed shut, putting the repository's massive salt caverns off-limits and the nation's cleanup efforts on hold. The U.S. Department of Energy says low levels of radiation

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Nuclear Dump Leak Raises Questions About Cleanup

Back-to-back accidents and an above-ground radiation release have shuttered the federal government’s only deep underground nuclear waste dump indefinitely, raising questions about a cornerstone of the Department of Energy’s $5-billion-a-year program for cleaning up legacy waste scattered across the country from decades of nuclear bomb making.

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By Associated Press
Nuke Dump Radiation

CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — For 15 years the trucks have barreled past southeastern New Mexico's potash mines and seemingly endless fields of oil rigs, hauling decades worth of plutonium-contaminated waste to what is supposed to be a safe and final resting place a half mile underground in the salt beds of the Permian Basin. But back-to-back accidents

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Remember That Nuclear Dump Site That ‘Was Never Supposed To Leak’?

Nation’s only underground nuclear waste storage site, located in New Mexico, believed to be leaking radiation into air

Sarah Lazare
By Sarah Lazare

  A leak at the only underground nuclear waste dump in the United States is now believed to be releasing radiation into the air, the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced Monday, sparking alarm among residents near the southeastern New Mexico site. "There's been radioactivity from nuclear waste released on the surface into the

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Suspected Radiation Leak In Military’s Nuclear Dumping Ground

‘This is highly toxic poisoning that can be eliminated by stopping the desire to be a nuclear power over the world’

Sarah Lazare
By Sarah Lazare

A New Mexico deep-earth repository for the U.S. military's nuclear waste has likely sprung an underground radiation leak, sparking concern among Native American communities and other residents who "carry the burden" of this state's nuclear legacy. "Since the detonation and creation of first atomic bomb in New Mexico, we the people who live in

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Huge US Thermal Plant Opens As Industry Grows

“This project shows that building a clean-energy economy creates jobs, curbs greenhouse gas emissions and fosters American innovation.”

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By Associated Press
Jeff Holland takes a picture of some of the 300,000 computer-controlled mirrors that reflect sunlight to boilers that sit on 459-foot towers Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014 in Primm, Nev. The Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System, sprawling across roughly 5 square miles of federal land near the California-Nevada border, will be opened formally Thursday after years of regulatory and legal tangles. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

PRIMM, Nevada (AP) — A windy stretch of the Mojave Desert once roamed by tortoises and coyotes has been transformed by hundreds of thousands of mirrors into the largest solar power plant of its type in the world, a milestone for a growing industry that is testing the balance between wilderness conservation and the pursuit of green energy across the

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New Mexico Man Sues After Police Conduct 14-Hour Anal Search For Drugs

The police didn’t find any narcotics, but that didn’t stop them from charging the slew of medical bills to the suspect anyway.

Katie Rucke
By Katie Rucke

New Mexico resident David Eckert has filed a federal lawsuit against a local police department and hospital after authorities -- suspicious he was hiding narcotics in his anus -- conducted a colonoscopy, multiple X-rays, several cavity searches, gave him three enemas without his consent and watched him defecate. According to the lawsuit, Eckert

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