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Local Communities Say NO to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL Expansion); Public Comments Due on Thursday, April 10th

2 Apr 25 https://nuclearactive.org/

Community members and Tribal advocates are standing together to say NO to the proposed expansion of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). As part of a growing movement for environmental justice and accountability, local community organizations including Tewa Women United, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, Communities for Clean Water, Honor Our Pueblo Existence, and Three Sisters Collective launched the 2025 SovereignTea Community Conversations series that will end with a powerful hybrid session that will center public education, dialogue, and action around LANL’s ongoing and proposed nuclear weapons activities.

The hybrid session will be offered on Monday, April 7th from 6 to 8 pm at the Tewa Women United offices at 1003 East Fairview Lane, in Española.  Please register for the hybrid session at: bit.ly/4iM42I0

This session will focus on the proposed venting of tens of thousands of curies of radioactive tritium into the air from four Flanged Tritium Waste Containers stored at LANL and the gendered health impacts of radiation.  https://tewawomenunited.org/2024/11/press-release-new-report-reveals-lanl-tritium-venting-could-have-triple-the-radiation-exposure-to-infants-compared-to-adults 

Dr. Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D., and President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, will discuss on Zoom the latest research about the dangers of LANL releasing radioactive tritium into the air, its impacts on pregnant women, the fetus and the environment.  https://ieer.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Arjun-Makhijani-Curriculum-Vita-2022-07-09.pdf,  https://ieer.org/projects/healthy-from-the-start/

April 5, 2025 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized