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Nuclear in New Mexico conference in Bernalillo continued the myth that nuclear power is clean and safe

Remembering Chornobyl at 40; The Harm Continues

Last week’s Nuclear in New Mexico conference in Bernalillo continued the myth that expansion of the nuclear cycle in New Mexico would be welcomed here. Activities such as expanded uranium mining and milling, generating plutonium-contaminated waste at Los Alamos National Laboratory for disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), and transporting that waste through our communities would be good.

While New Mexico does not have a nuclear power plant, the Public Service Company of New Mexico, or PNM, is invested in and receives energy from the second largest nuclear power plant in the United States – the Palo Verde Generating Station, located west of Phoenix, Arizona. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palo_Verde_Nuclear_Generating_Station

On the 40th anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear reactor accident, Linda Pentz Gunter, Executive Director of Beyond Nuclear and an author of No To Nuclear. Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress And Provokes War, wrote an article about Remembering Chornobyl. The entire article is available at https://beyondnuclearinternational.org/2026/04/19/remembering-chornobyl/. 40 years on we are still asking the wrong questions and getting a lot of wrong answers, writes Linda Pentz Gunter.

May 4, 2026 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | spinbuster