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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.
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A controversial power line project that would dissect the Caja Del Rio plateau in northern New Mexico had a second, in-person public meeting Thursday at the Santa Fe Community College to hear public opinion on a draft environmental assessment.
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The National Nuclear Security Administration is proposing to build an energy transmission line that would run across the protected Caja del Rio wilderness in Northern New Mexico. But, leaders from pueblos and environmental groups are concerned about transparency, the legal process, and the impact on the land.
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Alicia Inez Guzmán of Searchlight New Mexico tells KUNM about finding the story of a woman who lived and died in her home town, and whose radiation was discovered in a clandestine autopsy.
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On this episode we talk with Lucie Genay, author of “Land of Nuclear Enchantment: A New Mexican History of the Nuclear Weapons Industry.”
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Sunday was the 78th anniversary of the Trinity Test, the world’s first nuclear explosion, which took place in southern New Mexico. At a remembrance in Santa Fe, Archbishop John Wester renewed his call to eliminate nuclear weapons. He was joined by anti-nuclear activists and people from a variety of faith traditions in person and online.
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One area's struggles show how difficult it is, in reality, to move on from coal.
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Since March of 2020, we’ve seen COVID-19 continue to mutate into different variants. As of right now Omicron’s subvariant BA.5 remains the dominant strain and the Biden Administration has extended the public health emergency again until October.However, Los Alamos National Laboratory is experimenting with an unusual tool that could effectively fight against and better detect COVID and its variants.
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The Southwest’s fire season is lasting longer and getting worse, according to researchers. Fire officials do have a trick up their sleeve: prescribed or planned burns. The Los Alamos National Laboratory is creating a tool that uses physics and data modeling to predict how a prescribed burn might behave before it’s lit. But, in hot, dry weather it’s harder to keep them under control.
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In the state where the atomic bomb was born and the current home of two national nuclear weapons laboratories the Archbishop of Santa Fe is calling for nuclear disarmament.