Articles of Interest
More about the Justice Department cover-up of government nuclear crimes.
JOURNAL BAMBOOZLED BY SANDIA PLAN FOR WASTE DUMP
By Sue Dayton
ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL, AUGUST 23, 2004
Unless someone at Sandia has somehow slipped more waste into the Mixed Waste Landfill over the last week, the "plutonium-contaminated matter from nuclear weapons tests, isotopes of uranium, lead, various hazardous chemicals and other matter" identified by the Journal is not why Sandia says the Mixed Waste Landfill is too dangerous to clean up.
DOE's ACCELERATED CLEAN UP = ACCELERATED COVER UP
By Sue Dayton
For Citizen Action
In the 1950s the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), the forerunner of the Department of Energy (DOE), admitted that the problem of long-lived waste from nuclear reactors was being "swept under the rug." Today, high level wastes from nuclear reactors is one part of a much larger problem that includes "legacy waste" generated as a result of nuclear weapons production.
"IT'S TIME WE DEVELOPED AN ECOLOGICAL CONSCIENCE"
By V.B. Price
ALBUQUERQUE TRIBUNE, JUNE 21, 2003
If it weren't for ecological pioneers like Aldo Leopold, the champion
of
the first wilderness area in America, New Mexico's Gila Wilderness,
matters like protecting the Rio Grande silvery minnow, opposing the
extension of Paseo del Norte through the Petroglyph National Monument,
and investigating the public hazard of the Sandia National Laboratories'
Mixed Waste Landfill probably wouldn't be enlivening the body politic
today.
By Robyn Seydel, Editor
La Montanita CO-OP Connection Newsletter
Ms. Seydel reviews the community input from two well attended recently held public meetings. These meetings were sponsored by the New Mexico Environment Department at the urging of CITIZEN ACTION so that potentially affected communities could voice their opinions concerning this hazardous waste dump.
By Susan Dayton and Miles Nelson
A tongue-in-cheek look at how Sandia Labs comes up with relative risk
when looking at buried hazardous waste in unlined pits and trenches in
the ground...
By Blake Likins, Albuquerque Tribune Front Page August 12th, 2000
Ms. Likins explores the controversy surrounding Sandia's stewardship plans for the Mixed Waste Landfill.
SANDIA'S PIT OF UNKNOWN WASTE REQUIRES CLEANUP, NOT STEWARDSHIP
By Susan Dayton
Ms. Dayton comments on the above article.
NUCLEAR WASTE: Producing it faster than we can clean it and faster than we can ignore it.
By Mario D. Garrett Ph.D.
Learn the relationship between historical events and America's current nuclear mess. Dr. Garrett explores the genesis for our attitudes leading to the development of the nuclear weapons complex and nuclear energy in this country in this very creative and fun article.
By Miles Nelson, MD
The Mixed Waste Landfill sits just outside the Albuquerque city limits and directly adjacent to the proposed Mesa del Sol subdivision. It is a radioactive and toxic dumpsight used by Sandia National Laboratories for 30 years. While not now active the dump will pose a threat to the people of the Albuquerque area for centuries to come. Sandia does not intend to clean up the Mixed Waste Landfill but instead proposes the dangerous and inadequate solution of covering it with soil and watching it for 70 years.
By Matt Lasek
The Department of Energy adeptly uses terminology to defuse alarming subjects, thus putting people at ease. Often, when the public's health is at stake, this behavior is inappropriate.
AMERICA'S CHANGING NUCLEAR POLICY
By Miles Nelson, MD
There is a concerted effort underway to alter America's nuclear policy. This change in policy carries grave long-term ramifications to public health and should be debated at the national level. Instead, insidiously, policy makers are intercalating these new strategies into the fabric of our lives without our full knowledge or consent
By Miles Nelson, MD
The Department of Energy is attempting to abdicate their cleanup responsibility nationally as well as here in New Mexico. The concept of "stewardship" was hatched to misdirect a trusting public.