Vol. 9, No. 120

Reindustrialization & Redevelopment

Judge rejects request to fiddle with Rocky Flats hiking trail decision

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has refused a request by Physicians for Social Responsibility and other groups to fix what they deem a mistake in an earlier ruling concerning a public hiking trail near where the Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant in Colorado once stood. Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR) and other plaintiffs asked […]
  • Cleanup & Remediation

    Entire 8th Circuit asked to hear Coldwater Creek appeal

    Cotter Corporation and other defendants last week asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit to reconsider whether litigation should be allowed to go forward by two sisters who blame their cancer on St. Louis area radioactive contamination dating to the Manhattan Project. The petition for rehearing was filed Nov. 27 by […]

  • Delivery Systems & Nuclear Triad

    White House nominates new commander of Air Force Nuclear Systems Center

    President Joe Biden (D) on Tuesday nominated Air Force Major General Mark Pye to take command of the Air Force Nuclear Systems Center in New Mexico as a lieutenant general. Pye, whose promotion requires Senate approval, is currently the director of programs at the office of the deputy chief of staff for plans and programs […]

  • National Laboratories

    Santa Fe commissioners to meet with coalition opposed to LANL powerline

    Santa Fe County commissioners were scheduled to meet Wednesday with a coalition for the Caja del Rio plateau to discuss making the plateau near the Los Alamos National Laboratory a monument, one of them said Tuesday. Commissioner Anna Hansen told the Monitor about Wednesday’s scheduled meeting in an email the week after the local Santa […]

  • International

    Ukraine nuclear plants lower power levels twice in two weeks, IAEA says

    The International Atomic Energy Agency said in a statement Nov. 28 that Ukraine’s three operating nuclear power plants reduced electricity due to military activity targeting the country’s energy infrastructure. “Ukraine’s energy infrastructure is extremely fragile and vulnerable, putting nuclear safety at great risk,” Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), said […]

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