Mar. 5—Federal judges in Washington, D.C., reviewed a petition Tuesday by opponents of Holtec International's plans to build an underground storage site for spent nuclear fuel in southeastern New Mexico. Petitioners contend the Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued an invalid license last year — going so far as to call it illegal — because it would allow the U.S. Department of Energy to be a ...
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Mar. 4—State regulators have fined the U.S. Department of Energy $420,000 for what they say is flawed hazardous waste storage at Los Alamos National Laboratory — problems that were never fixed after inspectors first observed them in 2022. The state has imposed penalties on the agency's Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office for three sets of violations involving waste kept in outdoor ...
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Mar. 2—Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport's $28 million terminal expansion and modernization began serving passengers on Feb. 21 after a ceremony attending by officials from all its partners, including Gilbert. The expansion will link the airport's south, middle and north concourses, "creating a seamless experience for travelers moving from Gate 1A to Gate 10," airport authority President Brian ...
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Feb. 29—Los Alamos National Laboratory's waste-cleanup contractor gave a progress report Wednesday on measures it is taking to keep storm runoff from carrying toxins from the lab's contaminated sites down the hillsides and canyons. Newport News Nuclear BWXT, or N3B for short, which has overseen the lab's legacy waste cleanup since 2018, discussed the work it has done recently in monitoring and ...
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Feb. 28—Zachary Padilla has a great job, a master's degree in social work and a family who's thrilled he's back in New Mexico after a stint in Tennessee. But the 28-year-old still can't find a home he can afford to buy, said his father, state Sen. Michael Padilla, an Albuquerque Democrat. Touting Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's signing of a bill that aims to spur housing development in New ...
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Tucson might do better funding its own long-term transportation projects rather than sticking with a regional group of governments that divvies up funding and schedules the work, a new memo from City Manager Michael Ortega says. The memo comes after years of concern from city leaders that Tucson gets too few projects despite being the largest city in the group and paying the most into the ...
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New parking lots in New Mexico are going to be more electric. Starting Aug. 1, developers will be required to install infrastructure in new developments that supports the installment of electric vehicle chargers. The state's Construction Industries Commission recently adopted the 2021 International Energy Conservation Code that includes added requirements that new buildings include ...
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Mining company South32 has decided to invest $2.16 billion in its Hermosa prospect in the Patagonia Mountains, pouring what it calls the largest private investment in Southern Arizona’s history to produce zinc ore by 2027, executives announced this week. The mine is in the once-abandoned mining district of Harshaw, where previous companies left behind significant deposits of zinc, manganese, ...
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A 10-year, $100 million renovation project at the Tucson Convention Center is now complete with technological additions and a nod to the past. “This project has been years in the making and is now about to be a time machine recognizing and honoring the history of these lands through the amazing advancements in technology with 3D augmented reality,” said Rio Nuevo Chairman, Fletcher McCusker. ...
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The Shoshone-Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation in northern Nevada broke ground Friday on a new school that will replace a 70-year-old building tribal leaders have linked to many cancer deaths in the community. “It’s quite the accomplishment,” said tribal Chairman Brian Mason. “It was a big effort by just not myself, but everybody involved. And it couldn’t have benefited a ...
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