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WIPP 700C fan restart test results show 1/10,000 radioactivity levels less than average household levels of natural radioactivity!
The initial test of the WIPP 700-C fan was conducted on Jan 31, 2021. During this test, CEMRC collected air particulate samples at the release point, and several other locations in the surrounding environment, to monitor for any radionuclide releases. The analysis of these samples is now complete and the results for both 24 hours…Continue Reading »
NMSU Carlsbad environmental monitoring facility allays public concerns
Over the past 26 years, the scientists and lab technicians at New Mexico State University’s Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center have been monitoring the air, soil, water and people residing in the area surrounding the Department of Energy Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. Fortunately, with little to no variance in environmental conditions related to WIPP,…Continue Reading »
WIPP false alarm of Station B radiological measurements confirmed by independent laboratory
Following last Tuesday’s false alarm at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center (CEMRC), a division of the College of Engineering at New Mexico State University, conducted both non-destructive gross alpha/beta screening and isotopic destructive analyses of a WIPP Station B exhaust air filter collected the morning of August…Continue Reading »
Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center Expands Ambient Air Monitoring Program
Following the February 14, 2014 underground radiation release event at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), scientists at the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center (CEMRC) saw a need to expand their ambient air monitoring capabilities in order to provide additional information to area residents in the event of a future radiation release event. Historically,…Continue Reading »
NMSU research center in Carlsbad monitors environmental effects of nuclear facility
LAS CRUCES >> New Mexico State University’s College of Engineering has a unit in Carlsbad whose mission is to conduct an independent program to monitor people and the environment for exposure to radioactive materials. The facility, called the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center, also studies the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, commonly know as the…Continue Reading »
CEMRC Gets New Organic Chemistry Department Head
“On behalf of CEMRC, I am pleased that Dr. Srirama has accepted this position and look forward to working with him to grow and enhance the OC and EC departments in the future.” – CEMRC Director Russell Hardy On January 1, 2013, Praveen Srirama was promoted as the manager of the Organic and Environmental Chemistry…Continue Reading »
Experts: Radiation from Japan unlikely to affect Carlsbad
By Matlin Smith Current-Argus Staff Writer CARLSBAD – Local radio chemists from the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring & Research Center assure the Carlsbad public that radiation from Japan will not affect the city as long as current conditions remain the same overseas. ” We will eventually see litt le spikes” said Dr. George Mulholland. the interim…Continue Reading »
Hardy leaving NMSU-C helm
From the Current-Argus, CARLSBAD — The president at New Mexico State University’s Carlsbad campus is changing jobs at the end of this year. Effective Jan. 1, Russell Hardy will become director of the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring & Research Center. In his new position, Hardy will lead the NMSU partnership with Los Alamos National Labs, Sandia…Continue Reading »