Beyond Nuclear International Weekly Digest, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Posted: 17th September 2024

While much attention has been focused on Japan’s discharges of liquid tritium into the Pacific Ocean from the stricken Fukushima nuclear site, hardly anyone is talking about the plans at Los Alamos National Laboratory to vent tritium gas into the air across Indigenous lands, writes Alicia Inez Guzmán.

“A generational health issue”

The venting of tritium gas proposed by Los Alamos would take place not over decades, as in Japan, but over a matter of days and involve three times more tritium - thousands of curies - than is being dumped from the Fukushima nuclear site. Those most impacted will be surrounding Indigenous populations. “We see this as a generational health issue,” says Kayleigh Warren (pictured right) of Tewa Women United, one of the groups opposing the release.  READ MORE

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