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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...

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Carlsbad Scientist off to Austria for international atomic energy conference

CARLSBAD — Carlsbad scientist Dr. Punam Thakur has been invited to attend an exclusive consultancy meeting in Vienna, Austria, in September. Thakur, a radio chemist with the Carlsbad Environ-mental...

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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...

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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...

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Two years after Fukushima: Carlsbad radiation center helped monitor US for...

From the Current-Argus, Carlsbad (3/12/2013) — Two years ago this week, the world watched in horror as a massive earthquake registering 9.0 on the Richter Scale hit Japan, followed by a tsunami on the...

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Research center keeps tabs on radiation levels of WIPP employees, neighbors

From the Current-Argus, Carlsbad (2/17/2013) — It may look like a torture chamber at first glance, but a step inside the mysterious cast iron room at the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research...

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NMSU research center in Carlsbad monitors environmental effects of nuclear...

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...

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CEMRC Detects Trace Amounts of Radioactive Particles at Air Sampling Station...

Scientists at the Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center (CEMRC), an entity of New Mexico State University, have detected trace amounts of the radioactive isotopes Americium (241Am) and...

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Lab sees rise in requests for radiation scans after WIPP accident

CARLSBAD >> A Carlsbad lab that tests for radioactive contamination has received in the past week as many requests for appointments as it normally does in six months. The recent discovery of...

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CEMRC radiological results from air sampling in the WIPP site following the...

  The Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center (CEMRC), an entity of New Mexico State University, has completed radiological separation and analyses of air filter samples taken from within...

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New Ambient Air Sampling Results Show WIPP Radiation Levels Continue to...

Air Sampling Locations Data Table The Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring & Research Center, an entity of New Mexico State University, continues to collect ambient air filters, on a weekly basis,...

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Update on CEMRC radiological results from air and surface water sampling...

An Update on CEMRC radiological results from air and surface water sampling activities following the February 14th, 2014 radiation detection event The Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research...

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Radiological results from sediment and surface water sampling following...

Surface Water Samples On March 20th and on March 28th, CEMRC technicians collected surface water samples from the three public reservoirs in the area including Brantley Lake, Lake Carlsbad (lower...

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An Update on Lung and Whole Body Counting Activities

An Update on Lung and Whole Body Counting Activities on Area Residents Measured After the 2/14/14 WIPP Underground Radiation Event By: Dr. Russell Hardy   The Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and...

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Carlsbad Environmental Monitoring and Research Center Expands Ambient Air...

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...

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WIPP false alarm of Station B radiological measurements confirmed by...

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...

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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...

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700 C Fan Test Results

The initial four-hour 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...

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WIPP 700C fan restart test results show 1/10,000 radioactivity levels less...

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...

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