Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety Joni Arends

What it reported doing in 2024

Public education and outreach through the ccns media network, ccns produces a weekly radio program of about 485 words, or about four minutes in length, called the "ccns news update." we then post the broadcast, podcast, written text and the associated visuals to our website at nuclearactive.org and to social media (facebook, instagram and twitter). Each broadcast is emailed to the media and several hundred subscribers.in addition, in order to encourage public participation in federal, state and local policy decisionmaking processes impacting public health and the environment, ccns researches and prepares public educational materials such as fact sheets, sample comment letters, and reports. These materials are distributed through the ccns media network.in both of these cases, the ccns news update and the written arguments based on factual grounds make it possible for people to take action or to speak to small groups. Ccns acts as an intermediary making it possible for people to accurately testify at local, state and federal public meetings and hearings. Ccns provides factual information for people who may not have the time to do the detailed research but are committed to safety where nuclear issues are concerned and are willing to testify in public. Here are examples of some of the topics covered by the weekly ccns news updates. The topics are chosen so that readers may be informed to take action on the issues that have public relevance: january 2024 public comments on the "final" los alamos national laboratory (lanl) remedy for the hexavalent chromium plume are due by february 12th; february 2024public comments needed about the proposed electrical power capacity upgrade (epcu) project for a new electrical line to lanl that would cross the sacred caja del rio plateau, the rio grande and the pajarito plateau; march 2024updates about the waste isolation pilot plant (wipp) and the first annual plutonium trail caravan; april 2024two updates about the first annual plutonium trail caravan, and the continuing safety problems with the new wipp shaft; the national nuclear security administration (nnsa) delay of urgent research on the aging of plutonium "pits" while spending billions of dollars on nuclear weapon bomb cores; may 2024wipp operations detailing ongoing concerns about flaws in emergency air monitoring; need for public comments about proposed fracking of wastewater reuse rule; and the need to ban open burning and open detonation of pfas, toxic carcinogenic explosive materials; below we describe our summer activities: june 2024updates about uranium mining and the impacts to the grand canyon - a call to close and cleanup the pinyon plains uranium mine; daniel ellsberg week june 10th through 16th - a week of education and action to honor peacemaking and whistleblowing; and the proposed epcu project at lanl; july 2024 july 22nd department of energy (doe) and national nuclear security administration (nnsa) town hall about expansion plans for lanl and wipp; 45th annual uranium spill commemoration at church rock, New Mexico; and archbishop wester hosts commemoration event for the trinity test 80 years ago; august 2024two hybrid public meetings about wipp expansion; august 9th commemoration event on the santa fe plaza for hiroshima and nagasaki bombings; international physicians for the preventin of nuclear war (ippnw) co-president carlos umana explores making nuclear weapons taboo; below we describe our fall activitiesseptember 2024two weeks of action on nuclear weapons and climate; and ccns submits comments about the need to excavate the mixed wast landfill at sandia national laboratories in albuquerque; october 2024join the three sistrers collective to paint the "i am life (creator of worlds)" mural in o'ga p"ogeh owingeh; and four updates about need for comments about the proposed lanl epcu project; november 2024lanl's plans to vent large quantities of radioactive tritium in the air; united nations to study the impacts of nuclear

Financial Efficiency

• Mission deployment rate: 0%; rating input score 0
• Program expense ratio: 0%; rating input score 0

Transparency & Controls

• Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
• Major donor itemization: Limited

Sustainability

• Operating margin: -348.5%; rating input score 3; 3rd percentile among comparable filings
• Total-asset coverage ratio: 0.77; rating input score 39; 39th percentile among comparable filings
• Liabilities to assets ratio: 0; rating input score 68; 68th percentile among comparable filings
• Officer compensation ratio: 0%; rating input score 56; 56th percentile among comparable filings

Growth

• Program expense growth: -6.6% per year; rating input score 0; 32nd percentile among comparable filings
• Revenue growth: -0.9% per year; rating input score 0; 48th percentile among comparable filings
• Asset growth: 6.3% per year; rating input score 100; 62nd percentile among comparable filings