The meeting will be 7 to 9 p.m. in Fuller Lodge and the public is invited to attend.
Dr. Charles Key, director of the New Mexico Tumor Registry at the University of New Mexico, and Mack Sewell of the New Mexico Health Department's Office of Epidemiology will present recent data on thyroid-cancer rates and brain-tumor rates in Los Alamos County.
After the presentation, a panel of health experts will discuss whether Los Alamos residents should be concerned by the data. Members of the public may ask questions or provide input during the discussion. Joan McIver Gibson, director of the Health Sciences Ethics Program at the University of New Mexico, will moderate the dialogue.
The panel also will include Laurie Wiggs, an epidemiologist in the Laboratory's Occupational Medicine Group; John Stroud, a member of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety; Helen Stanbro, a resident of Los Alamos and a member of the former Working Group to Address Los Alamos Community Health Concerns; and Ken Silver a graduate student at the Boston University School of Public Health.
Wednesday's meeting will be the third in a series of meetings being hosted by the Laboratory to answer questions that people may have about Laboratory operations. The meetings are part of a negotiated settlement of a lawsuit by Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety under the federal Clean Air Act.
Los Alamos National Laboratory, a multidisciplinary research institution engaged in strategic science on behalf of national security, is operated by Los Alamos National Security, LLC, a team composed of Bechtel National, the University of California, The Babcock & Wilcox Company, and the Washington Division of URS for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration.
Los Alamos enhances national security by ensuring the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile, developing technologies to reduce threats from weapons of mass destruction, and solving problems related to energy, environment, infrastructure, health, and global security concerns.