Safely ridding the nation of one of the world’s largest excess stockpiles of weapons-grade plutonium will be no minor feat. At issue is the US Energy Department’s 2016 decision to...
“We want an end to the situation where New Mexico is the only nuclear waste dump for all 50 states. The concern is that if you increase the number of...
[Michelle Lujan Grisham] sided with residents’ contention — which she has stated in the past — New Mexico shouldn’t be home to the nation’s sole nuclear waste storage site. “The...
“The agency has said little overall about its plans, despite the potential hazards, said Cindy Weehler, who co-chairs the watchdog group 285 ALL.” By Scott Wyland [email protected] Santa Fe New...
“In the end, more than five times could be spent on that building than was spent constructing the $4 billion One World Trade Center — all to manufacture bomb cores,...
Tom Clements, executive director of the nonprofit Savannah River Site Watch, said the unspent fuel rods at Los Alamos contain weapons-grade plutonium. He also contended the proposed disposal method is...
“According to a release, under the terms of the settlement, the Dept. of Energy remains obligated to remove the plutonium by 2037.” BY: Alexx Altman-Devilbiss | wpde.com COLUMBIA, S.C (WPDE) —...
What’s the lifespan of a nuke’s “pit” anyway? BY: JOE GOULD | defensenews.com Experts are pleading with Congress to get a firm age limit on plutonium cores of U.S. nuclear weapons. A...
WIPP was supposed to be a demonstration for the rest of the country, a test run to see if nuclear waste could be buried in salt elsewhere. It wasn’t meant...
Siegfried Hecker serves as a scientific shuttle diplomat, building ties with rival nuclear researchers the world over. BY STEPHEN SHANKLAND | cnet.com When you think of efforts to pare down the world’s...
kolotv.com | RENO January 30th, 2019 See video of news conference by governor & attorney general of Nevada, angry about DOE’s secret shipment of plutonium from SRS to NV, with SRS Watch comments: https://www.kolotv.com/content/news/505096611.html...
kolotv.com | RENO January 30th, 2019 See video of news conference by governor & attorney general of Nevada, angry about DOE’s secret shipment of plutonium from SRS to NV, with SRS Watch comments: https://www.kolotv.com/content/news/505096611.html...
July 11, 2017. SRS Watch reports: U.S. DOE Documents Obtained via FOIA Request Confirm "Mission Need" to Expand "Dilute and Dispose" Method of Plutonium Disposition at Savannah River Site, Replacing...
While being narrowly correct, LANL PR man Kevin Roark is misleading when he claims [in a June 25, Letter to the Editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper] that...
In response to a question by Senator Jeff Bingaman at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on April 14, 2010, NNSA Administrator Tom D’Agostino stated “We will not make pits...
2018 Media NMED And EM-LA Present FY2019 Legacy Cleanup Priorities In Community Meeting Los Alamos Reporter, Dec 1, 2018, By Marie O’Neill Under public comment, Jay Coghlan, director of Nuclear...
“I’ve always fought misguided efforts to deposit nuclear waste in Nevada, and I’ll keep working with the Nevada delegation to pass my consent-based siting bill that would ensure these dangerous...
In response to community concerns about the proposed increased shipments of more dangerous forms of plutonium along New Mexico State Road 599, Santa Fe County District 2 Commissioner Anna Hansen...
Nuclear Watch New Mexico, along with other watchdog groups, has announced a lawsuit against the Biden administration over its expanded production of plutonium cores for the U.S. nuclear weapons “modernization”...
“People like to think that every nuclear-armed country has only one “button”, with which a president could consciously choose to start a nuclear war, after careful deliberation. But in fact...
Several nuclear waste experts are urging members of Congress and the public to oppose any proposals to transport highly radioactive nuclear waste from power plants to temporary or long-term storage...
“There are some new designs, but they are not demonstrably greater, so we are still dealing with the same exact issues,” said Samuel Hickey, a research analyst with the Center...
The experts are recommending the Energy Department conduct an environmental review to consider the full effects of the plan on the repository, which plays a key role in the nation’s...
2018 Media NMED And EM-LA Present FY2019 Legacy Cleanup Priorities In Community Meeting Los Alamos Reporter, Dec 1, 2018, By Marie O’Neill Under public comment, Jay Coghlan, director of Nuclear...
BY THAD MOORE [email protected] About this series This article is the second part in “Lethal Legacy,” The Post and Courier’s investigation into the nation’s plans for disposing of plutonium, the...