NukeWatch Fact Sheets and Documents On the Nuclear Weapons Complex
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Fact Sheet May 15, 2018: Los Alamos Cleanup
(view/download PDF)
Public Comments Submitted April 25, 2018:
Public Comments Filed on NNSA Proposal to Raise Plutonium Limit Ten-Fold in Los Alamos' Rad Lab
See NukeWatch's critique of these plans - our official 'public comments' as submitted (PDF)
Addendum to NukeWatch comments:
(PDF)
NukeWatch fact sheet, September 26, 2017:
Expanded Plutonium Pit Production at LANL Will Not Result in Significant Positive Effect On Job Creation and the Regional Economy
The National Nuclear Security Administration's own documents have explicitly stated that expanded pit production would have no significant positive effect on job creation and the regional economy of northern New Mexico. Nuclear Watch argues that expanded plutonium pit production could actually have negative effect if it blocks other economic alternatives such as comprehensive cleanup, which could be the real job producer. Moreover, given LANL's poor safety and environmental record, expanded plutonium pit production could have a seriously negative economic impact on northern New Mexico in the event of any major accidents.
- (see fact sheet, Sept 26)
September 11, 2017:
Talking Points: The 2016 LANL Cleanup Consent Order Should Be Rescinded
The 2005 LANL Cleanup Consent Order was all about the enforceable schedules. It required DOE and LANL to investigate, characterize, and clean up hazardous and mixed radioactive contaminants from 70 years of nuclear weapons research and production. It stipulated a detailed compliance schedule that the Lab was required to meet...
Under Gov. Martinez, NMED Secretary Ryan Flynn granted more than 150 compliance milestone extensions at the Lab's request, effectively eviscerating it.
A revised Consent Order was agreed in 2016, but was a big step backward in achieving comprehensive, genuine cleanup at the Lab. The revised CO was a giveaway by NMED to DOE and the Lab, negotiated to allow DOE's budget to drive cleanup, not what is needed to permanently protect our water...
(view/download the complete talking points)
NukeWatch fact sheet, updated March 2017:
Plutonium Pit Production at LANL
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Successful Citizen Activism Against Expanded U.S. Plutonium Pit Production
This is the unsung story of successful citizen activism against repeated government attempts to expand the production of plutonium pit cores, which has always been the choke point of resumed U.S. nuclear weapons production. This history is a critical part of the march toward a future world free of nuclear weapons.
(View/download PDF)
August 12, 2015:
Amicus Brief in Support of Marshall Islands Lawsuit
The amicus brief has been prepared by: Hans Kristensen, Director of the Nuclear Information Project at the Federation of American Scientists; Dr. James Doyle, a nuclear nonproliferation expert fired by Los Alamos National Lab after publishing a study arguing for nuclear weapons abolition; Robert Alvarez, a former Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary of Energy, now at the Institute for Policy Studies; and Jay Coghlan, director of Nuclear Watch New Mexico.
NukeWatch fact sheet, May 8, 2015:
"Four Reasons Why U.S. Claims of NPT Compliance Are False"
May 2015:
Alliance For Nuclear Accountability Report: "The Growing U.S. Nuclear Threat"
NukeWatch fact sheet, March 27, 2015:
Plutonium Pit Production at LANL
NukeWatch chart, February 2015:
LANL FY 2016 Congressional Budget Request
2014
- Senator Markey Nov. 17, 2014 letter to Secretary Moniz regarding the case of James Doyle
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"Increasing the Effectiveness of Nonproliferation and Verification Technology:
Development Programs, Initial Findings and Recommendations"
by Dr. James Doyle, Assisted by Jay Coghlan and Scott Kovac (NukeWatch) Nov 16, 2014
- Los Alamos National Laboratory 101 (Sep 26, 2014)
- Sandia National Laboratories 101 (Sep 26, 2014)
- FY2015 Budget LANL Lab Chart with Table
- Pit Production History (Feb 5, 2014)
- Area G Cleanup NWNM presentation Jan 17, 2014 (Power point file, partially corrupted)
- Area G Cleanup Jobs Dec. 11, 2013
- HeatherWilson Sandia contract invoices.pdf
- Comments for the Supplemental Mercury Storage EIS June 5, 2013
- W78, W88 Nuclear Weapons Council Memo Dec.7, 2012.pdf
- Navy Memo Re W87 W88
- Uranium Processing Facility Updates:
Dec. 2014 /
Aug. 2014 /
July 2014 /
June 2014 /
Jan. 2014 /
Dec. 2013
Dec.12, 2013 Updated:
Fact Sheet- Clean Up, Don't Build Up (PDF)
New Mexicans should push their politicians to vigorously lobby for comprehensive cleanup at LANL. Unlike nuclear weapons programs, cleanup would be a win-win that permanently protects the environment and creates hundreds of high paying jobs.
April 22, 2012:
NukeWatch Presentation Public Meeting, Santa Fe ("Occupy Los Alamos!")
March, 2012:
Nuclear Budget Busters: The U.S. Department of Energy's Riskiest, Most Unaccountable Projects
- a report from Alliance for Nuclear Accountability and Nuclear Watch New Mexico
April, 2011:
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability's 2011 report on nuclear pork projects.
October 28, 2010:
Presentation - 'Modernization' of the Nuclear Weapons Complex: As Proposed and How It Should Be
- Marylia Kelley, Jay Coghlan (with narration) [20 MB PPT]
August 13, 2010:
Presentation- Kansas City Plant and the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex [14 MB PPT]
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(updated with development agreement info) [4 MB PDF version]
July 13, 2010:
NWNM-Analysis FY11-SSM Plan
NWNM-Analysis FY11-SSM Plan Future Radioactive Waste Operations - July 13, 2010
Presentation- The Enduring Stockpile - July 3, 2010
Presentation- A Dubious Bargain - July 2, 2010>
Kansas City and the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex (June update, PDF version)- June 17, 2010
Rebuild of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Production Capacity (three new facilities) - April 29, 2010
Focus on the Proposed New Nuclear Facility at Los Alamos - April 29, 2010
What is Los Alamos? Read our Primer [452 KB] - February 19, 2010
Congressional Budget - Two-Thirds of Lab's Request is for Nuclear Weapons [93KB] - February 19, 2010
Presentation- Kansas City and the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex - January 8, 2010
Costly Plutonium "Nuclear Facility" at Los Alamos Conflicts With New National Security Goals -December 16, 2009
Background Paper: Plutonium Operations Space Requirements and Availability at LANL -December 16, 2009
Nuclear Watch Analysis of Funding for the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration [280KB] -October 20, 2009
Equipment Will More Than Double the Cost of Plutonium Rad Lab [1.4MB] -September 23, 2009
'Work for Others' Key to Lab's Growth - Nuclear Watch chart comparing the two labs [164KB] -September 3, 2008
Facts Vs. Claims about LANL's Role in Complex Transformation [152KB] -March 20, 2008
Factsheet on the Risks of Permanent Pit Production Operations at LANL [196KB] -March 13, 2008
Read our backgrounder on Pit Production at LANL [212 kb] - March 1, 2008
See NukeWatch's "New Policies, Not New Bombs" Powerpoint [9.5 MB] - March 1, 2008
Nuclear Watch fact sheet on the Kansas City Plant [148kb] -October 19, 2007
Fact sheet on Greater-Than-Class-C (GTCC) waste and Hardened On-site Storage (HOSS) [136KB] -August 3, 2007
Nuclear Watch Factsheet on 500-ton Tests at WSMR [352KB] -July 27, 2007
LANL's First "Certified" Plutonium Pit: Unnecessary, Provocative, Behind Schedule and Over Budget [160KB] -July 2, 2007
Nuclear Watch rebuttal to "Myths vs. Facts" about RRW [596KB] -March 2, 2007
Economic and Environmental Issues in New Mexico [4.2MB] -December 2006
The Ages of Nuclear Weapons in The U.S. Arsenal [272KB] -December 6, 2006
In the 'Hungriest' State, The USA's Richest County Is Fed by Nuclear Weapons Programs [280KB] -November 24, 2006
Update: Divine Strake to Strike New Mexico [431k] -October 13, 2006
CMRR Fact Sheet - [172KB] -June 9, 2006
The Divine Strake Test [212k]-May 31, 2006
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policies and the Kansas City Plant [228 kb] -July 25, 2006
Nuclear Weapons Forever: The Reliable Replacement Warhead -March 17, 2006
DOE Sites at Which Bechtel Has a Presence -December 21, 2005
Reliable Replacement Warhead fact sheet update [60k] -October 17. 2005
Area G at Los Alamos: Lab Plans Expansion and Operations Until at Least 2044 [129k] -October 12, 2005
Reliable Replacement Warhead Fact Sheet [59k] -April 8, 2005
Your Tax Dollars at Work: Privileged Los Alamos Lifestyle Paid for by Weapons of Mass Destruction [125k] -June/July 2004
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