The question arose at the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability meeting this week over the potential level of future pit production at LANL and the role that the Chemistry and Metallurgy...
SovereignTea Community Conversations on Environmental Justice Sunday, June 16 1 – 4 pm TWU Office in Española or online/Google Meets TWU’s Environmental Justice Program invites you to our second SovereignTea conversation...
Your Nuclear Watch New Mexico team has just returned from a weeklong trip to Washington D.C. (we went so you don’t have to!). We proudly joined the Alliance for Nuclear...
NukeWatch has recently published a project on plutonium sampling at Los Alamos National Laboratory showing plutonium migration and contamination into the groundwater at and around the lab. See more: Click...
Plutonium hotspots appear along tribal lands, hiking trails, city streets and the Rio Grande River, a watchdog group finds “Nuclear Watch’s driving question, according to Scott Kovac, its operations and...
Who: Nuclear Watch New Mexico and chemist Dr. Michael Ketterer, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Arizona University What: Nuclear Watch has mapped plutonium migration based on sampling data from Intellus,...
https://nukewatch.org/interactive-map-plutonium-contamination-and-migration-around-lanl/
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, April 17, 2024 Tom Clements, SRS Watch – 803.240.7268 | Email Scott Yundt, TVC – 415.990.2070 | Email Jay Coghlan – 505.989.7342 | Email Nearly three years...
By Jay Coghlan, The Santa Fe Reporter | sfreporter.com Cover, March 13: “The Foilies” THE GREATEST FOILIE OF ALL The Reporter should stick around in its own back yard for the “The Foilies: Recognizing...
Arms Race Accelerates with MIRVed Warheads Los Alamos Lab Cleanup Cut Ironically the day after the film Oppenheimer was awarded multiple Oscars, the Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security...
Arms Race Accelerates with MIRVed Warheads Los Alamos Lab Cleanup Cut FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, March 11, 2024 Jay Coghlan – 505.989.7342 | Email Santa Fe, NM – Ironically the day...
Some DOE/NNSA budget numbers from FY 2024 Energy and Water Agreement https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20240304/FY24%20EW%20Conference%20JES%20scan.pdf President must sign by Friday March 8 to avoid a partial government shutdown, including DOE and NNSA. Lowlights:...
Are America’s plutonium pits too old to perform in the new Cold War? Or are new ones necessary? “To look at short-term change [in plutonium pits], scientists have created experiments...
By Jay Coghlan Texas wildfires live updates: Blaze grows to 500k acres, leading to power outages, evacuations across the map nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/texas-wildfires-live-updates-huge-blaze-covers-300000-acres-forcing-ev The 2000 Cerro Grande Fire burned 3,500 acres...
FEDERAL BUDGET NEWS Release of federal FY 2025 budget expected March 11 (it will initially be just topline numbers). Meanwhile on the FY 2024 budget: House and Senate Armed Services...
Thursday, February 15, 4 – 7 p.m. at Santa Fe Community College The U.S. Department of Energy and its nuclear security agency will hold a second hearing on the power...
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has just released cursory two or three page summaries of contractors’ performance paid for by the American taxpayer. For the just ended fiscal year...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, January 19, 2024 Jay Coghlan – 505.989.7342 | Email Santa Fe, NM – The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has just released cursory two or three page...
Sen. Heinrich is so proud of all of the nuclear weapons money in New Mexico. He is one of the chief congressional architects of expanded production of plutonium “pit” bomb...
FEDERAL BUDGET NEWS Half of the federal budget (including Energy and Water appropriations which funds DOE) shuts down January 19 and the other half February 2 if a Continuing Resolution...
Nuclear weapons issues Final conference by Senate and House Armed Services Committee deleted expansion of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act that would have covered Trinity Test Downwinders, among others. In...
Nuclear weapons issues New bomb: The Pentagon has announced a new nuclear bomb, the B61-13. The B61-12 is now in production and will be forward deployed in Europe. But it...
Extended 2-Page Sample Comments available now! Download here: nukewatch.org/mda-c-2023-2-page-sample-comments-10-25-23-2 [WORD DOC] We need your help to support the State’s mandate to excavate wastes instead of leaving them in place. The...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, October 12, 2023 Jay Coghlan – 505.989.7342 | Email Santa Fe, NM – Today, America’s Strategic Posture, The Final Report was released by the Congressional Commission on...
Today, America’s Strategic Posture, The Final Report was released by the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States. In its own words: “The Congressional Commission on the...