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Billions of Taxpayer Dollars to be Spent on Plutonium Pit Production – NNSA Chooses Speed Over Safety, Condones Potential Lethal Radioactive Doses to Public
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, April 22, 2022 | Contact: Scott Kovac, 505.989.7342 [email protected] | Jay Coghlan, 505.989.7342 [email protected] Santa Fe, NM – The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the semi-autonomous nuclear...
Los Alamos Lab: More Plutonium, More Nuclear Weapons
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, April 18, 2022 | Contact: Jay Coghlan, 505.989.7342, [email protected], Scott Kovac, 505.989.7342, [email protected], Santa Fe, NM – On Good Friday afternoon, just before the Easter weekend, the...
Biden’s FY 2023 Budget Fuels New Nuclear Arms Race
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, April 12, 2022 | Contact: Jay Coghlan, 505.989.7342, [email protected], Scott Kovac, 505.989.7342, [email protected], Santa Fe, NM – The Biden Administration is slow rolling its nuclear weapons budget...
JOIN US TONIGHT! NM Environment Department Quarterly Los Alamos Community Engagement Meeting 5:30-7 PM, April 6
The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) will host a virtual Los Alamos community engagement meeting from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6, 2022. The purpose of these routine...
With Russia at war in Ukraine, US ramps up nuclear-weapons mission at Los Alamos. Is it a ‘real necessity’?
“The core debate: A multi-billion-dollar project to make plutonium cores at Los Alamos National Laboratory may be unsafe, unnecessary and ill-conceived. But proponents say the mission is a must.” BY...
Environment Department to host quarterly Los Alamos community engagement meeting on April 6
The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) will host a virtual Los Alamos community engagement meeting from 5:30 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 6, 2022. The purpose of these routine...
NukeWatch Lawsuit Settlement Speeds Up Cleanup at Los Alamos Lab
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, March 23, 2022 | Contact: Jay Coghlan, 505.989.7342, [email protected], Scott Kovac, 505.989.7342, [email protected], Santa Fe, NM – Today, Nuclear Watch New Mexico is announcing successful settlement of...
Confirmation that SRS Plutonium was taken to DOE’s Pantex Site in Texas
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB), which conducts oversight of DOE projects, has confirmed that plutonium from SRS was taken to the Pantex site in Texas, for storage. Sounds...
‘More than 1,000’ New Mexicans call State to oppose plutonium plan at nuclear waste site
By Adrian Hedden Carlsbad Current-Argus March 4, 2022 currentargus.com “New Mexico agreed to host WIPP after carefully crafting agreements that limit what the federal government can do with it. It...
Why You Should Care about the Expanding WIPP Mission
Cindy Weehler gave a powerful speech during the March 1, 2022 press conference at the New Mexico Capitol about why you should care about the expanding mission for the Waste...
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant leadership expect nuclear waste site to be open until 2050
The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration claims that a little more than half of WIPP’s future capacity will be reserved for future plutonium pit bomb core production. Further, those new...
Santa Fe archbishop sees nuclear disarmament as moral imperative
“…If we have nuclear weapons, and if we, heaven forbid, got to the point where we use them on each other, it would be catastrophic. And so I want this...
Los Alamos lab contractor receives good rating in annual review but had safety lapses – Santa Fe New Mexican
The cursory assessment winds up glossing over what could be serious problems at the lab, said Jay Coghlan, executive director of Nuclear Watch New Mexico. “The full evaluation reports used...
Six B-21s in Production, Fuel Control Software Already Tested
The nuclear modernization effort, however, does face one potentially significant hurdle, particularly for missiles such as the GBSD and the Long Range Standoff Weapon: the production of plutonium “pits” that go...
DOE Office of Environmental Management February Bulletin: “Angled Well Drilling Protects Groundwater, Ancient Cultural Sites at Los Alamos”
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. – EM crews have successfully completed a complex project that protects cultural and ecological resources throughout the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) site while enabling more thorough...
COVID-19 an obstacle for nuclear waste disposal at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, officials say
Officials plan to ramp up operations as pandemic hoped to subside “With continued increases in shipments, WIPP officials said they hoped to fill the seventh disposal panel by the middle...
Nuclear weapons development coming soon to Los Alamos National Laboratory amid safety concerns
During the question and answer period, Nuclear Watch New Mexico executive director Jay Coghlan said he was fascinated to hear that there was some funding allocated for a new SWEIS....
Nuclear Disarmament & The Archdiocese of Santa Fe
WORK PRODUCT NUKEWATCH IN THE MEDIA Atomic Histories & Nuclear Testing NukeWatch Compilation of the DOE/NNSA FY 2020 Budget Request - VIEW LANL FY 2020 Budget Request - VIEW Sandia FY...
Los Alamos National Laboratory Environmental Management Cleanup Forum – January 27
Are you curious about the environmental cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory? Do you want to have a voice in upcoming decisions? Please join us for a virtual community meeting....
Current U.S. Nuclear Weapons Issues: New Year’s Update — January 15, 2022
U.S. nuclear weapons issues: In anticipation of the NonProliferation Treaty Review Conference that was to start January 4 the P-5 (original nuclear weapons powers U.S., Russia, China, France and U.K.)...
Public Meeting: Los Alamos National Laboratory Consent Order Update – Thursday, January 6, 2022, 5:30 – 7pm
The state of New Mexico’s Environment Department (NMED) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Los Alamos field office (EM-LA) will host a public meeting on January 6, 2022...
Signs Calling for a Future of Peace Through a Reminder of the Past
Less than a week before the Christmas holiday, over 125 people came together at the statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the afternoon of Sunday, December 19th to listen...
Why Los Alamos lab is working on the tricky task of creating new plutonium cores
“While the labs work on relearning high-stakes industrial techniques for terrifying weapons, it is estimated that most of the existing warheads will remain fully functional for at least 100 years...
Energy Department to spend $15.5M to upgrade route from Los Alamos lab to waste site [WIPP]
“Essentially blessing what DOE was going to have to do anyway in order to expand nuclear weapons activities and waste disposal,” said Jay Coghlan, executive director of Nuclear Watch New...