THE FUTURE OF WIPP: PLUTONIUM BOMB WASTE
NNSA’s mission is plutonium pit production…for the next 30 years and beyond. NNSA HAS STATED CLEARLY: “WIPP IS ESSENTIAL FOR PIT PRODUCTION UNTIL 2080.” As you can see clearly in...
NNSA’s mission is plutonium pit production…for the next 30 years and beyond. NNSA HAS STATED CLEARLY: “WIPP IS ESSENTIAL FOR PIT PRODUCTION UNTIL 2080.” As you can see clearly in...
Holtec has said the facility would be temporary until a permanent repository could be built, but Rep. Janelle Anyanonu, D-Albuquerque, fears that wouldn’t be the case. “Once it opens, it’s...
“I think there’s this mentality that New Mexico can just be the forever home for all the nation’s waste. It’s an exploitative mentality regarding our state.” — Sen. Jeff Steinborn,...
“Next year in spring, [Japan] plans to begin releasing the water into the Pacific after treatment for most radioactive particles…” By Pete McKenzie, NEW YORK TIMES | December 30, 2022 nytimes.com...
“The unprecedented, controversial disposal operation is likely to take decades. ” BY LUCY CRAFT, CBS NEWS | July 25, 2022 cbsnews.com Tokyo — The fishing industry around Japan’s Fukushima coast expressed...
“None of this waste we’re talking about is in New Mexico…If it actually were a good thing, if it were safe, Holtec or anybody else wouldn’t be thinking about trying...
What was billed as a public forum in Santa Fe for the underground nuclear waste disposal site in Carlsbad turned out to be a lengthy slide show with only a...
“A watchdog group criticized the Energy Department for choosing a subsidiary of Bechtel, a former partner in the consortium Los Alamos National Security LLC, which improperly packaged the waste drum...
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...
“Independent federal investigators last month raised concerns about whether cost overruns and missed construction deadlines will continue at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant…State regulators are weighing a permit change that some...
pic.twitter.com/q1aI84ZNqM — DOE WIPP (@WIPPNEWS) April 10, 2022 pic.twitter.com/VxkmX36RAy — DOE WIPP (@WIPPNEWS) April 10, 2022 Officials at the facility say there was no risk of radioactive contamination. BY ADRIAN...
Federal officials would agree only to study the possibility of clearing out waste from the Area G pit and wouldn’t commit to following through, said Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch’s executive...
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...
“This citizen petition highlights the frustration of New Mexicans with DOE’s Environmental Management program. We fully expect the Department of Energy to meaningfully engage with stakeholders in New Mexico communities...
“Currently no options have been able to demonstrate that waste will remain isolated from the environment over the tens to hundreds of thousands of years.” – Nuclear waste expert Andrew...
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...
“Interim in this case effectively means permanent…We have great concern about that public safety component of any private waste moving through the state to a facility” — Sarah Cottrell Propst,...
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...
“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...
The estimated cost of handling the degrading radioactive material is rising steadily — $512 billion at last count. “DoE is now running up against a statutory limit for how much...
“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...
“Germany is to shut down its last nuclear reactors next year. However, the country still has no place to store the 27,000 cubic metres of highly radioactive material it has...
“Diane Turco, of Harwich, the director of Cape Downwinders, a citizen group that was at the forefront of the effort to close Pilgrim, called any option that included sending radioactive water...
Fri. Nov. 12th at 9 am – live (State Capitol, Senate Chambers) and virtual meeting – NM Legislature Interim Radioactive & Hazardous Materials Committee Meeting Presentations include: Environment Department Cleanup Actions;...
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...