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Ex-Westinghouse VP sentenced to jail in $9 billion nuclear heist of SC ratepayers

“In both the SC and GA cases, the state governments helped pave the way for the financial mismanagement of the projects by legislating that state electric ratepayers be responsible to...

Searchlight NM: Plutonium just had a bad day in court

In a major decision whose consequences are still being assessed, a federal judge declared that plutonium pit production — one ingredient in the U.S. government’s $1.5 trillion nuclear weapons expansion...

Court Rules U.S. Nuclear Weapons Production Plan Violates Federal Law

October 3, 2024November 11, 2024DOE, Environmental Impact, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., NEPA, New Mexico, Nuclear Weapons, Pit Production, Pit Production at LANL, Pit Production at SRS, Plutonium Pit Production

On September 30, United States District Court Judge Mary Geiger Lewis ruled that the United States Department of Energy (“DOE”) and its semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency, the National Nuclear Security...

Court Rules U.S. Nuclear Weapons Production Plan Violates Federal Law

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, October 3, 2024 Media Contacts: Ben Cunningham, Esquire, SCELP, 843-527-0078, ben@scelp.org Tom Clements, Savannah River Site Watch, 803-834-3084, tomclements329@cs.com Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, 505-989-7342, jay@nukewatch.org...

The Energy Department just made one plutonium pit. Making more is uncertain

Coinciding with NNSA’s announcement of the first diamond-stamped pit, a US District Court ruled that the Energy Department and the NNSA violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by failing...

Judge finds plutonium production plans violated environmental laws

Both sides of the case are ordered to present a joint plan to address violations by Oct. 25 One of the plaintiffs, Jay Coghlan, the executive director of Nuclear Watch...

‘Significant Victory’: Court Rules Planned Plutonium Pits for New Nukes Violate US Law

“Public scrutiny is especially important because the activities at issue here, by their very nature, result in the production of dangerous weapons and extensive amounts of toxic and radioactive waste,”...

Cracks in the Sin Screen: The Link Between Mormon Tithes and Nuclear Weapons

Read Taylor Barnes’ deep dive into Northrup Grumman, chosen manufacture of the Sentinel ICBM, for which the Los Alamos National Lab and Savannah River Site would make new plutonium pits....

NNSA Delays Urgent Research on Plutonium “Pit” Aging While Spending Tens of Billions on Nuclear Weapons Bomb Core Production

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...

Nuclear Weapons Issues & The Accelerating Arms Race: February 2024

February 15, 2024May 6, 2025FY 2023 Budget, FY 2024 Budget, High-level Radioactive Waste, Holtec, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Modernization, New Mexico, Pit Production, Pit Production at LANL, Pit Production at SRS

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...

NNSA Suppresses How Taxpayers Money Is Spent

January 19, 2024March 8, 2024Budget, DOE, GAO, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., NNSA, Pit Production

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...

NNSA Suppresses How Taxpayers Money Is Spent

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...

U.S. Strategic Posture Commission Ratchets Up Nuclear Arms Race

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...

U.S. Strategic Posture Commission Ratchets Up Nuclear Arms Race

October 12, 2023March 3, 2024Archbishop, Budget, Nuclear Policy, Nuclear Weapons, Russia

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...

National Nuclear Security Administration: New Assessments of Major Projects from the Government Accountability Office

August 17, 2023September 11, 2023GAO, Pit Production at LANL, Pit Production at SRS, Plutonium Pit Production

National Nuclear Security Administration: Assessments of Major Projects GAO-23-104402 Published: Aug 17, 2023. Publicly Released: Aug 17, 2023. The National Nuclear Security Administration plans to invest over $30 billion in its major...

Oppenheimer’s Legacy: South Carolina at the Center of the New Nuclear Arms Race 8/16/23

Learn about the role of the U.S. Department of Energy – and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina particular – in production of plutonium “pits” for new nuclear weapons...

NukeWatch in the Media (2018 & Past)

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...

Sample Surplus Plutonium Disposition Comments – Copy, Paste, Edit & Submit yours!!

*NNSA will accept comments submitted through this weekend (3/19)* Please use our sample comments below and submit your own! The more you can edit and personalize, the better; however, simply...

Biden Releases Record NNSA Nuclear Weapons Budget

March 14, 2023June 10, 2025Biden Administration, Budget, FY 2024 Budget

President Biden has released his proposed FY 2024 budget for the Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The budget for NNSA’s “Total Weapons...

Biden Releases Record NNSA Nuclear Weapons Budget

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, March 14, 2023 Jay Coghlan – 505.989.7342 | Email | Scott Kovac – 505.989.7342 | Email Santa Fe, NM – President Biden has released his proposed FY...

ALLIANCE FOR NUCLEAR ACCOUNTABILITY MEDIA ADVISORY: WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY’S FY 2024 NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND CLEANUP BUDGET REQUEST

Alliance for Nuclear Accountability | March 8, 2023 ananuclear.org The Biden Administration is releasing its Fiscal Year 2024 federal budget on Thursday, March 9. It is expected to be a...

District Court Denies Department of Energy’s Motion to Dismiss Plutonium Pits Suit

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, February 13, 2023 | South Carolina Environmental Law Project, Savannah River Site Watch, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Tri-Valley CAREs, Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition AIKEN, S.C. — In...

PLUTONIUM PIT PRODUCTION BRIEFING

Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch New Mexico January 17, 2023 | Email GAO report: NNSA Does Not Have a Comprehensive Schedule or Cost Estimate for Pit Production Capability, January 12, 2023,...

Independent Government Accountability Office Releases Scathing Report on Expanding Plutonium Pit Production; Pressure Mounts on Los Alamos Lab to Increase Production

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, January 12, 2023 | Jay Coghlan – 505.989.7342 | Email Santa Fe, NM – Today, the independent Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a scathing report entitled NNSA...

Independent Government Accountability Office Releases Scathing Report on Expanding Plutonium Pit Production; Pressure Mounts on Los Alamos Lab to Increase Production

January 12, 2023July 10, 2023GAO, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., MOX, NNSA, Pit Production at LANL, Pit Production at SRS, Plutonium Pit Production, Savannah River Site

Santa Fe, NM – Today, the independent Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a scathing report entitled NNSA Does Not Have a Comprehensive Schedule or Cost Estimate for Pit Production Capability....