New Mexico has enough nuclear waste
We cannot not let the U.S. Department of Energy and the out-of-state nuclear waste generators turn New Mexico into the nuclear waste capital of the United States. BY GEORGE ANASTAS...
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Lindsey Graham joins legal fight to restart SC nuclear fuel plant (MOX)
U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham is urging the nation’s highest court to take up what appears to be South Carolina’s final push to resuscitate a shuttered nuclear facility at the Savannah...
US suspends low-level radioactive waste shipments to Nevada
BY SCOTT SONNER | time.com (RENO, Nev.) — A Nevada congressman called for U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry’s resignation Wednesday after the department acknowledged multiple shipments of low-level radioactive waste...
United States Files False Claims Act Lawsuit in Connection With MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility Contract
Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ― Thursday, February 14, 2019 The Department of Justice announced today that the United States has filed suit against CB&I AREVA MOX...
United States Files False Claims Act Lawsuit in Connection With MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility Contract
Department of Justice Office of Public Affairs FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ― Thursday, February 14, 2019 The Department of Justice announced today that the United States has filed suit against CB&I AREVA MOX...
Nuke Waste Destined to Remain
BY COLIN DEMAREST | thetandd.com Aiken Standard: ‘I’m not confident at all’: U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham casts real doubt on Energy Department GREENVILLE — South Carolina’s senior senator, who often stumps for the...
Permit Changes at WIPP Face Challenges
By Mark Oswald | Journal Staff Writer abqjournal.com | Sunday, January 13th, 2019 at 12:01am U.S. Sen. Tom Udall is encouraging Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s new administration to reconsider a state government...
More Nuclear Waste Coming to New Mexico
Albuquerque Journal By Mark Oswald / Journal Staff Writer Sunday, January 13th, 2019 at 12:01am U.S. Sen. Tom Udall is encouraging Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s new administration to reconsider a...
Permit Changes at WIPP Face Challenges
By Mark Oswald | Journal Staff Writer abqjournal.com | Sunday, January 13th, 2019 at 12:01am U.S. Sen. Tom Udall is encouraging Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s new administration to reconsider a state government...
An inspector monitors radiations around containers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2003 prior to shipping nuclear waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad. New Mexican file photo;...
An inspector monitors radiations around containers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2003 prior to shipping nuclear waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad. New Mexican file photo;...
Self-reported violations at LANL increase three-fold in a year
By Sarah Halasz Graham An 85-gallon drum of radioactive waste leaked into its secondary container. Nearly two dozen waste containers were either mislabeled or not labeled at all. Officials failed...
Savannah River Site
Description and Current Mission The Savannah River Site (SRS) occupies some 300 sq-mi of south-central South Carolina along the Savannah River between the towns of Barnwell and Aiken. The city...
STAND AGAINST THE RUSH TO RE-OPEN AN UNSAFE WIPP
STAND AGAINST THE RUSH TO RE-OPEN AN UNSAFE WIPP The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that it intends to re-open the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in December...
DOE Nuclear Weapons Budget Surpasses Cold War Record
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 17, 2014 DOE Nuclear Weapons Budget Surpasses Cold War Record Bomb with New Military Capabilities up 20% Dismantlements Cut By Nearly Half Nonproliferation Programs Down 21%...
Nuclear Weapons Budget Increased, Nonproliferation and Cleanup Budgets Cut
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 4, 2014 Contact: Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch NM, 505.989.7342, c. 505.692.5854, [email protected] Nuclear Weapons Budget Increased Nonproliferation and Cleanup Budgets Cut Good News: Wasteful Plutonium...
A nuclear legacy in Los Alamos
After three cleanups, independent analysis shows 80-year-old plutonium persists in Acid Canyon and beyond By Alicia Inez Guzmán, Searchlight New Mexico | August 15, 2024 searchlightnm.org The world’s oldest documented plutonium...
Local 12 Investigation tracks down source of Russian radioactive shipments to Ohio
“Around PORTS, plutonium, and plutonium isotopes, which are far more dangerous than uranium, are now being picked up government air monitors. An independent study by Dr. Michael Ketterer at Northern...
Activists Decry Feds’ Plans to Ramp Up Nuclear Work at LANL
The federal government should not turn Los Alamos National Laboratory into a hub for making nuclear bomb cores and instead should spend the money to assist the state with education,...
Iran continues its nuclear work, but is it weapons grade?
In the next few days, the latest quarterly report on Iran’s nuclear program by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is expected to become public. It will make headlines even...
Why SC is likely stuck with a stockpile of the nation’s most dangerous nuclear materials
POST & COURIER SPECIAL REPORT: LETHAL LEGACY BY THAD MOORE & COLIN DEMAREST | postandcourier.com South Carolina could be stuck with a massive stockpile of the nation’s most dangerous nuclear...
Giving the Bomb to Saudi Arabia’s Dr. Strangelove
CARTOON BY MR FISH | truthdig.com Mr. Fish, also known as Dwayne Booth, is a cartoonist who primarily creates for Truthdig and Harpers.com. ARTICLE BY CHRIS HEDGES | truthdig.com Truthdig columnist Chris...
Giving the Bomb to Saudi Arabia’s Dr. Strangelove
CARTOON BY MR FISH | truthdig.com Mr. Fish, also known as Dwayne Booth, is a cartoonist who primarily creates for Truthdig and Harpers.com. ARTICLE BY CHRIS HEDGES | truthdig.com Truthdig columnist Chris...
Detailed NNSA Budget Documents Accelerates Nuclear Weapons Arms Race
Late Friday February 23 the Trump Administration released the detailed FY 2019 budget for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency within the federal Department of...
Regarding NNSA’s Defense Nonproliferation Programs and MOX
I think it would be a big mistake to give unqualified support to restoring funds for NNSA’s Defense Nonproliferation Programs. In my view the best thing that could be done...