A September 11th Catastrophe You’ve Probably Never Heard About
In 1957, America narrowly averted a nuclear meltdown at the Rocky Flats plant in Colorado. A new book explores how close we all came to disaster. ANDREW COHEN | theatlantic.com...
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New Mexico Senators Speak Out Over Order They Say Would Hamper Nuclear Safety Board
New Mexico Senators Speak Out Over Order They Say Would Hamper Nuclear Safety Board They want Congress to suspend a move that would limit access to information about facilities and...
The West’s atomic past, in opera halls
The West’s atomic past, in opera halls On stage and in Congress, Trinity test downwinders fight for recognition. Elena Saavedra Buckley, High Country News, Aug. 30, 2018 Outside the Santa Fe...
Trump Administration Muzzles Nuclear Weapons Safety Watchdog
Trump Administration Muzzles Nuclear Weapons Safety Watchdog The administration, working in open alliance with profit-making contractors, is scaling back the safety group’s authority and slashing its staff. Center For Public...
A Salute to Whistleblowers – Mark your calendar! Sept. 25 at 7pm at CCA
A Salute to Whistleblowers Now Rescheduled Bigger, Better, Later in the Month Mark your calendar! Sept. 25 at 7pm at CCA Ever wonder what the news media are NOT telling...
A Salute to Whistleblowers – Mark your calendar! Sept. 25 at 7pm at CCA
A Salute to Whistleblowers Now Rescheduled Bigger, Better, Later in the Month Mark your calendar! Sept. 25 at 7pm at CCA Ever wonder what the news media are NOT telling...
State could block proposed nuclear storage site near Carlsbad
State could block nuclear storage site near Carlsbad even if federally licensed By Adrian C. Hedden / Carlsbad Current-Argus, N.M. (TNS) Published: Thursday, August 16th, 2018 at 7:24am Updated: Saturday,...
Katzman Tells Utilities Board RDX Never Detected In County Water Supply Wells
Danny Katzman gave his punchline first Tuesday evening at the Nov. 20 Los Alamos County Board of Public Utilities meeting where he gave a presentation on Royal Demolition Explosive (RDX)...
Heather Wilson
The Revolving Door Wilson's revolving door career and links with corrupt practices are a caricature of the Congressional-Lobbyist-Contractor-Regulator nexus that she has played so well and for so long. Candidate...
Jay Coghlan
Jay Coghlan, Executive Director of Nuclear Watch New Mexico, commenting on the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement (CMRR) Nuclear Facility in the plutonium...
Scott Kovac
Scott Kovac, Operations and Research Director, Nuclear Watch New Mexico debunking the argument that the economic impact of the proposed new nuclear facility at Los Alamos is an efficient use...
Nuclear Watch New Mexico and New Mexico Environmental Law Center Lawsuit Resources
Amended Complaint Second Amended Complaint as filed Sept 21 Lawsuit Complaint Notice of Intent Motions to Dismiss All documents electronically filed with the court on August 31, 2016 NUCLEAR WATCH...
NEPA and Other Formal Comments
NUKEWATCH WORK PRODUCT NUKEWATCH MEDIA Atomic Histories & Nuclear Testing VIEW OUR RICH ARCHIVE OF NUCLEAR NEWS ARTICLES HERE LANL's Central Mission: Los Alamos Lab officials have recently claimed that LANL has...
Clean Up Area G: Hundreds of Jobs Could Be Created that Protect the Environment
Summary New Mexicans should push their politicians to vigorously lobby for comprehensive cleanup at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Unlike nuclear weapons programs, cleanup would be a win-win that...
Federal District Court Allows Lawsuit to Proceed Against DOE/LANS Potential Penalties Exceed $300,000,000
For Immediate Release New Mexico Environmental Law Center Nuclear Watch New Mexico – Santa Fe, NM A United States District Court judge has ruled that a lawsuit filed by Nuclear...
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More information on map items: Navajo Nation: A Tour of Abandoned Uranium Mines in Navajo Country and Beyond Cleaning Up Abandoned Uranium Mines Abandoned Uranium Mines Cleanup Gets $600 Million...
WIPP
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) On This Page: Current Events / Issues / Facility Description July 11, 2017. SRS Watch reports: U.S. DOE Documents Obtained via FOIA Request Confirm "Mission Need" to Expand "Dilute and...
Sandia Labs
Description and Current Mission There are three major nuclear weapons laboratories in the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA's) nuclear weapons complex, Los Alamos (LANL), Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia National Laboratories...
Lawrence Livermore Lab
Description and Current Mission The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is one of two laboratories that have designed every nuclear weapon in the U.S. arsenal. It was founded in 1952,...
Kansas City Plant
Description and Current Mission The Kansas City Plant (KCP) has most of its operations in Missouri, with satellite facilities in Arkansas and New Mexico. The main facility is located on...
Nuclear Testing Since 1945
The first nuclear weapon test was carried out by the United States at the Trinity site on July 16, 1945, with a yield approximately equivalent to 20 kilotons. The first...
Kirtland Air Force Base Nuclear Weapons Complex
"Ever since Gen. (Leslie) Groves established the Z Division here in September 1945, Albuquerque and Kirtland have been at the very heart and soul of America's nuclear weapon and nuclear...
Acronyms
A Glossary of Commonly Used Nuclear-related Acronyms ABM Treaty 1972. Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. One of the first treaties of the Cold War, limiting both the US and the USSR to...
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