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SC settles lawsuit over plutonium waste for record $600M
“According to a release, under the terms of the settlement, the Dept. of Energy remains obligated to remove the plutonium by 2037.” BY: Alexx Altman-Devilbiss | wpde.com COLUMBIA, S.C (WPDE) —...
Nuclear War Makes a Comeback
It’s time to revisit the old fear that kept your parents up at night BY CAROL POLSGROVE / sierraclub.org On websites where policymakers, scholars, and military leaders gather, concern about the...
Public Interest Group Requests DOE Prepare “Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement” on Plutonium Disposition, in Support of Recommendation by National Academies of Sciences Pane
Plutonium Disposition via “Dilute & Dispose” to Bring at Least 22.5 Metric Tons More of Plutonium to Savannah River Site, On Top of 11.5 MT of Pu Already at SRS,...
Nuclear Power goes South in South Carolina
“It looks like crime might well pay after all.” That was the weary and only slightly tongue-in-cheek conclusion drawn by longtime anti-nuclear campaigner, Tom Clements recently, after a former South...
Actual & virtual nuclear disarmament events in Georgia
HIROSHIMA OBSERVANCE Thursday, August 6, 2020 10AM-1PM LEST WE FORGET Vigil at the Gates of Kings Bay Trident Nuclear Submarine Base St. Marys, GA Thursday, August 6, 2020 7-8:40PM...
Inhofe, Reed Praise Senate Passage of National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
The United States Senate today passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, 86-14. Thursday, July 23, 2020 PRESS RELEASE: https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/press-releases/inhofe-reed-praise-senate-passage-of-national-defense-authorization-act-of-fiscal-year-2021 Full text of Bill: https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s4049/BILLS-116s4049rs.pdf Report to...
Secretive Sale of Surplus MOX Equipment by NNSA Perpetuates Cover-Up of Bungled MOX Project, Exposes Lack of Accountability to Taxpayers for Money Wasted on Construction and Equipment
MOX Project Wasted Vast Sums of Money on Stockpiling Huge Amounts of Equipment that Project Managers Knew would be Obsolete when the Project Began Operation – Investigations Needed Columbia, SC...
Why a decision on a second US plutonium-pit-production factory should be delayed
Highlights: The decision on the second pit production facility can wait. NNSA could announce its decision to move forward on building a pit-production facility in South Carolina as early as...
FORMAL COMMENTS ON PLUTONIUM PIT PRODUCTION AT LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY
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...
FORMAL COMMENTS ON PLUTONIUM PIT PRODUCTION AT SAVANNAH RIVER SITE
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...
Dear SRS EIS NEPA Document Manager, We respectfully submit these comments1 for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA’s) DOE/EIS-0541 Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Plutonium Pit Production at the Savannah...
Comments NOW DUE June 2nd: Plutonium Pit Production at Savannah River Site
NNSA Extends by 15 Days Comment Period on Draft EIS on Proposed Savannah River Site Plutonium Bomb Plant — Extended from May 18 to About June 2 The DOE National...
DOE Repeatedly Asks Safety Board for Time Extensions, Los Alamos Lab Asked for >150 Cleanup Milestone Extensions, But During Pandemic NNSA Rejects NM Senators’ Request for Extension of Public Comment on Plutonium Bomb Core Production
Lisa Gordon-Hagerty, head of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), has rejected a request by New Mexico Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich to extend the public comment period on...
NNSA lengthens comment period for Savannah River pit production environmental study
BY: COLIN DEMAREST | aikenstandard.com The National Nuclear Security Administration has extended the period in which it is taking comments and input on its draft review of the environmental impacts...
Letter With >120 Group & Individual Sign-Ons Asks Udall and Heinrich to Extend Public Comment Period on Los Alamos Lab Plutonium Bomb Core Production
Today, on behalf of more than 120 groups and individuals, Nuclear Watch New Mexico sent a letter to New Mexico Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich. It asks them to...
Due To COVID-19, NNSA Adds 15 Days To Public Comment Period On Plutonium Pit Production At Los Alamos
In response to requests for additional time based on disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) has extended by 15 days the...
New study says LANL nuclear pit production could go higher
Jay Coghlan, executive director of Nuclear Watch New Mexico, said he doubted the lab has the “expertise and competence” to produce 80 plutonium pits, “but they’re going to eat up...
Groups Request DOE Publish “Notice” of Release of Plutonium Bomb Document in Federal Register
“Request to Publish Notice of Draft Supplement Analysis in the Federal Register, DOE/EIS-0380-SA-06: Draft Supplement Analysis” Public interest groups working for US DOE to fully comply with the National Environmental...
LANL Budget Increased by Nearly $1 Billion to Accelerate Work As Production Site for Nuclear Weapons Designs by Livermore Lab Cleanup Cut by 46%
Santa Fe, NM – The Trump Administration has released more budget details for its proposed Fiscal Year 2021 federal budget for the Department of Energy and its semi-autonomous nuclear weapons...
BOOM Goes the Budget as DOE Plans for Nuclear War: $4.6 Billion Target for Unjustified Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at $R$
DOE Plans for $4.6 Billion Cost to Convert the Ill-Constructed MOX Plant into a Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at Savannah River Site by 2026-2030; Money to be Spent on Top...
Requested NNSA FY 2021 Funding for “Primary Capability Modernization”
(i.e. plutonium pits) Bottom line: The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has requested $1.58 billion for expanded plutonium pit production in FY 2021 alone, when at least 15,000 pits are...
Inside America’s newly revealed nuclear ballistic missile warhead of the future
“NNSA already has too much work on its plate to sustain. Accelerating development of yet another excessively ambitious program will only make that problem worse,” – Kingston Reif of the...
Media Advisory: What to Look For in the U.S. Department of Energy’s FY2021 Nuclear Weapons and Cleanup Budget Request
According to media reports, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the semiautonomous nuclear weapons agency within the Department of Energy (DOE), has persuaded President Trump to increase its weapons budget by more...
DOE’s Nuclear Agency Moving to Manufacture New Plutonium Bomb Cores in Violation of Environmental Law and Court Order
Natural Resources Defense Council, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, SRS Watch, Tri-Valley CAREs Assert “Pit” Pursuit Violates National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) EINPresswire.com COLUMBIA, SC, USA, January 9, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ —...