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...
Santa Fe, NM – Today the Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), announced that it will not complete a new site-wide environmental impact...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, February 12, 2020 Contact: Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch NM, 505.989.7342, jay[at]nukewatch.org Santa Fe, NM – The Trump Administration has released more budget information for fiscal year...
This article from the Santa Fe New Mexican is based on NNSA’s annual Performance Evaluation Reports (PERs) on contractor performance at its 8 nuclear weapons sites. NukeWatch New Mexico successfully...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will require a federal pollution permit be used to regulate Los Alamos County’s contaminated stormwater, which for years has flowed into streams and the Rio...
January 9, 2020 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the UNM Los Alamos Campus, 4000 University Drive, Building 6, Room 631, Los Alamos, New Mexico. The primary topic of the...
A new assessment finds that Department of Energy (DOE) is not conducting effective oversight of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) beryllium program, or of safety and health programs in...
August 22, 2019 The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Environmental Management Los Alamos (EMLA) field office has repeatedly claimed that “> [i.e., more than] ½ of legacy cleanup has been completed.”1...
The sick people who prevent gun control and support AK47s are the same people who support the building and maintenance of nuclear weapons, which put millions of people at risk...
EMLA has scheduled three more Cleanup Forums — Espanola (Aug. 8), Taos (Aug. 15), and Santa Fe (Aug. 22). All are from 5:30 to 7pm. We hope these next forums...
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“New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) Secretary James Kenney and other members of the department’s staff held a public meeting July 8 to address fears that NMED would move the Los...
Yesterday the New Mexico Environment Department began a series of public outreach meetings. The July 9 meeting will focus on the mission of the state agency’s Energy Department Oversight Bureau,...
“An environmental group said it intends to sue the federal Environmental Protection Agency for failing to determine whether stormwater from Los Alamos County should be regulated by a federal pollution...
Over the last decade funding for the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL’s) nuclear weapons programs has increased 20%. However, funding for needed cleanup has remained flat at one-tenth of the...
The Road to Genuine Los Alamos Lab Cleanup Summary Funding for nuclear weapons is still the priority at the Lab $1.7 trillion 30-year “modernization” program total current estimate across the...
Chemical contamination more than four times the state limit was detected late last month at the edge of a plume in the aquifer roughly 1,000 feet below Los Alamos National...
By Scott Kovac Los Alamos National Laboratory is first and foremost a nuclear weapons laboratory. The Department of Energy’s annual Congressional Budget Request for fiscal year 2020 shows that 71%...
BY MAIRE O’NEILL thelosalamosreporter.com A public hearing being conducted by the New Mexico Environment to consider the ground water discharge permit for Los Alamos National Laboratory headed into its second day...
New Los Alamos lab manager Triad will pay GRT, official says By Andy Stiny | [email protected] Aug 22, 2018 Updated 16 hrs ago A representative of Triad National Security LLC,...
Description and Current Mission The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in north central New Mexico was originally founded during World War II as the secret atomic weapons lab for the...
2019 March 12, 2019 Lawsuit Advances Against Los Alamos National Laboratory Management Potential Penalties Over $272,000,000
Letter on LANL’s detection methodologies by chemist Dr. Michael Ketterer VIEW FULL PAGE MAP
The University of California will continue to manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory alongside two new partners.