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LANL’s “Central Mission”- Presented at: RPI Nuclear Data 2011 Symposium for Criticality Safety and Reactor Applications (PDF) 4/27/11

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Trump’s 2020 Nuclear Weapons Budget Escalates New Arms Race

Sophia Meryn

Santa Fe, NM – Today the Trump Administration released more budget details for the Department of Energy and its semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration’s nuclear weapons programs for fiscal year 2020. This same fiscal year will also mark the 75th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Global Nuclear Weapons Threats Are Rising

In sum, the world is facing the most serious nuclear threats since the first half of the 1980’s. At that time President Ronald Reagan said, “a nuclear war cannot be won and must not be fought” and called for the complete elimination of nuclear weapons.

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NukeWatch Compilation of the DOE/NNSA FY 2020 Budget Request – VIEW

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Comments to the New Mexico Environment Dept. in Support of Comprehensive Cleanup at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and a Request for a Hearing

Nuclear Watch New Mexico November 6, 2023 | Email

New Mexico Environment Department
Hazardous Waste Bureau
2905 Rodeo Park Drive, Building 1
Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87505-6303
By email to [email protected]

SUBJECT: Support for Comprehensive Cleanup at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and a Request for a Hearing

Dear New Mexico Environment Department:
We strongly support the Environment Department’s mandate for comprehensive cleanup at the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Material Disposal Area C, an 11.8-acre dump consisting of seven unlined pits and 108 shafts of radioactive and toxic wastes. This mandate will help maximize protection of human health and the environment and ensure that our critical drinking water resources are permanently protected.

We completely agree that the cleanup remedy for Area C must, in NMED’s own words, “consist of waste excavation, characterization, and appropriate disposal of the buried waste,” plus a soilvapor extraction system to remove the underground plume of volatile organic compounds (which are typically carcinogenic solvents).

Comments on the scope of the Environmental Assessment for Chromium Plume Interim Measure and Final Remedy, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico

Nuclear Watch New Mexico June 6, 2023 |  Email

NEPA Document Manager
U.S. DOE Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office
1200 Trinity Drive, Suite 400
Los Alamos, NM 87544

By email to: [email protected]

Dear Document Managers,

Nuclear Watch New Mexico (NWNM) respectfully submits these comments on the needed scope of the Environmental Assessment for Chromium Plume Interim Measure and Final Remedy, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico (hereinafter “Cr EA”). We would appreciate their serious consideration by the Environmental Management Los Alamos Field Office (EM-LA) and look forward to a comprehensive response.

Our mission statement: Through comprehensive research, public education and effective citizen action, Nuclear Watch New Mexico seeks to promote safety and environmental protection at regional nuclear facilities; mission diversification away from nuclear weapons programs; greater accountability and cleanup in the nation-wide nuclear weapons complex; and consistent U.S. leadership toward a world free of nuclear weapons.

We work on contemporaneous budget, environmental and policy issues concerning nuclear weapons facilities. We have publicly and vocally pressed the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to diversify its missions away from nuclear weapons programs and move more toward critically needed programs, such as nonproliferation efforts, other new national security priorities (for example, port security), and pure science and energy efficiency programs. Through detailed budget analyses, we hope to demonstrate that Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) can move towards comprehensive cleanup of the LANL site and still contribute to the economy of New Mexico.

The U.S. is flirting with the initiation of another nuclear arms race, the first since the end of the Cold War. The Department of Energy’s plan is to rebuild the nuclear weapons complex for continuing nuclear warhead production throughout the 21st century, including new designs. The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires a hard look at all reasonable alternatives to preferred federal proposals.

Comments on the needed scope of the Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for Continued Operation of Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico

Nuclear Watch New Mexico June 5, 2023 |  Email

SNL/NM SWEIS Comments
National Nuclear Security Administration Sandia Field Office
PO Box 5400
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87185

By email to: [email protected]

Nuclear Watch New Mexico (NWNM) respectfully submits these comments on the needed scope of the Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for Continued Operation of Sandia National Laboratories/New Mexico (DOE/EIS-0556) (hereinafter “Sandia SWEIS”). We would appreciate their serious consideration by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and look forward to the agency’s comprehensive response.

Our mission statement: Through comprehensive research, public education and effective citizen action, Nuclear Watch New Mexico seeks to promote safety and environmental protection at regional nuclear facilities; mission diversification away from nuclear weapons programs; greater accountability and cleanup in the nation-wide nuclear weapons complex; and consistent U.S. leadership toward a world free of nuclear weapons.

We work on contemporaneous budget, environmental and policy issues concerning nuclear weapons facilities. We have publicly and vocally pressed the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to diversify its missions away from nuclear weapons programs and move more toward critically needed programs, such as nonproliferation efforts, other new national security priorities (for example, port security), and pure science and energy efficiency programs. Through detailed budget analyses, we hope to demonstrate that Sandia National Laboratory (SNL) can move towards these real national security issues and still contribute to the economy of New Mexico.

Comment on the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Draft Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement

Nuclear Watch New Mexico January 21, 2023 |  Email

Via email to: [email protected]
Ms. Fana Gebeyehu-Houston,
LLNL SWEIS Document Manager,
1000 Independence Ave., SW, Washington, DC 20585

Dear Ms. Fana Gebeyehu-Houston:

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Draft Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS) for the continued operation of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Main Site in Livermore, CA and Site 300 high explosives testing range near Tracy, CA.

Nuclear Watch New Mexico takes particular interest in the Livermore Lab as the sister lab of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). We have long been involved in the issue of plutonium pit production at LANL. We see the two labs as inextricably linked given that LANL will be producing plutonium pits for the new W87-1 warhead, for which LLNL is the lead design agency.

Our mission statement: Nuclear Watch New Mexico seeks to promote safety and environmental protection at nuclear facilities; mission diversification away from nuclear weapons programs; greater accountability and cleanup in the nation-wide nuclear weapons complex; and consistent U.S. leadership toward a world free of nuclear weapons.

NukeWatch DNFSB 2022 Hearing Comments 1-20-23

Nuclear Watch New Mexico January 20, 2023 |  Email

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
625 Indiana Avenue NW, Suite 700
Washington, DC 20004

Via email at <[email protected]>

Re: Comments concerning the November 16, 2022 public hearing regarding legacy cleanup activities, nuclear safety, and increased production activities at the Los Alamos National Laboratory

Dear Safety Board:

Nuclear Watch New Mexico (NukeWatch) appreciates the opportunity to provide follow up written comments for the November 16, 2022 public hearing in Santa Fe, NM. We want to thank the Board for its continuing concern over Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) safety issues and for having a public hearing to begin with. Further, we are grateful for the DNFSB’s perseverance in the face of the Department of Energy’s arguably illegal attempts to restrict its access. We look forward to many more years of the Safety Board’s insights and recommendations on nuclear facilities at DOE and NNSA sites, for which the DNFSB is uniquely positioned. Your service is invaluable and irreplaceable. Thank you!

Our mission statement: Nuclear Watch New Mexico seeks to promote safety and environmental protection at nuclear facilities; mission diversification away from nuclear weapons programs; greater accountability and cleanup in the nation-wide nuclear weapons complex; and consistent U.S. leadership toward a world free of nuclear weapons.

A Guide to ‘Scoping’ The New LANL Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement

“Scoping” means determining the issues that should be included in public analyses required by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of proposed major actions by the federal government. According to the Department of Energy ‘s own NEPA implementation regulations, DOE must prepare a new or supplemental site-wide environmental impact statement (SWEIS) for its major sites when there are “significant new circumstances or information relevant to environmental concerns.” The last site-wide EIS for the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) was completed in 2008 and is badly outdated. Moreover, since 2018 the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), DOE’s semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency, has been aggressively expanding the production of plutonium “pit” bomb cores for nuclear weapons at the Lab.

On August 19, 2022, NNSA finally announced its intent to prepare a new LANL SWEIS, but apparently the agency will not address expanded plutonium pit production.1 NNSA’s dubious argument is that it performed the legally required NEPA analysis for expanded plutonium pit production in a 2008 Complex Transformation Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement, the 2008 LANL SWEIS and a woefully inadequate “Supplement Analysis” in 2020 that concluded a new SWEIS was not needed. 2 3

Issues That Must Be Addressed in a New LANL SWEIS

This is meant to be a guide to (or list of) the issues that must be addressed in a new draft LANL SWEIS. It is not completely exhaustive, nor is it a comprehensive fact sheet on the substance of the issues. Nuclear Watch New Mexico will offer suggested scoping comments for interested citizens and submit its own comprehensive formal comments before the October 3 deadline or extended deadline (see “Timing” below).

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October 18, 2022

Scoping Comments to the National Nuclear Security Administration On the Los Alamos National Laboratory Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement

LANL SWEIS COMMENTS
NNSA Los Alamos Field Office
3747 W. Jemez Road
Los Alamos, NM 87544
Via [email protected]

Dear National Nuclear Security Administration:

Nuclear Watch New Mexico hereby submits these scoping comments on the new Los Alamos
National Laboratory (LANL) Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS).

Executive Summary

First, NNSA should complete a new nation-wide programmatic environmental impact statement on expanded plutonium pit production. A new LANL Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement should then be “tiered” off of that document and address all of these issues outlined in these scoping comments, and in particular the site-specific impacts of expanded plutonium pit production. In the event that NNSA continues its arguably illegal behavior in not completing a new PEIS, a new draft LANL SWEIS should nevertheless analyze the issues outlined in these scoping comments, particularly expanded plutonium pit production.

A Reduced Operations Alternative is not only a reasonable alternative but is in the actual best interests of the nation. Such an alternative would best preserve stockpile reliability by foregoing production of new pits that may deviate from tested designs; conservatively maintain the existing, extensively tested nuclear weapons stockpile; augment and accentuate nonproliferation programs, especially the development of monitoring and verification technologies that could help underpin a future world free of nuclear weapons; and augment and accentuate cleanup programs that are truly comprehensive, permanently eliminating the threat to groundwater.

Read/Download full comments HERE 

Nuclear Watch New Mexico Comments on U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Interim Storage Partners/Waste Control Specialists Consolidated Interim Storage Facility Draft Environmental Impact Statement

RE: Docket ID NRC-2016-0231/Report Number NUREG-2239, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Interim Storage Partners/Waste Control Specialists Consolidated Interim Storage Facility Draft Environmental Impact Statement

Dear U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) Commissioners and Staff,

We respectfully submit these comments in response to the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (Docket ID NRC-2016-0231) regarding Interim Storage Partner's (ISP) application for a license to build and operate a “Consolidated Interim Storage Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel in Andrews County, Texas” (NUREG-2239), which plans to bring at least 40,000 metric tons of spent fuel, high-level radioactive waste, from nuclear reactors around the country to west Texas. Please know that we do not consent to our region becoming a national radioactive high-level waste dumping ground or to transporting up to thousands of canisters of radioactive waste through thousands of communities. We should not have to risk the contamination of our land, aquifers, air, plants, wildlife, and livestock. We do not consent to endangering present and future generations.
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Nuclear Watch New Mexico Scoping Comments on the LLNL SWEIS

Re: Scoping Comments on the LLNL SWEIS

Dear NEPA Document Manager:

I appreciate this opportunity to submit comments on the scope of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS) for the continued operation of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Main Site in Livermore, CA and Site 300 high explosives testing range near Tracy, CA.

Pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act the purpose of scoping is: “early identification of concerns, potential impacts, relevant effects of past actions and possible alternative actions.” Therefore, I ask that the analyses I am requesting be fully undertaken – and my questions fully answered – in the draft SWEIS.

Read/Download full comments HERE 

Nuclear Watch New Mexico Scoping Comments on the Holtec Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS)

RE: Docket ID NRC-2018-0052, Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Public Comment

Dear NRC Commissioners and Staff,
We respectfully submit these scoping comments on the Holtec Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) to bring at least 173,600 metric tons of spent fuel, high-level radioactive waste, from nuclear reactors around the country to southeast New Mexico. Please know that we do not consent to becoming a national radioactive waste dumping ground or to transporting up to 10,000 canisters of highly radioactive waste through thousands of communities. We should not have to risk the contamination of our land, aquifers, air, plants, wildlife, and livestock. We do not consent to endangering present and future generations.

Read/Download full comments HERE 

Comments on a proposed Class 3 modification to the Hazardous Waste Facility Permit for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant - Excavation of a New Shaft and Associated Connecting Drifts, June 2020

Dear Mr. Maestas:
Nuclear Watch NM (NukeWatch) appreciates the opportunity to provide comments on the proposed WIPP Class 3 permit modification - Excavation of a New Shaft and Associated Connecting Drifts. Nuclear Watch New Mexico seeks to promote safety and environmental protection at nuclear facilities; mission diversification away from nuclear weapons programs; greater accountability and cleanup in the nation-wide nuclear weapons complex; and consistent U.S. leadership toward a world free of nuclear weapons.

General Comments

We strongly oppose the “WIPP Forever” plans that a new shaft would afford. Originally billed as a replacement exhaust shaft to help WIPP recover from the 2014 exploding drum event that shut down WIPP for three years, a proposed new shaft is now designed to increase WIPP’s capacity without full public disclosure. Federal laws, agreements with the State of New Mexico, and the WIPP Permit all provide that WIPP has a limited mission for up to 175,564 cubic meters of transuranic (TRU) waste and to operate for a limited lifetime. Other repositories and improved on-site storage must be developed for other wastes and newly generated TRU waste. These operations do not need a new shaft in order to be completed.

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Comments under the National Environmental Policy Act
on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Plutonium Pit Production at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina

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 River Site in South Carolina2 (hereinafter “DEIS”). Through comprehensive research, public education, and effective citizen action, Nuclear Watch New Mexico seeks to promote safety and environmental protection at defense nuclear facilities; mission diversification away from nuclear weapons programs; greater accountability and cleanup in the nation-wide nuclear weapons complex; and consistent U.S. leadership toward a world free of nuclear weapons.

These comments incorporate by reference the comments submitted by Nuclear Watch and others regarding NNSA’s Supplement Analysis of its 2008 Complex Transformation Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement.3 We believe they are relevant to connected issues which the agency seeks to segment contrary to statutory requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act.

Read/Download full comments HERE 

Comments from NRDC, OREPA, and NWNM On Draft 2020 SA

RE: Comments on the April 2020 Draft Supplement Analysis For the Final Site- Wide Environmental Impact Statement For the Y-12 National Security Complex, Earthquake Accident Analysis, DOE/EIS-0387-SA-04

On behalf of the Natural Resources Defense Council, Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (“OREPA”) and Nuclear Watch New Mexico, we are submitting these comments on the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (“NNSA”) April 2020 Supplement Analysis for the Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Y-12 National Security Complex (“2020 SA”).
Although we are taking this opportunity to comment on the 2020 SA, we must stress at the outset that the 2020 SA is not a lawful substitute for the new or supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (“EIS”) that is plainly required under these circumstances by the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”). Our clients have called for a new or supplemental EIS for at least six years, but NNSA has done everything in its power to avoid preparing one. The 2020 SA—deficient as it is, as described below—again makes clear that a new or supplemental site-wide EIS is the only lawful and logical way for NNSA to proceed.

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David Jackson — Discussion of Seismic Risks at the Y-12 National Security Complex and Formal Comments to NNSA Regarding April 2020 Draft Supplemental Analysis for the Site

Dear Mr. Hutchison
You have asked me to review the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (“NNSA”) discussion of seismic risks at the Y-12 National Security Complex, particularly in association with NNSA’s 2020 issuance of a Draft Supplement Analysis for the Site- Wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Y-12 National Security Complex (DOE/EIS- 0387-SA-02) (“2018 SA”). I have reviewed the 2018 SA, as well as related documents including NNSA’s prior Supplement Analysis from 2016, NNSA’s 2011 Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement, the data and models represented in the 2008 and 2014 United States Geological Survey’s (“USGS”) seismic hazard maps, Judge Reeve’s Memorandum Opinion and Order, the NNSA 2020 Draft Supplement Analysis, as well as more recent seismic hazard maps and underlying data from the USGS. In my professional opinion, NNSA has conducted no rigorous seismic hazard evaluation associated with its activities at the Y-12 National Security Complex. A more thorough consideration of seismic risks is essential in light of the hazardous and nationally important work done at this Complex.
I am a geophysicist with extensive experience considering seismic issues, in particular with regard to probabilistic seismic hazard analysis, statistical data analysis, earthquake forecasting and prediction, and the consideration of likely damage from earthquakes.

Read/Download full comments HERE 

COLLECTIVE COMMENTS: on the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA’s) Draft Supplement Analysis of the 2008 Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Continued Operation of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for Plutonium Operations

Dear LANL SWEIS SA Document Manager,

We respectfully submit these comments for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA’s) Draft Supplement Analysis of the 2008 Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Continued Operation of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for Plutonium Operations (DOE/EIS-0380-SA-06, March 2020). That draft Supplement Analysis has “preliminarily” concluded that NNSA will NOT prepare a new LANL site-wide environmental impact statement, which is the wrong decision.

However, even before a new site-wide environmental impact statement (EIS) for Los Alamos Lab, we believe that NNSA is legally required to first complete a new programmatic environmental impact statement (PEIS) on its nation-wide plans for expanded plutonium pit production. This is necessary to 1) raise the production cap of 20 pits per year explicitly set by the 1997 Stockpile Stewardship and Management PEIS; and 2) because NNSA now proposes a second site, the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina, for redundant pit production, which is inherently a “programmatic” decision. NNSA argues that it can rely upon an outdated 2008 Complex Transformation PEIS which considered various levels of expanded plutonium pit production at five specific NNSA candidate sites. However, that outdated document did not consider simultaneous production at two sites. This changed circumstance is justifiable cause alone for a new programmatic environmental impact statement.

Read/Download full collective comments HERE 

NukeWatch NM: comments for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA’s) Draft Supplement Analysis of the 2008 Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Continued Operation of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for Plutonium Operations

Dear LANL SWEIS SA Document Manager,

We respectfully submit these comments for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA’s) Draft Supplement Analysis of the 2008 Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Continued Operation of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) for Plutonium Operations

Through comprehensive research, education, and effective citizen action, Nuclear Watch New Mexico seeks to promote safety and environmental protection at regional nuclear facilities; mission diversification away from nuclear weapons programs; greater accountability and cleanup in the nation-wide nuclear weapons complex; and consistent U.S. leadership toward a world free of nuclear weapons.

These comments also incorporate by reference the attached comments submitted by Nuclear Watch and others regarding both the Complex Transformation PEIS Supplement Analysis and the proposed environmental impact statement for the repurposing of the MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility at the Savannah River Site. We believe both are relevant and directly connected issues which NNSA seeks to segment contrary to statutory requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act.

Read/Download full comments HERE 

NukeWatch NM: Comments on NNSA’s Draft Supplement Analysis of the 2008 Complex Transformation PEIS that seeks to raise plutonium pit production from 20 pits per year to more than 80.

Dear NEPA Document Manager:

Nuclear Watch New Mexico is pleased to submit our comments on NNSA’s Draft Supplement Analysis of the 2008 Complex Transformation PEIS. Due to the highly related nature of the proposed actions for expanded plutonium pit production at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and Savannah River Site, these comments also incorporate by reference the attached comments submitted by Nuclear Watch and others regarding both this draft Supplement Analysis and the proposed environmental impact statement for the repurposing of the MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility.

Read/Download the full document HERE 

NukeWatch NM: Scoping comments for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA’s) draft environmental impact statement for plutonium pit production at the Savannah River Site

Dear SRS EIS NEPA Document Manager,
Nuclear Watch New Mexico is pleased to submit these scoping comments on the National
Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA’s) draft environmental impact statement for plutonium
pit production at the Savannah River Site.

The Need for a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement

This is our first and primary concern, that NNSA must first complete a programmatic
environmental impact statement (PEIS) on its nation-wide plans for plutonium pit production, in
advance of the Savannah River Site-specific environmental impact statement. To get right to the
point, we argue that the SRS EIS process should go no further than this scoping period and
should resume only after a completed formal Record of Decision for a new or supplemental
PEIS

Read/Download the full document HERE 

New Mexico Environment Department Response to Public Comments on the February 22, 2018 WIPP Draft Permit

On November 10, 2016, the Department of Energy (“DOE”) and Nuclear Waste Partnership (“NWP”) (together referred to as the “Permittees”) submitted a revised Class 3 Permit Modification Request to the New Mexico Environment Department (“NMED”) requesting to modify the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) Hazardous Waste Facility Permit (“Permit”) for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (“WIPP” or “Facility”). Specifically, the revised Class 3 Permit Modification requested to make changes to the WIPP Panel Closure Plan. NMED published a public notice on February 22, 2018, starting a 60-day public comment period which ended on April 23, 2018. NMED took final agency action on September 7, 2018. This document is the NMED response to public comments received on this draft Permit, as required by 20.4.1.901.A(9) NMAC.

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4/25/2018

NukeWatch's Comments Filed on NNSA Proposal to Raise Plutonium Limit Ten-Fold in Los Alamos' Rad Lab

See NukeWatch's critique of these plans - our official 'public comments' as submitted
Addendum to NukeWatch comments

Read/Download the full document HERE 

Nuclear Watch Comments on the Consent Order to Ryan Flynn, New Mexico Environment Department

Nuclear Watch Comments on the Consent Order to Kathryn Roberts, New Mexico Environment Department

Nuclear Watch Comments for DOE's Long-Term Management and Storage of Elemental Mercury Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS)
 

Nuclear Watch Comments on Draft Surplus Plutonium Disposition Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement - October 14, 2012

LANL Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement  -April 22, 2011

Nuclear Watch Scoping Comments for CMRR Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) - November 16, 2010

Nuclear Watch Additional Comments on the LANL FSWEIS  - June 11, 2008

NukeWatch Comments to NNSA on the Complex Transformation SPEIS - April 30, 2008

Nuclear Watch comments on the draft LANL Hazardous Waste Permit - February 1, 2008 [submitted to state authorities]

Nuclear Watch New Mexico's additional comments on the Kansas City Plant EA - January 31, 2008

Nuclear Watch New Mexico's comprehensive comments on the Kansas City Plant EA - January 14, 2008

Read NukeWatch's Comments on Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board "Government in the Sunshine Act" - January 4, 2008

Nuclear Watch New Mexico's scoping comments on the GTCC EIS - September 21, 2007

Nuclear Watch Comments on the scope of the GNEP Programmatic EIS - June 4, 2007

Nuclear Watch Comments on the Kansas City Plant EA - May 30, 2007

Nuclear Watch Comments on Livermore Biolab Draft Revised EA - May 11, 2007

Nuclear Watch Comments on the Divine Strake EA - February 7, 2007

Nuclear Watch Scoping Comments for Complex 2030 SPEIS - January 17, 2007

Nuclear Watch Comments on LANL SWEIS - September 26, 2006

Nuclear Watch Scoping Comments for EIS for Operation of a BioSafety Level-3 Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory - January 17, 2006

Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Consolidation of Nuclear Operations Related to the Production of Radioisotope Power Systems - August 29, 2004

Nuclear Watch Comments on Changes to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) - August 1, 2005

Comments to the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board on its Recommendation 2005-1, "Nuclear Material Packaging" - April 20, 2005

Scoping Comments on the Proposed Los Alamos National Laboratory Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement - February 28, 2005

Scoping Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for Consolidation of Radioisotope Power Systems - January 31, 2005

Comments on the Los Alamos National Laboratory Management and Operations Contract draft Request For Proposal - January 21, 2005

Nuclear Watch of New Mexico comments on the draft Order on Consent between the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED), Department of Energy (DOE) and University of California (UC) - October 2004

Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Proposed Consolidation of Nuclear Operations Related to the Production of Radioisotope Power Systems [224k] -August 29, 2004

Comments on the Draft Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Consolidation of Certain Dynamic Experimentation Activities at the Two-Mile Complex [34k] September 18, 2003

Scoping Comments to the Defense Threat Reduction Agency on the Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement For DTRA Activities at the White Sands Missile Range [16k] September 15, 2003

Comments on the Environmental Impact Statement For the Proposed Chemical and Metallurgical Research Building Replacement Project [47k] July 1, 2003

Scoping Comments on the Modern Pit Facility Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement. [41k] November 26, 2002

Comments on Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Draft Environmental Assessment for the proposed Biological Safety Level 3 Laboratory [46k] September 7, 2002

Scoping Comments on the Environmental Impact Statement For the Proposed Chemical and Metallurgical Research Building Replacement Project [33k] August 31, 2002

Comments on the Proposed Disposition of the Omega West Facility [27k] May 25, 2002

Comments on the proposed Biological Safety Level 3 Laboratory's Draft Environmental Assessment [60k] November 26, 2001

Comments on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Proposed Relocation of Technical Area 18 [43k] October 18, 2001

Scoping Comments to the DOE for the Environmental Assessment on LANL's Proposed Biological Safety Level 3 Laboratory July 10, 2001

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