The 3488-page Conference Report is at: https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20191209/CRPT-116hrpt333.pdf The 741-page Joint Explanatory Statement is at: https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20191209/116hrpt333-JointExplanatoryStatement.pdf The 19-page bill summary is at: https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrats.rules.house.gov/files/CRPT-116hrpt333-summary.pdf On Plutonium Pit Production: Nuclear Forces have been...
SRS Watch and Nuclear Watch New Mexico have been working hard together on pit production issues. SRS Watch and NukeWatch NM, alongside other groups in ANA, have requested that the...
Barrels filled with transuranic waste fail inspection, remain at lab’s Plutonium Facility BY TRIS DEROMA | lamonitor.com DNSFB reports: https://www.dnfsb.gov/sites/default/files/document/18696/Los%20Alamos%20Week%20Ending%20July%2026%202019.pdf Nine containers full of transuranic waste are stuck at the...
19 seconds – the amount of time airborne radiological contamination could be released before the safety dampers close. This assumes that all other components work perfectly. A recent report from the Defense...
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) held a public hearing on June 20th at its Washington, DC Headquarters. The DNFSB’s goals for the hearing were (1) to discuss Department...
There should be no expanded pit production until nuclear safety is fully assured by an independent, unrestricted Safety Board, and our congressional delegation should be the first to demand that.
Chronological – 2013 to Date 2018 November 16, 2018 Fact Sheet Expanded Plutonium Pit Production for U.S. Nuclear Weapons Plutonium pits are the radioactive cores or “triggers” of nuclear weapons. Their...
NMED And EM-LA Present FY2019 Legacy Cleanup Priorities In Community Meeting Los Alamos Reporter, Dec 1, 2018, By Marie O’Neill Under public comment, Jay Coghlan, director of Nuclear Watch New...
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BY MARK OSWALD / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER| abqjournal.com Copyright © 2019 Albuquerque Journal SANTA FE – At the end of a hourslong meeting in Albuquerque on Thursday night, officials from U.S. Department of...
BY REBECCA MOSS | santafenewmexican.com Members of the public and a federal nuclear safety board voiced concerns this week that a U.S. Department of Energy order implemented in May excludes some facilities from...
The Department of Energy’s Order 140.1 Interface with the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board is misguided and likely illegal because it acts contrary to the Board’s 1988 enabling legislation. View...
On January 29, 2019, DOE’s Office of Enterprise Assessments notified Nuclear Waste Partnership, LLC (NWP), the managing and operating contractor for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plan (WIPP), of its intent to investigate heat stress-related...
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) was established as an independent agency on September 29, 1988, by the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. The Board is composed of five...
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability immediate release: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 Watchdog groups call for Congress to protect nuclear weapons communities—stop DOE limitations on Safety Board Watchdog groups from across the...
DOE MUST RESTORE DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY BOARD ACCESS TO INFORMATION, NUCLEAR SECURITY FACILITIES, AND PERSONNEL DOWNLOAD PDF What’s Happened On May 14, 2018, the Department of Energy (DOE) Deputy...
November 27, 2018 RE: DOE Order 140.1 should be annulled by Congress Dear House/Senate Armed Services Committee Members: We are writing to ask that you annul the May 2018 DOE...
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...
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability CONTACTS: Kathy Crandall Robinson (Washington, DC): 202 577 9875 Joni Arends (New Mexico): 505 986 1973 Tom Carpenter (Washington state): 206 419 5829 Tom Clements...
DOE MUST RESTORE DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY BOARD ACCESS TO INFORMATION, NUCLEAR SECURITY FACILITIES, AND PERSONNEL On May 14, 2018, the Department of Energy (DOE) Deputy Secretary approved DOE Order...
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...
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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...
2020 March 10, 2020 Press Release Energy Dept. Nearly Triples Funding for Plutonium Pit Production Cuts Cleanup in Half But Refuses to Complete New Env. Impact Statement for Los Alamos...