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NM Environment Secretary James C. Kenney Takes Aim At Department Of Energy LANL Legacy Waste Cleanup Program During Trinity Commemoration Event In Santa Fe

‘This is not about feelings. When are we talking about feelings; this is about money. If you show me the numbers for legacy waste cleanup at Los Alamos moved to...

Testing the waters: Feds stop paying to sample LANL runoff

Buckman Direct Diversion picks up the cost for testing the Rio Grande The federal government has also deferred its remediation of a dump site called Material Disposal Area C, citing...

LANL Plans to Spend $11.5B on Pit Production over Next Five Years, While New Mexico Remains One of the Poorest States in the Nation

April 6, 2026April 7, 2026Budget, DOE, Environmental Impact, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., New Mexico, NNSA, Nuclear Testing, Nuclear Weapons, Pit Production, Pit Production at LANL, Trump Administration

A full one billion dollars is being added to plutonium “pit” bomb core production at the Los Alamos Lab for fiscal year 2027 (which begins this October 1). This tops...

Feds Give LANL “Very Good” in Accelerating Nuclear Arms Race; “Pit” Bomb Core Production Scheduled Through 2050 — Public Review of NNSA Programs Is Being Gutted

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, March 6, 2026 Contact: Jay Coghlan, 505.989.7342, c. 505.470.3154 | Email Sophie Stroud, 505.231.9736 | Email “Rationality will not save us… this is very important: at the...

Plan on LANL’s path for next 15 years expected ‘any day now’

“When the draft was announced last year, some LANL critics decried that even the ‘no action alternative’ would still mean expansion for the lab. Jay Coghlan, executive director of Nuclear...

New Mexico Environment Department takes sweeping action over LANL waste

Takeaways: – The Environment Department issued three compliance orders against the Department of Energy regarding hazardous and legacy wastes at Los Alamos National Laboratory. – The department also is seeking...

New Mexico, Department of Energy at odds over cleanup halt at LANL waste site

In a December public meeting, the field office’s manager indicated approval from the Environment Department likely wasn’t needed to defer the study and cleanup of Area C. According to the...

Federal official says further testing needed to determine LANL’s chromium plume migration

“Asked about the difference in opinion between the federal and state agency regarding the sampling, Kunkle said, ‘I can’t answer why we have the disconnect,’ adding that the only sampling...

Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) Town Hall December 3rd, 2025 – Thoughts from Nuclear Watch New Mexico:

December 5, 2025December 10, 2025Budget, DOE, Environmental Impact, LANL Chromium Plume, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Modernization, New Mexico, Nuclear Weapons, Pit Production at LANL, Plutonium Pit Production, Tritium

The LANL Director mentioned Non-proliferation is a big part of their work. However, the Nuclear Nonproliferation program budget is a mere 6.5% of the total Lab budget (Nuclear Weapons is...

LANL chromium plume spreads onto San Ildefonso Pueblo land, NMED says

Nuclear Watch New Mexico executive direcor Jay Coghlan sees PF-4 as being a bigger scale — and having bigger risks — than the other aging buildings. “PF-4 is not unique...

LANL Prioritizes Plutonium “Pit” Bomb Core Production Over Safety

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, November 6, 2025 Contact: Jay Coghlan, 505.989.7342, c. 505.470.3154 | Email Contact: Scott Kovac, 505.316.4148 | Email Santa Fe, NM – The independent Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety...

LANL Prioritizes Plutonium “Pit” Bomb Core Production Over Safety

November 6, 2025January 8, 2026Nuclear Weapons

The independent Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board recently released its Review of the Los Alamos Plutonium Facility Documented Safety Analysis. It concluded that: “While LANL facility personnel continue to make...

LANL tritium containers to head to Texas after last treatment

Four flanged tritium waste containers have been depressurized and transported to Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Weapons Engineering Tritium Facility, where they will be treated further before heading out-of-state for disposal....

COMMUNITIES FOR CLEAN WATER: LANL Radioactive Tritium Venting Fails to Provide Transparency, Assurance, and Respect for Local Communities

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 18, 2025 Santa Fe, NM — As NNSA and LANL continue operations to depressurize Flanged Tritium Waste Containers, Communities for Clean Water (CCW) calls out federal...

First of four containers of tritium waste at LANL has been vented

The first of four flanged tritium waste containers awaiting removal from Los Alamos National Laboratory has been vented, the New Mexico Environment Department announced Tuesday afternoon. By Alaina Mencinger amencinger@sfnewmexican.com |...

DOE and LANL Silence Public and Tribal Community Member Voices While Pushing Radioactive Tritium Venting

For Immediate Release: August 22, 2025 Contact: Kalyn Mae Finnell, Coordinator, Communities for Clean Water Los Alamos, NM — This week’s so-called “public meeting” regarding Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) proposal to vent...

LANL Expands Nuclear Bomb Production, Rejects Cleanup, Still Plans to Release Tritium

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, August 3, 2025 Contact: Scott Kovac – 505.316.4148 | Email Santa Fe, NM – Eighty years after the first radioactive waste was buried at the Los Alamos National...

Victory! Proposed Tritium Venting by LANL Halted for Now Due to Community Pressure

June 16, 2025June 16, 2025DOE, Environmental Impact, LANL Cleanup, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., NMED, Tritium

Proposed Tritium Venting by Los Alamos National Lab Postponed Indefinitely after Community Pressure THANK YOU to the over 2,500 of you who signed our Petition to Deny LANL’s Request to...

Sign the Petition to Deny LANL’s Request to Release Radioactive Tritium into the Air to Governor Lujan Grisham and New Mexico Environment Department

Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) plans to begin large releases of radioactive tritium gas any time after June 2, 2025. The only roadblock is that LANL needs a “Temporary Authorization”...

Organization Links to Resources on LANL Tritium Release:

CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY – nuclearactive.org COMMUNITIES FOR CLEAN WATER – ccwnewmexico.org/general-2 NUCLEAR WATCH NEW MEXICO – nukewatch.org FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN – fireonthemountain.xyz Related Reports: Arjun Makhijani: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6418a35a30fed803c21f2bb1/t/67f56186a8839051f6ccd219/1744134535700/Rainfall+implications+of+Los+Alamos+tritium+venting+proposal+-+interpretation+of+modeling+results+Arjun+Makhijani+final+2024-03-28.pdf...

Find Out the Facts & Sign the Petition: Why NMED Should Deny LANL’s Request for Tritium Releases

April 25, 2025June 3, 2025DOE, Environmental Impact, LANL Cleanup, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., New Mexico, NMED, Tritium

Why NMED Should Deny LANL’s Request for Tritium Releases The Los Alamos National Laboratory plans to begin large releases of radioactive tritium gas any time after June 2, 2025. The...

Why NMED Should Deny LANL’s Request for Tritium Releases

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LANL Site-Wide EIS Hearings in Santa Fe and Los Alamos Filled with Loud Protest and Vehement Dissent: Nuclear Weapons are IMMORAL

February 15, 2025March 7, 2025Nuclear Weapons

In this Site-Wide EIS we’re given three options: Expanded nuclear weapons programs (hypocritically called the no action alternative), then we’re presented with yet more expanded nuclear weapons programs, and the...

Gearing Up for the Public Hearings on the LANL Draft Sitewide Environmental Impact Statement: Pit Production at LANL

“Nuclear Watch New Mexico hosted a workshop on February 6 on the newly released Draft Sitewide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS) for Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to present information and elicit...

Comment on the Draft Los Alamos National Laboratory Site Wide Environmental Impact Statement (Draft LANL SWEIS)

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