The New Yorker: New Mexico’s Nuclear Weapons Boom
On a recent Wednesday, ten students filed into a classroom at Northern New Mexico College, in the town of Española, to learn about the dangers of nuclear radiation. The students...
On a recent Wednesday, ten students filed into a classroom at Northern New Mexico College, in the town of Española, to learn about the dangers of nuclear radiation. The students...
Dear Friends, As we look back on 2024, Nuclear Watch New Mexico hopes you had a wonderful year. We wish you peace and prosperity. Given uncertain times ahead, we are...
“With the help of Nuclear Watch New Mexico, [Chemist and Northern Arizona University professor emeritus] Ketterer took samples of soil, water and plants from a few locations around Acid Canyon,...
In a major decision whose consequences are still being assessed, a federal judge declared that plutonium pit production — one ingredient in the U.S. government’s $1.5 trillion nuclear weapons expansion...
On September 30, United States District Court Judge Mary Geiger Lewis ruled that the United States Department of Energy (“DOE”) and its semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency, the National Nuclear Security...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, October 3, 2024 Media Contacts: Ben Cunningham, Esquire, SCELP, 843-527-0078, ben@scelp.org Tom Clements, Savannah River Site Watch, 803-834-3084, tomclements329@cs.com Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, 505-989-7342, jay@nukewatch.org...
Coinciding with NNSA’s announcement of the first diamond-stamped pit, a US District Court ruled that the Energy Department and the NNSA violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) by failing...
Both sides of the case are ordered to present a joint plan to address violations by Oct. 25 One of the plaintiffs, Jay Coghlan, the executive director of Nuclear Watch...
In April Nuclear Watch New Mexico released a map of plutonium contamination based on Lab data. Today, Dr. Michael Ketterer, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Northern Arizona University, is...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, August 15, 2024 Dr. Michael Ketterer – 928.853.7188 | Email Jay Coghlan – 505.989.7342 | Email Santa Fe, NM – In April Nuclear Watch New Mexico released...
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) Los Alamos Field Office held a Town Hall event hosted by the DOE National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and...
BY MARIAN NARANJO AND KATHY SANCHEZ, SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN | July 21, 2024 santafenewmexican.com On Monday, top officials from the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration and Office of...
Your Nuclear Watch New Mexico team has just returned from a weeklong trip to Washington D.C. (we went so you don’t have to!). We proudly joined the Alliance for Nuclear...
NukeWatch has recently published a project on plutonium sampling at Los Alamos National Laboratory showing plutonium migration and contamination into the groundwater at and around the lab. See more: Click...
Plutonium hotspots appear along tribal lands, hiking trails, city streets and the Rio Grande River, a watchdog group finds “Nuclear Watch’s driving question, according to Scott Kovac, its operations and...
Who: Nuclear Watch New Mexico and chemist Dr. Michael Ketterer, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Arizona University What: Nuclear Watch has mapped plutonium migration based on sampling data from Intellus,...
https://nukewatch.org/interactive-map-plutonium-contamination-and-migration-around-lanl/
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, April 17, 2024 Tom Clements, SRS Watch – 803.240.7268 | Email Scott Yundt, TVC – 415.990.2070 | Email Jay Coghlan – 505.989.7342 | Email Nearly three years...
By Jay Coghlan, The Santa Fe Reporter | sfreporter.com EFF Designer Hannah Diaz Cover, March 13: “The Foilies” THE GREATEST FOILIE OF ALL The Reporter should stick around in its own back yard for...
Arms Race Accelerates with MIRVed Warheads Los Alamos Lab Cleanup Cut Ironically the day after the film Oppenheimer was awarded multiple Oscars, the Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security...
Arms Race Accelerates with MIRVed Warheads Los Alamos Lab Cleanup Cut FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, March 11, 2024 Jay Coghlan – 505.989.7342 | Email Santa Fe, NM – Ironically the day...
Some DOE/NNSA budget numbers from FY 2024 Energy and Water Agreement https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20240304/FY24%20EW%20Conference%20JES%20scan.pdf President must sign by Friday March 8 to avoid a partial government shutdown, including DOE and NNSA. Lowlights:...
Are America’s plutonium pits too old to perform in the new Cold War? Or are new ones necessary? “To look at short-term change [in plutonium pits], scientists have created experiments...
By Jay Coghlan Texas wildfires live updates: Blaze grows to 500k acres, leading to power outages, evacuations across the map nbcnews.com/news/us-news/live-blog/texas-wildfires-live-updates-huge-blaze-covers-300000-acres-forcing-ev The 2000 Cerro Grande Fire burned 3,500 acres...