This revised Consent Order will create serious barriers to achieving cleanup, limits public participation opportunities, undermines enforceability by the Environment Department, puts the Department of Energy (DOE) in the driver’s...
For Immediate Release New Mexico Environmental Law Center Nuclear Watch New Mexico – Santa Fe, NM A United States District Court judge has ruled that a lawsuit filed by Nuclear...
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Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) On This Page: Current Events / Issues / Facility Description July 11, 2017. SRS Watch reports: U.S. DOE Documents Obtained via FOIA Request Confirm "Mission Need" to Expand "Dilute and...
Description and Current Mission There are three major nuclear weapons laboratories in the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA's) nuclear weapons complex, Los Alamos (LANL), Lawrence Livermore, and Sandia National Laboratories...
Description and Current Mission The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), located in north-central New Mexico, was founded during World War II as a secret laboratory for the Manhattan Project. This...
The first nuclear weapon test was carried out by the United States at the Trinity site on July 16, 1945, with a yield approximately equivalent to 20 kilotons. The first...
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...
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Update June 8, 2018: The Ten Year Site Plans have been removed from the NNSA server. We don't yet know if NNSA intends to violate the stipulated order (see below)...
2023 Performance Evaluation Reports: Kansas City National Security Campus Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Los Alamos National Laboratory ("Triad National Security") Nevada National Security Site Pantex and Y-12 National Security Complex/Pantex...
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...
NUKEWATCH WORK PRODUCT NUKEWATCH MEDIA Atomic Histories & Nuclear Testing LANL's Central Mission: Los Alamos Lab officials have recently claimed that LANL has moved away from primarily nuclear weapons to "national...
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...
2019 March 12, 2019 Lawsuit Advances Against Los Alamos National Laboratory Management Potential Penalties Over $272,000,000
LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LAB CLEANUP LAWSUIT Nuke Watch New Mexico filed a lawsuit against Los Alamos National Labs and DOE in January of 2016. This lawsuit is over LANL and...
"The most toxic and dangerous type of radioactive waste created by the nuclear industry" This is waste generated by nuclear power plants called 'high-level radioactive waste' (HLW), also known as...
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...
The Pentagon considers eight projects part of its nuclear modernization budget: new ICBMs, cruise missiles, updates to submarine-launched missiles, a new stealth bomber, new strategic submarines, updates to existing gravity...
NukeWatch advocates for comprehensive cleanup at LANL over the Lab's proposed "cap and cover" approach to the more than 200,000 cubic yards of toxic and radioactive waste permanently buried in...
Arms Control & Non-Proliferation Los Alamos National Lab Cleanup Lawsuits Lethal High Level Waste to NM Mox / Plutonium Disposition Nuclear "Modernization" Plutonium Pit Production U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex Cleanup...
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...
Santa Fe, NM – Today the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced its choice for the new management and operating contract for the Los Alamos National Laboratory...
“Santa Fe, NM & Columbia, SC. Two key U.S. Department of Energy documents on future production of plutonium “pits” for nuclear weapons, not previously released to the public, fail to...
Santa Fe, NM & Columbia, SC – Two key U.S. Department of Energy documents on future production of plutonium “pits” for nuclear weapons, not previously released to the public, fail...