Make no doubt about it, Los Alamos National Laboratory is a nuclear weapons research, development, and production facility. In this year’s FY18 Congressional Budget Request: 70% of the Lab’s budget...
The third article in the Center for Public Integrity’s landmark series on safety lapses while contractors profit at the nuclear weapons labs is carried today in the New Mexican at...
Some Background on Plutonium Pit Production at the Los Alamos Lab The Washington Post has published the first in a series of articles on nuclear safety lapses in plutonium pit...
The Washington Post has published the first in a series of articles on nuclear safety lapses in plutonium pit production at the Los Alamos Lab. Plutonium pits are the fissile...
Santa Fe, NM The Washington Post has published the first in a series of articles on nuclear safety lapses in plutonium pit production at the Los Alamos Lab. Plutonium pits...
Santa Fe, NM – The nonprofit organization Third Way is claiming that it has received a leaked version of Trump’s FY 2018 budget that is scheduled to be released this...
Santa Fe, NM. The proposed level of funding for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA)’s Total Weapons Activities is $10.2 billion, a full billion above what was requested for FY...
Commentary by NukeWatch Steering Committee member Chuck Montaño. Chuck is a federally protected LANLK whistleblower, and we’re proud to have him! ******* It’s disturbing, but not surprising that both New...
America is at a crossroads, having to choose between an unnecessarily large, exorbitant, nuclear weapons stockpile, and cleanup that would protect the environment and water resources for future generations. Expanded...
The New Mexico legislature should hold NMED's feet to the fire so that New Mexicans have a real environment department that protects our precious water resources and creates jobs doing so.
Santa Fe, NM The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has publicly released its fiscal year 2016 Performance Evaluation Report (PER) for Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS), the for-profit contractor...
For more than 70 years, Los Alamos National Laboratory dug thousands of deep and shallow graves across mesas and filled them with the radioactive waste, chemicals, and solvents used to...
New Mexican Politicians Should Not Be Misled Energy Dept Misrepresents Cost and Scope of Los Alamos Cleanup Santa Fe, NM – The Department of Energy (DOE) has released a 2016...
Santa Fe, NM “…The DOE report is far from honest. It intentionally omits any mention of approximately 150,000 cubic meters of poorly characterized radioactive and toxic wastes just at Area...
Santa Fe, NM The Department of Energy (DOE) has released a 2016 Lifecycle Cost Estimate Summary of proposed future cleanup at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). At the beginning...
August 10, 2016 Santa Fe, NM – Yesterday, on the 71st anniversary of the destruction of Nagasaki by a plutonium bomb, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) submitted a report to...
Santa Fe, NM The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is a semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency within the Department of Energy, which has the singular distinction of being the only federal...
NNSA FY 2017 Budget Request: Nuclear Watch NM Compilation and Analysis NNSA FY 2017 Budget Request Lab Budgets LANL FY 2017 Budget Request Lawrence Livermore FY 2017 Budget Request
NM Environment Dept Finalizes Consent Order on Los Alamos Lab Cleanup Surrenders Enforcement to Nuclear Weaponeers Santa Fe, NM – In a classic move to avoid publicity, the New...
Santa Fe, NM The new Consent Order is a giveaway to the Department of Energy and the Lab, surrendering the strong enforceability of the old Consent Order. The new Order...
Dear Friends, Thanks to those who made it to the meeting last night! NukeWatch has a new petition – The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) has issued a proposed...
Dear Friends, Please join us for an informal public meeting Tuesday, May 24 at 6pm. Main Library Community Room, 145 Washington Ave, Santa Fe, NM Please remember that no refreshments...
May 17, 2016 Nuclear Watch NM Files Lawsuit Over Lack of Cleanup at the Los Alamos Lab; NM Environment Dept. Forgoes Nearly $300 Million in Penalties Santa Fe, NM –...
Buried in the just released NNSA FY 2015 Performance Evaluation Report (PER) for Consolidated Nuclear Security LLC (the combined contract for Pantex and Y-12 run by Lockheed Martin and Bechtel)...
Santa Fe, NM. Nuclear Watch New Mexico has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Department of Energy and Los Alamos National Security LLC (LANS), the for-profit operator of...