“I can’t understand why this administration does not value cleanup and would risk breaking the legal commitments [the Department of Energy] has made to the state of New Mexico with...
“To have a 46 percent cut in Los Alamos cleanup is stunning,” said Jay Coghlan, executive director of Nuclear Watch New Mexico. “We’ve got nuclear weapons on steroids and cleanup...
ARTICLE BY MONICA ROMAN GAGNIER | abqjournal.com Copyright © 2020 Albuquerque Journal Overheard at the Blake’s Lotaburger at the corner of Guadalupe Street and Paseo de Peralta in Santa Fe:...
“The 2016 consent order should be jettisoned in its entirety,” said Jay Coghlan, executive director of Nuclear Watch New Mexico. “And the fundamental principle is the state should be in...
“NNSA’s refusal to complete programmatic environmental review before plunging ahead with plans to more than quadruple the production authorization for plutonium bomb cores flies in the face of our country’s...
The state of New Mexico is reconsidering its 2016 pact with the U.S. Department of Energy on how to regulate the cleanup of decades-old hazardous waste at Los Alamos National...
The contractor that’s been in charge of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s operations for the past year lost track of 250 barrels of waste, while the company heading the legacy cleanup...
Concerns that a calcium residue might be flammable prompted officials at Los Alamos National Laboratory to curtail plutonium operations and suspend waste shipments in early November, according to a federal...
“If DOE and LANL continue to treat the public with disdain, it is going to be a long and difficult permitting process. All in all, this first meeting was disappointing...
Santa Fe, NM – Today, the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper reported: “Santa Fe city leaders asked for developers’ ideas on what to do with the city-owned midtown campus…The National...
Santa Fe, NM – Today, the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper reported: “Santa Fe city leaders asked for developers’ ideas on what to do with the city-owned midtown campus…The National...
Scott Kovac of Nuclear Watch New Mexico and Jon Lipsky, the FBI agent who led the 1989 raid investigating environmental crimes that shut down the Rocky Flats Nuclear Bomb Plant...
JAY COGHLAN | abqjournal.com Ask the downwinders of nuclear weapons tests at the Marshal Islands and the Nevada Test Site whether the government should be trusted. Why should LANL be...
A ‘dirty, dirty process’ BY: KENDRA CHAMBERLAINE | nmpoliticalreport.com Los Alamos has a starring role in a shift to U.S. nuclear policy that’s two presidential terms in the making. Nuclear...
In a recent report, the Department Of Energy’s Office of Inspector General (IG) found issues with the way Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) keeps track of controlled substances such as...
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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...
“New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) Secretary James Kenney and other members of the department’s staff held a public meeting July 8 to address fears that NMED would move the Los...
BY MAIRE O’NEILL | losalamosreporter.com The message was clear at Wednesday evening’s Environmental Management Cleanup Forum at Fuller Lodge hosted by the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Los Alamos (EM-LA) Field...
By Rebecca Moss | rmoss@sfnewmexican.com Jun 22, 2019 Updated Jun 22, 2019 The U.S. Department of Energy in 2016 drafted a list of 17 projects at Los Alamos National Laboratory...
BY MARK OSWALD / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Saturday, June 1st, 2019 at 12:05am Copyright © 2019 Albuquerque Journal SANTA FE – A building at Los Alamos National Laboratory with a price...
JUNE 1, 2019 | BY MARK OSWALD | abqjournal.com Copyright © 2019 Albuquerque Journal SANTA FE – A building at Los Alamos National Laboratory with a price pegged at more than...
Jay Coghlan of Nuclear Watch New Mexico said the report “makes clear that DOE is blowing smoke when it says that it will produce 80 plutonium pits per year by...
Falling short of the bare minimum in the eyes of the DOE is a far cry from where the public expects or needs LANL to be. The Albuquerque Journal Editorial...