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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....

Nuclear Weapons Issues & The Accelerating Arms Race: September 2025

October 10, 2025January 8, 2026Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear Weapons Update: Budget: • House Republicans passed by one vote $57.3 billion in Energy and Water appropriations. They made big cuts to renewable energy programs while boosting nuclear weapons...

URGENT ACTION NEEDED to Help Protect the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board!

Congress must act to keep the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) from losing its quorum on October 18. We need YOUR help to get them to take action in...

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 |...

New Mexicans Can Save the DNFSB; Contact Our Senators Today

From our friends at Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety: The independent Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board has been dwindling from a five-member board to one member and may disappear if...

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...

August 6th U.S. Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima Commemoration in Santa Fe

August 8, 2025August 25, 2025Archbishop, Budget, DOE, Downwinders, Environmental Impact, Hiroshima, ICAN, Japan, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Modernization, Nagasaki, New Mexico, Nuclear Weapons, Plutonium Pit Production, TPNW

Eighty Years Later, it is Beyond Time to Get Rid of Nuclear Weapons. Last week on August 6, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, community...

Santa Fe New Mexican MY VIEW – 80 years on: The immorality of nuclear weapons

By John C. Wester, SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN | August 5, 2024 santafenewmexican.com Greetings New Mexicans. The lord’s blessings upon you. I am writing to you from Hiroshima, Japan, on the...

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...

Time Zero: 05: The Lab (Part 01)

https://964f6bfd-c857-4667-8d59-615efbd0d7c4.libsyn.com/05-the-lab-part-01 “When the Manhattan Project arrived on the Pajarito Plateau in northern New Mexico, the land was not uninhabited. To establish the highly secretive Site Y, the United States military...

Planned Nuclear Weapons Activities Increase to 84% of Lab’s Budget; All Other Programs Cut

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, June 30, 2025 Contact: Scott Kovac – 505.316.4148 | Email The Department of Energy and Los Alamos National Laboratory have released the LANL congressional budget request for the...

Planned Nuclear Weapons Activities Increase to 84% of Lab’s Budget; All Other Programs Cut

June 30, 2025December 1, 2025Budget, Climate Change, DOE, LANL Cleanup, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., NNSA, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons, Pit Production at LANL

The Department of Energy and Los Alamos National Laboratory have released the LANL congressional budget request for the upcoming fiscal year, 2026, which begins on October 1, 2025. The request...

NukeWatch in DC Advocating for Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

June 30, 2025January 15, 2026Budget, DNFSB, DOE, Downwinders, Environmental Justice, GAO, High-level Radioactive Waste, LANL Cleanup, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Modernization, NNSA, Nuclear Weapons, Plutonium Pit Production, Savannah River Site, WIPP

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!). The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) hosts...

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...

JOIN US: Upcoming Virtual Workshops on the Nationwide Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement

JOIN US: Virtual Workshop On the Nationwide Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement on the Expanded Production of Plutonium “Pit” Bomb Cores Public comments help increase transparency and safety. It is crucial...

The Workers, the Waste, and the Warnings from Bomb Country

“From South Carolina to California, locals in nuclear weapons towns raise health, safety, and environmental concerns over renewed plutonium pit manufacturing.” By: Taylor Barnes | June 12, 2025 inkstickmedia.com The United...

NNSA’s Nuclear Weapons Programs Slated for 53% Increase

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, June 3, 2025 Contact: Jay Coghlan – 505.989.7342 | Email Santa Fe, NM – Topline budget figures for the Department of Energy (DOE) have been released under...

Lawsuit Compels Nationwide Public Review of Plutonium Bomb Core Production

May 9, 2025October 13, 2025Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., New Mexico, NNSA, Nuclear Weapons, Pantex Plant, Pit Production at LANL, Pit Production at SRS, Plutonium Pit Production, Savannah River Site, Washington DC

AIKEN, S.C. — Today the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency within the Department of Energy, published a formal Notice of Intent in the Federal Register...

Lawsuit Compels Nationwide Public Review of Plutonium Bomb Core Production

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, May 9, 2025 Media Contacts: Ben Cunningham, Esquire, SCELP, 843-527-0078, ben@scelp.org Queen Quet, Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition, 843-838-1171, GullGeeCo@aol.com Tom Clements, Savannah River Site Watch, 803-834-3084, tomclements329@cs.com...

NNSA issues plans to assess pits environmental impact

“This programmatic environmental impact statement that we fought long and hard for empowers citizens to tell policy makers what they think about decisions being made in their name,” Jay Coghlan,...

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...

Nuclear Nightmare: Meet America’s New B61-12 Gravity Bomb

What makes the B61-12 particularly impressive is the bomb’s ability to adjust its destructive yield depending on the operational conditions and demands. By Stavros Atlamazoglou, National Interest | March 26, 2025...