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ARCHBISHOP JOHN C. WESTER’S STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF TRINITY TEST DOWNWINDERS AND URGES PASSAGE OF THE RADIATION EXPOSURE COMPENSATION ACT

ALBUQUERQUE, NM – Monday, March 18, 2024– IMMEDIATE RELEASE – The following is a message from Most Reverend John C. Wester, Archbishop of Santa Fe, and Anne Avellone, Director, Office of...

Nuclear Communities of the Southwest: New Exhibit at the Albuquerque Museum

NukeWatch’s Nuclear New Mexico Map will be on display as part of Nuclear Communities of the Southwest at the Albuquerque Museum. This exhibition features videos, photographs, and memorabilia from Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories...

NNSA’s Nuclear Weapons Budget Takes Huge Jump

March 11, 2024April 9, 2024Biden Administration, Budget, LANL Cleanup, Plutonium Pit Production

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...

NNSA’s Nuclear Weapons Budget Takes Huge Jump

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...

DOE/NNSA budget numbers from FY 2024 Energy and Water Agreement

March 8, 2024March 8, 2024Biden Administration, Budget, Nuclear Policy

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:...

The reawakening of America’s nuclear dinosaurs

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...

A Note on the Value of Site-Wide EISs in Midst of Texas Wildfires Updates

February 27, 2024October 21, 2025Climate Change, Environmental Impact, High-level Radioactive Waste, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Pantex Plant

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...

It’s been a decade since the radiological release at WIPP. Here’s what has happened since then.

Watchdog groups point to lower shipments after incident. Officials tout tighter safety protocols By Adrian Hedden, Carlsbad Current-Argus February 23, 2024 | currentargus.com A drum of nuclear waste ruptured 10 years...

DNFSB Recommendation February 8, 2024 – Excerpts Pertaining to LANL

February 20, 2024February 26, 2024DNFSB, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab.

Published 2/8/24 in the Federal Register at https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-02-08/pdf/2024-02513.pdf Pre-published at: https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-02513.pdf Page numbers below are from that. All excerpts are verbatim. DNFSB Recommendation 2003-01 Onsite Transportation Safety [TSD = “Transportation Safety...

Public given more time to comment on LANL’s steps against toxic plume

“Scott Kovac, Nuclear Watch New Mexico’s operations director, said the proposed actions seem broad, lacking important details on what actually would be done. Also, it would make more sense to...

Nuclear Weapons Issues & The Accelerating Arms Race: February 2024

February 15, 2024October 21, 2025FY 2023 Budget, FY 2024 Budget, High-level Radioactive Waste, Holtec, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Modernization, New Mexico, Pit Production, Pit Production at LANL, Pit Production at SRS

FEDERAL BUDGET NEWS Release of federal FY 2025 budget expected March 11 (it will initially be just topline numbers). Meanwhile on the FY 2024 budget: House and Senate Armed Services...

NNSA Suppresses How Taxpayers Money Is Spent

January 19, 2024March 8, 2024Budget, DOE, GAO, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., NNSA, Pit Production

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has just released cursory two or three page summaries of contractors’ performance paid for by the American taxpayer. For the just ended fiscal year...

NNSA Suppresses How Taxpayers Money Is Spent

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, January 19, 2024 Jay Coghlan – 505.989.7342 | Email Santa Fe, NM – The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has just released cursory two or three page...

As New Mexicans Struggle, Sen. Heinrich is Proud of Nuclear Weapons Money

January 12, 2024November 12, 2024Budget, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., New Mexico, Pit Production at LANL, Plutonium Pit Production, Sandia National Laboratories

Sen. Heinrich is so proud of all of the nuclear weapons money in New Mexico. He is one of the chief congressional architects of expanded production of plutonium “pit” bomb...

Nuclear Weapons Issues & The Accelerating Arms Race: January 2024

January 10, 2024February 10, 2024FY 2023 Budget, FY 2024 Budget, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Modernization, New Mexico, North Korea, Sandia National Laboratories

FEDERAL BUDGET NEWS Half of the federal budget (including Energy and Water appropriations which funds DOE) shuts down January 19 and the other half February 2 if a Continuing Resolution...

Submit Public Comment on the Environmental Assessment for LANL Chromium Plume by March 13

The Department of Energy (DOE) releases Draft Chromium Interim Measure and Final Remedy Environmental Assessment to address a chromium plume under Los Alamos National Laboratory. But there is no ‘final remedy.’...

Environmental Assessment (EA) For Chromium Plume At LANL Now Out For Review

Carol A. Clark, Los Alamos Daily Post | December 19, 2023 ladailypost.com Summary Groundwater sampling data from monitoring wells at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) indicate the presence of chromium contamination...

Buried secrets, poisoned bodies

Why did a Truchas woman die with extraordinary amounts of plutonium in her body — and why was she illegally autopsied? For this reporter, the answers hit close to home....

LANL reports glove box breach, tritium drift weeks apart

“…Anti-nuclear activists contend the increasing number of glove box mishaps are part of a trend that will continue as the lab processes more plutonium, partly in pursuit of making the...

State, feds will seek independent expert over chromium plume threatening San Ildefonso Pueblo

“Scott Kovac, Nuclear Watch New Mexico’s operations director, agreed getting a third set of eyes on the project would be helpful, especially if this expert can suggest an alternative to...

Support COMPREHENSIVE CLEANUP at Area C – Your Comments Needed!

Extended 2-Page Sample Comments available now! Download here: nukewatch.org/mda-c-2023-2-page-sample-comments-10-25-23-2 [WORD DOC] We need your help to support the State’s mandate to excavate wastes instead of leaving them in place. The...

Amid current upgrades, commission foresees replacing LANL plutonium facility

An anti-nuclear watchdog group contends the pits’ main purpose is to be fitted into the new warheads — not to upgrade existing weapons — and expanding the arsenal requires more...

U.S. Strategic Posture Commission Ratchets Up Nuclear Arms Race

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, October 12, 2023 Jay Coghlan – 505.989.7342 | Email Santa Fe, NM – Today, America’s Strategic Posture, The Final Report was released by the Congressional Commission on...

U.S. Strategic Posture Commission Ratchets Up Nuclear Arms Race

October 12, 2023March 3, 2024Archbishop, Budget, Nuclear Policy, Nuclear Weapons, Russia

Today, America’s Strategic Posture, The Final Report was released by the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States. In its own words: “The Congressional Commission on the...

GAO: Lab faces four-year delay, cost growth for making nuclear bomb cores

“The agency spending more on pit production than originally envisioned isn’t technically a cost overrun because no funding baseline was ever established…This means there’s no benchmark anyone can point to...