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...
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A Note on the Value of Site-Wide EISs in Midst of Texas Wildfires Updates
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
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Nothing Found It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching can help. QUICK SEARCH Title Link Plutonium Pit Production Fact Sheet – July 2024 View/Download WIPP March...
Author Details the Nuclear ‘Colonization’ of New Mexico
🠟 LISTEN • 28:59 https://cpa.ds.npr.org/s227/audio/2023/08/fpa.mp3 By Megan Kamerick, KUNM | August 18, 2023 kunm.org University Showcase 8/18 8a: This month marks the 78th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,...
National Nuclear Security Administration: New Assessments of Major Projects from the Government Accountability Office
National Nuclear Security Administration: Assessments of Major Projects GAO-23-104402 Published: Aug 17, 2023. Publicly Released: Aug 17, 2023. The National Nuclear Security Administration plans to invest over $30 billion in its major...
Commemoration Of 1945 Bombing Of Nagasaki, Japan Held Wednesday At Ashley Pond Park
An informal gathering was held from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday at Ashley Pond Park to recognize the harm of the bombing of Nagasaki, Japan 78 years ago. Participants...
U.S. And Japanese Clergy Enter Into Partnership To Achieve A ‘World Without Nuclear Weapons’
BY KELSEY D. ATHERTON | August 9, 2023 – 78th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombing, Archbishop’s House of Nagasaki, Japan, 2023 losalamosreporter.com On the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima...