Read Taylor Barnes’ deep dive into Northrup Grumman, chosen manufacture of the Sentinel ICBM, for which the Los Alamos National Lab and Savannah River Site would make new plutonium pits....
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!). We proudly joined the Alliance for Nuclear...
A group of anti-nuclear activists used data from Los Alamos National Laboratory to map places where plutonium contamination has been found in areas near the lab. Nuclear Watch New Mexico...
“[NukeWatch] argued [their] plutonium migration map provides “compelling evidence of the need for a comprehensive cleanup” at the lab. The Department of Energy instead has proposed a plan to “cap...
Below are examples of a spreadsheets created in Intellus, which is the environmental database at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The requests were for all soil and groundwater samples taken in,...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, April 17, 2024 Tom Clements, SRS Watch – 803.240.7268 | Email Scott Yundt, TVC – 415.990.2070 | Email Jay Coghlan – 505.989.7342 | Email Nearly three years...
“In an email, an anti-nuclear watchdog argued the 10 incidents the board lists in the report were “potentially dangerous.” “The discouraging overall trend is the accelerating frequency of these events...
By Jay Coghlan, The Santa Fe Reporter | sfreporter.com EFF Designer Hannah Diaz Cover, March 13: “The Foilies” THE GREATEST FOILIE OF ALL The Reporter should stick around in its own back yard for...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“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...
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...
Los Alamos National Laboratory workers evacuated a section of the plutonium facility in December after a newly installed glove box used for handling radioactive materials released “unexpectedly high levels” of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.’...