Recognizes the Inherent Challenges in Meeting Requirements for Plutonium Pit Production and Notes that the Current Approach is Achievable Given Sufficient Time, Resources, & Management Focus energy.gov | WASHINGTON –...

US underground nuclear waste dump explained

BY SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN | stripes.com March 23, 2019 WHAT IS THE WASTE ISOLATION PILOT PLANT? WIPP is the United States’ only permanent underground repository licensed to take what is...

Area G

The 63-acre Material Disposal Area G at Los Alamos National Laboratory holds radioactive and other hazardous waste generated by nuclear weapons production during the Manhattan Project of World War II...

Nuclear Watch Work Product

Chronological – 2013 to Date 2018 November 16, 2018 Fact Sheet Expanded Plutonium Pit Production for U.S. Nuclear Weapons Plutonium pits are the radioactive cores or “triggers” of nuclear weapons. Their...

Media

NMED And EM-LA Present FY2019 Legacy Cleanup Priorities In Community Meeting Los Alamos Reporter, Dec 1, 2018, By Marie O’Neill Under public comment, Jay Coghlan, director of Nuclear Watch New...

Nuclear safety board still wary of DOE changes

BY MARK OSWALD / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER| abqjournal.com Copyright © 2019 Albuquerque Journal SANTA FE – At the end of a hourslong meeting in Albuquerque on Thursday night, officials from U.S. Department of...

Nuke Waste Destined to Remain

BY COLIN DEMAREST | thetandd.com  Aiken Standard: ‘I’m not confident at all’: U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham casts real doubt on Energy Department GREENVILLE — South Carolina’s senior senator, who often stumps for the...

LANL’s New Director Discusses Changing Culture

BY REBECCA MOSS | santafenewmexican.com  Three months into his tenure as the 12th director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Thomas Mason acknowledged that fixing the lab’s problems is going to take time, and...

Permit Changes at WIPP Face Challenges

By Mark Oswald | Journal Staff Writer abqjournal.com | Sunday, January 13th, 2019 at 12:01am U.S. Sen. Tom Udall is encouraging Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s new administration to reconsider a state government...

More Nuclear Waste Coming to New Mexico

Albuquerque Journal By Mark Oswald / Journal Staff Writer Sunday, January 13th, 2019 at 12:01am U.S. Sen. Tom Udall is encouraging Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s new administration to reconsider a...

An inspector monitors radiations around containers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2003 prior to shipping nuclear waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad. New Mexican file photo;...

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