Lab Claims of Tremendous Progress Need Second Look
Comments to the Northern NM Citizens’ Advisory Board By Scott Kovac, Nuclear Watch NM, July 24, 2019 Tremendous progress requires overall improvement, not just at one spot. A recent Environmental...
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Trinity: “The most significant hazard of the entire Manhattan Project”
“New Mexico residents were neither warned before the 1945 Trinity blast, informed of health hazards afterward, nor evacuated before, during, or after the test. Exposure rates in public areas from...
“New Mexico residents were neither warned before the 1945 Trinity blast, informed of health hazards afterward, nor evacuated before, during, or after the test. Exposure rates in public areas from...
What public engagement?
This article was originally published July 6, 2019 in the Santa Fe New Mexican Article Written by NukeWatch NM Volunteer: ALICIA SANDERS-ZAKRE The Department of Energy’s new attempt at “enhanced...
RCLC Hears Talk On Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility
The Regional Coalition of LANL Communities (RCLC) Board met Thursday in Española. BY BONNIE J. GORDON | ladailypost.com The meeting included a presentation by Holtec International Program Director Ed Mayer...
Nuke-Backing NDAA Passes Senate in Landslide
Graham and Heinrich double down on pit production and Safety Board threatened by Senate bill BY DAN LEONE | exchangemonitor.com The U.S. Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a 2020 National Defense...
Kick-Off For Public Participation In LANL Legacy Waste Cleanup Draws Large Crowd At Fuller Lodge
BY MAIRE O’NEILL | losalamosreporter.com The message was clear at Wednesday evening’s Environmental Management Cleanup Forum at Fuller Lodge hosted by the Department of Energy’s Environmental Management Los Alamos (EM-LA) Field...
LANL cleanup costs continue piling up
By Rebecca Moss | rmoss@sfnewmexican.com Jun 22, 2019 Updated Jun 22, 2019 The U.S. Department of Energy in 2016 drafted a list of 17 projects at Los Alamos National Laboratory...
Nuclear Waste Storage Concerns Raised By Panel Members During Santa Fe Forum
BY MAIRE O’NEILL maire@losalamosreporter.com Multiple concerns were raised by panel members Wednesday June 21, 2019 during a forum on nuclear waste in the state of New Mexico hosted by the...
Government watchdog finds 3 issues disrupting US nuclear modernization efforts
BY KELSEY REICHMANN | defensenews.com June 20, 2019 WASHINGTON — The U.S. agency responsible for making explosive materials used in nuclear weapons is facing challenges that could impact the country’s...
Critics blast plutonium pit production pitch at Aiken forum
A coalition of nuclear watchers and environmental groups on Friday night hosted a public forum in Aiken, during which speakers unloaded on the proposed plutonium pit production expansion at both...
Critics raise concerns over proposed atomic bomb factory near Aiken
Anti-nuclear activists fired away Friday at what they said is a dangerous and little known plan to produce deadly atomic weapons components at the Savannah River Site near Aiken. BY...
Critics raise concerns over proposed atomic bomb factory near Aiken
Anti-nuclear activists fired away Friday at what they said is a dangerous and little known plan to produce deadly atomic weapons components at the Savannah River Site near Aiken. JUNE...
Brave Political Leadership on Disarmament?
By Alicia Sanders-Zakre Foreign ministers and high-level representatives from 15 non-nuclear-armed countries gathered in Stockholm on Tuesday to discuss advancing disarmament, amidst an ever-deteriorating arms control, disarmament and nonproliferation landscape....
HASC Panel’s Bill Could Slow-Roll NNSA’s Planned S.C. Pit Plant
The Department of Energy would no longer have to make 80 plutonium pits a year by the end of the next decade, if legislation unveiled Monday in the Democrat-controlled House...
Letter on Need for a Programmatic EIS for Expanded Plutonium Pit Production
Re: The need to prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement in connection with plans to expand plutonium pit production at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and the...
Billion-dollar LANL building has plumbing problem
BY MARK OSWALD / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Saturday, June 1st, 2019 at 12:05am Copyright © 2019 Albuquerque Journal SANTA FE – A building at Los Alamos National Laboratory with a price...
Billion-dollar LANL building has plumbing problem
JUNE 1, 2019 | BY MARK OSWALD | abqjournal.com Copyright © 2019 Albuquerque Journal SANTA FE – A building at Los Alamos National Laboratory with a price pegged at more than...
Faulty Radioactive Liquid Waste Valves Raise Crucial Plutonium Pit Production and Safety Board Issues
There should be no expanded pit production until nuclear safety is fully assured by an independent, unrestricted Safety Board, and our congressional delegation should be the first to demand that.
Study questions whether LANL, DOE can meet ‘pits’ production goal
Jay Coghlan of Nuclear Watch New Mexico said the report “makes clear that DOE is blowing smoke when it says that it will produce 80 plutonium pits per year by...
Editorial: LANL leaders must make safety the lab’s top mission
Falling short of the bare minimum in the eyes of the DOE is a far cry from where the public expects or needs LANL to be. The Albuquerque Journal Editorial...
Editorial: LANL leaders must make safety the lab’s top mission
“Falling short of the bare minimum in the eyes of the DOE is a far cry from where the public expects or needs LANL to be.” BY ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL EDITORIAL...
Forum on June 14 in Aiken, SC on Expanded Production of Plutonium “Pits” for Nuclear Weapons
Forum on June 14 in Aiken, SC on Expanded Production of Plutonium “Pits” – for Nuclear Weapons – to Give Voice to Concerns in Face of DOE’s Failure to Engage...
A Tale of Two Consent Orders and What Is Needed
On March 1, 2005, after arduous negotiations and threats of litigation, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED), Department of Energy (DOE), and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) entered into a...
A Tale of Two Consent Orders and What Is Needed
On March 1, 2005, after arduous negotiations and threats of litigation, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED), Department of Energy (DOE), and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) entered into a...