Feds stand by splitting ‘pit’ production between LANL, S.C.
“NNSA’s plans for expanded plutonium pit production is a house of cards waiting to fall down. First, we have an agency with a long track record of cost overruns and...
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NNSA Downplays Study That Says Agency Can’t Make 50 Nuke Cores Per Year by 2030 in S.C.
A planned South Carolina facility will be able to produce 50 plutonium nuclear-weapon cores a year by 2030, despite a Department of Energy-funded study that says 2035 is more realistic,...
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 –...
Trump’s 2020 Nuclear Weapons Budget Escalates New Arms Race
Posted By Scott Kovac Santa Fe, NM – Today the Trump Administration released more budget details for the Department of Energy and its semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration’s nuclear weapons...
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...
Sandia National Laboratories Annual Budget is 81% Military Work
Posted by Scott Kovac – Sandia National Laboratories, has one of the Department Of Energy’s (DOE’s) largest annual budgets and the fiscal year 2020 (FY20) Congressional Budget Request shows continued...
New Momentum for Saner Nuclear Policy: Event Highlights
BY SOPHIA STROUD | – NukeWatch NM Web Designer Monday 3/18 Ploughshares Fund hosted an in-depth discussion about the momentum building for a new, saner nuclear policy and how California can lead...
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...
Trump Budget Would Continue Nuclear Weapons Buildup and Bring More Nuclear Waste to NM
By Scott Kovac, Operations and Research Director The White House released the top line numbers of its fiscal year 2020 Congressional budget request and, although there are some increases heading to...
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...
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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...
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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...
Nuclear safety board cites safety concerns in reduced role
BY REBECCA MOSS | santafenewmexican.com Members of the public and a federal nuclear safety board voiced concerns this week that a U.S. Department of Energy order implemented in May excludes some facilities from...
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...
Opponents fight back against WIPP permit change on waste volume tracking, appeal filed
“Scott Kovac of Nuclear Watch New Mexico said the change should not have been approved without an explanation from the DOE about how to address lost space after a contamination...
Plutonium Pit Production NEPA Talking Points
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is the landmark environmental law which requires executive agencies to give the public the opportunity to formally review and comment on major federal proposals....
“Preliminary” Research Pushes Economic Impact Boundaries for LANL
While Sandia, LANL, and Journal Statements Leave Many Questions A January 15 Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) press release reviewed preliminary research from the University of New Mexico’s Bureau of Business...
Advocacy Groups Go to Court to Stop WIPP Waste Volume Accounting Change
“Rather than pursuing the permit modification, the Department of Energy should comply with the legal capacity limit and begin a public process to explain what additional waste it wants to...
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;...
New LANL director: Community relations is a priority
Albuquerque Journal BY MARK OSWALD / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Sunday, January 6th, 2019 at 12:02am The new director of Los Alamos National Laboratory says that, along with the lab’s nuclear...
LANL’s ex-operator cited for another safety violation
Albuquerque Journal BY MARK OSWALD / JOURNAL STAFF WRITER Friday, January 4th, 2019 at 11:02pm SANTA FE – The nuclear security wing of U.S. Department of Energy has issued...