Plutonium pits are the radioactive cores or “triggers” of nuclear weapons. Their production has always been a chokepoint of resumed industrial-scale U.S. nuclear weapons production ever since a 1989 FBI...
LANL Ships Waste Offsite Illegally, Again and Again Posted by Scott Kovac Nov 14, 2018 New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) issued a Notice of Violation (NOV) to LANL for several...
BY JAMIE GREY & LEE ZURIK mysuncoast.com November 12, 2018 at 1:00 PM EST – Updated November 12 at 10:54 AM LOS ALAMOS, NEW MEXICO (InvestigateTV) – Clear, plastic water bottles,...
BY TRIS DEROMA – lamonitor.com | In opening testimony at a groundwater discharge permit hearing Wednesday, attorneys for a Los Alamos National Laboratory contractor said spraying the ground with water with remediated...
BY MAIRE O’NEILL The Northern New Mexico Citizens Advisory Board is asking Department of Energy (DOE) Environment Management and New Mexico Environment Department to address the potential impacts of the...
BY James Carroll, TomDispatch – truthout.org | Of the failure of Reykjavik, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze would then comment: “When future generations read the transcripts of this meeting, they will not forgive us.” [While meeting...
Andy Stiny | The Santa Fe New Mexican Three nuclear watchdog groups across the U.S., including Santa Fe-based Nuclear Watch New Mexico, are accusing the National Nuclear Security Administration of creating...
THE LOS ALAMOS MONITOR ONLINE Feds Test Regional Aquifer for More LANL Contamination of High Explosives Monday, October 22, 2018 Chemicals used to make high explosives have reached the regional...
Mini-nukes: Still a horrible and dangerous idea By John Mecklin, September 19, 2018 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Perhaps the most dangerous weapons program the US government has recently pursued...
In 1957, America narrowly averted a nuclear meltdown at the Rocky Flats plant in Colorado. A new book explores how close we all came to disaster. ANDREW COHEN | theatlantic.com...
New Mexico Senators Speak Out Over Order They Say Would Hamper Nuclear Safety Board They want Congress to suspend a move that would limit access to information about facilities and...
The West’s atomic past, in opera halls On stage and in Congress, Trinity test downwinders fight for recognition. Elena Saavedra Buckley, High Country News, Aug. 30, 2018 Outside the Santa Fe...
Trump Administration Muzzles Nuclear Weapons Safety Watchdog The administration, working in open alliance with profit-making contractors, is scaling back the safety group’s authority and slashing its staff. Center For Public...
A Salute to Whistleblowers Now Rescheduled Bigger, Better, Later in the Month Mark your calendar! Sept. 25 at 7pm at CCA Ever wonder what the news media are NOT telling...
State could block nuclear storage site near Carlsbad even if federally licensed By Adrian C. Hedden / Carlsbad Current-Argus, N.M. (TNS) Published: Thursday, August 16th, 2018 at 7:24am Updated: Saturday,...
Danny Katzman gave his punchline first Tuesday evening at the Nov. 20 Los Alamos County Board of Public Utilities meeting where he gave a presentation on Royal Demolition Explosive (RDX)...
The Revolving Door Wilson's revolving door career and links with corrupt practices are a caricature of the Congressional-Lobbyist-Contractor-Regulator nexus that she has played so well and for so long. Candidate...
Jay Coghlan, Executive Director of Nuclear Watch New Mexico, commenting on the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement (CMRR) Nuclear Facility in the plutonium...
Scott Kovac, Operations and Research Director, Nuclear Watch New Mexico debunking the argument that the economic impact of the proposed new nuclear facility at Los Alamos is an efficient use...
Amended Complaint Second Amended Complaint as filed Sept 21 Lawsuit Complaint Notice of Intent Motions to Dismiss All documents electronically filed with the court on August 31, 2016 NUCLEAR WATCH...
NUKEWATCH WORK PRODUCT NUKEWATCH MEDIA Atomic Histories & Nuclear Testing VIEW OUR RICH ARCHIVE OF NUCLEAR NEWS ARTICLES HERE LANL's Central Mission: Los Alamos Lab officials have recently claimed that LANL has...
Summary New Mexicans should push their politicians to vigorously lobby for comprehensive cleanup at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Unlike nuclear weapons programs, cleanup would be a win-win that...
For Immediate Release New Mexico Environmental Law Center Nuclear Watch New Mexico – Santa Fe, NM A United States District Court judge has ruled that a lawsuit filed by Nuclear...
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