NM Environment Department Starts Clock on Four Legacy Waste Penalties at LANL The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) has sent notices to Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) that the State...
DOE releases Investigation of Incident at WIPP by Technical Assessment Team On February 14, 2014, an incident in Panel 7 Room 7 (P7R7) of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP)...
NukeWatch NM Commentary: Not to mention Tom Udall’s not-so-unlikely alliance with the nuclear weapons industry in New Mexico. For that he sits on the Senate Energy and Water Development Appropriations...
Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance Nuclear Watch New Mexico For immediate release. March 4, 2015 Watchdog Groups Praise NNSA Decision to Obey the Law, Prepare Supplement Analysis on Bomb Plant...
Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance Nuclear Watch New Mexico GROUPS JOIN TO DEMAND ANSWERS ABOUT BOMB PLANT PLANS For immediate release: March 2, 2015 The Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance...
The New Mexican Feb. 26, 2015 Letter to the Editor http://www.santafenewmexican.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/letters-to-the-editor-feb/article_74b054a2-432f-5f0e-8fb1-ec972291a10f.html Udall’s stand A recent New Mexican article (“Udall weighs in on LANL’s next mission: Pits,” Feb. 22) quotes Sen....
Nuclear Watch New Mexico FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 2, 2015 Contact: Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch NM, 505.989.7342 DOE Nuclear Weapons Budget Up 10%, Equals Cold War Record Huge Startup for...
The Administration releases its Congressional Budget Request this Monday, February 2, 2015. Questions for the U.S. Department of Energy FY 2016 Nuclear Weapons and Cleanup Budget Request From Alliance for...
Nonproliferation Expert Highlights Need for New Tools for Nuclear Nonproliferation and Verification January 12,2015, nonproliferation expert Dr. James Doyle is releasing a report making the case for expansion of the...
Watchdogs Urge Big Cut to Contractor Fees at the Sandia Labs December 19, 2014 – The Project On Government Oversight and Nuclear Watch New Mexico sent the Department of Energy...
Washington, DC and Santa Fe, NM Today, the Project On Government Oversight and Nuclear Watch New Mexico sent the Department of Energy Secretary a letter urging that the FY 2014...
GAO Seeks Broader Analysis For Proposed Liquid Waste Facility at LANL The Government Accounting Office (GAO) was mandated to review the “analysis of alternatives” (AOA) process applied by NNSA. The...
Santa Fe, NM – Yesterday, the Congressional Advisory Panel on the Governance of the Nuclear Security Enterprise released its long awaited report, entitled “A New Foundation for the Nuclear Enterprise.”...
On December 6, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) declared multiple violations at both the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). NMED plans to fine...
Santa Fe, NM Today the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) declared multiple violations at both the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). NMED plans to...
The House Armed Services Committee has tried repeatedly to cripple the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, realizing that the Board slows down what the nuclear weaponeers want to do (and...
Highlights of National Nuclear Security Administration Issues In the House FY 2015 National Defense Authorization Act Sources: House FY 2015 NDAA, pages 1516 – 1555 and budget tables beginning...
Despite the fact that no one has come up with a good reason to increase plutonium pit production for the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile, officials want to study the possibility...
Despite the fact that no one has come up with a good reason to increase plutonium pit production for the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile, officials want to study the possibility...
Today’s New York Times article “Which President Cut the Most Nukes?” does a public service by pointing out that contrary to his rhetoric, Obama has the lowest nuclear weapons dismantlement...
Santa Fe, NM Today, Dr. James (Jim) E. Doyle and Nuclear Watch New Mexico begin a collaborative project to assess and augment the nonproliferation programs of the National Nuclear Security...
Scots will vote on independence from the United Kingdom on Sept. 18, with polls showing the lead of anti-independence forces narrowing. If independence wins one declared goal of the Scottish...
Why Do DOE And LANL Refuse To Do A Pit Production Study? A recent Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report Manufacturing Nuclear Weapon “Pits”: A Decisionmaking Approach for Congress, August 15,...
On July 23, 2014, Los Alamos National Laboratory approved for public release an article titled Rethinking the Unthinkable, written by retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Houston T. Hawkins, with the...
US Department of Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz visited the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) recently and announced future recovery plans for WIPP and they include a target date to start...