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GOVERNMENT MEMO SLAMS BECHTEL FOR MALFEASANCE, SAFETY VIOLATIONS AT HANFORD NUCLEAR SITE

August 28, 2012August 28, 2018Environmental Impact, Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Security, Nuclear Waste, Press Releases

This is from our friends at Hanford Challenge (www.hanfordchallenge.org). Bechtel is the major operator of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Press Release Immediate Release For more information contact: Tom Carpenter, 206-419-5829...

Cost Comparison Debunks LANL’s Outrageous Cleanup Estimate

Can it possibly cost $29 billion to clean up 51 acres? (That’s $568.6 million per acre!) The answer is yes if the estimate comes from Los Alamos National Laboratory. NukeWatch...

Trinity Day — a good day to get money from the Fed?

July 17, 2012August 28, 2018Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Security, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

Please check out Stephanie’s blog Particle Beams “Luminous Quanta of Divine Intelligence…” dispelling the nuclear delusion Trinity Day — a good day to get money from the Fed? Batter my...

Lab lacks ability to estimate emergency response as it also underestimates risk

July 12, 2012October 21, 2025Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Weapons

The Health Safety and Security Office (HSS) of Safety and Emergency Management Evaluations performed this independent review to evaluate emergency response capabilities at the Lab and how the Lab maintained them in a state of readiness in case of a severe natural phenomena event. The review showed that LANL would have trouble responding quickly with the appropriate emergency response in the case of a serious natural event. As one of the conclusions states – “LANL does not have an adequate means for determining quickly whether an event occurring at the CMR facility, a criticality event at TA-55 PF-4 facility, or a severe natural phenomena event at either facility involves a significant quantity of HAZMAT and requires implementation of corresponding onsite protective actions or issuance of appropriate offsite protective action recommendations.”

It is still annual compensation paid for by the taxpayers

April 20, 2012December 11, 2023Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Security, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons, Press Releases

I’d like to respond to the news stories out lately concerning the Director’s salary at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Following our press release Wednesday, the Lab released their reply....

Two Upcoming Events

April 19, 2012August 28, 2018Environmental Impact, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Security, Nuclear Waste, Nuclear Weapons

Two upcoming events Sunday Mornings @ The Travel Bug April 22, Sunday, 11 am 839 Paseo de Peralta, Santa Fe Jay Coghlan, Executive Director Of Nuclear Watch New Mexico in...

Still Time to Comment on LANL’s Burning Desire for Expanded Weapons Production

June 28, 2011December 11, 2023Environmental Impact, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Nuclear Weapons

Ironically today (June 28) is the deadline for public comment under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) for concerned citizens to comment on a proposed ~$5 billion facility at the...

The Risk to Waste Stored at Area G

June 27, 2011October 21, 2025Environmental Impact, Los Alamos Nat'l Lab., Nuclear Safety

We pride ourselves here at Nuclear Watch New Mexico on trying to stick to the facts as we best we know them and not being alarmist. That said, the Las...

Mother Earth Gives Nuclear Renaissance a Black Eye

March 14, 2011May 6, 2025Environmental Impact, Nuclear Power, Nuclear Safety

Our hearts and prayers go out go out to the people of Japan. As Japan is faced with the possibility of nuclear meltdowns in five earthquake-damaged nuclear reactors, the U.S....

Once Again – It’ll Cost More and Take Longer

September 14, 2010August 28, 2018Environmental Impact

Decades of nuclear materials production at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Savannah River Site in South Carolina have left 37 million gallons of radioactive liquid waste in 49 underground storage...

CMRR is Key to Expanded Plutonium Pit Production

June 25, 2010October 22, 2025Nuclear Weapons

While being narrowly correct, LANL PR man Kevin Roark is misleading when he claims [in a June 25, Letter to the Editor of the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper] that...

Revised Estimates for Safer Gloveboxes Hurt Budget

June 24, 2010May 6, 2025Nuclear Safety, Nuclear Weapons

On the heels of a GAO report made public Monday, which stated that accounting procedures used by various branches of the U.S. nuclear weapons complex are preventing NNSA from pinpointing...

Curating the Stockpile: Remanufacturing Fogbank

June 9, 2010May 6, 2025Nuclear Weapons

I only now happened to run across the article below from the Los Alamos National Laboratory Nuclear Weapons Journal about how the remanufacturing of Fogbank was reestablished. As dated as...

Three Huge New Facilities Rebuild U.S. Nuclear Weapons Production Capacity

May 18, 2010August 28, 2018Nuclear Weapons

Modern nuclear weapons are comprised of three general types of components: plutonium pit primaries, uranium/lithium secondaries that are triggered by the primaries, and the 1,000’s of non-nuclear components that create...

A Compromised START

May 17, 2010August 28, 2018Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear Watch New Mexico is a staunch supporter of arms control treaties, particularly since they can be confidence building steps toward the long term goal of creating the nuclear weapons-free...

Obama Bails Out Arms Reduction Treaty by Dramatically Increasing Nuclear Weapons Budgets

May 14, 2010December 11, 2023Nuclear Security, Nuclear Weapons

Santa Fe, NM – Yesterday President Obama submitted the new bilateral Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with Russia to the Senate for ratification. At the same time he submitted a...

New Nuclear Facility – An Attempt to Divide and Conquer

May 11, 2010March 3, 2024Nuclear Security, Nuclear Weapons

During our March 3, 2010 CMRR public meeting in Los Alamos, the CMRR DOE Project Manager told us the the final estimate for the CMRR Nuclear Facility was scheduled for 2014. Additionally...

Coghlan Report from NPT Rev Con

May 4, 2010August 28, 2018Nuclear Weapons

I’m in New York City for the first week of the Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference that opened today (Monday May 3). Yesterday global citizens marched from Times Square to the...

The CMRR-Nuclear Facility Is All About Expanding Plutonium Pit Production Capacity

April 27, 2010December 11, 2023Nuclear Weapons

In response to a question by Senator Jeff Bingaman at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on April 14, 2010, NNSA Administrator Tom D’Agostino stated “We will not make pits...

Despite Non-Proliferation Pledge – $7B for Nuclear Arsenal

February 2, 2010August 28, 2018Nuclear Weapons

February 2, 2010 – Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman interviews Jay Coghlan of Nuclear Watch AMY GOODMAN: All forty Republican senators, as well as Joseph Lieberman, implied in a letter to...

Obama’s New Budget Increases Funding for Nuclear Weapons Production Facilities; Cuts Dismantlements

February 1, 2010August 28, 2018Nuclear Weapons

In the new budget request for 2011 the Obama Administration proposes to freeze discretionary domestic spending for programs such as education, nutrition, air traffic control and national parks for three...

Meet the Nuke Boss, Just Like the Old Boss!

January 20, 2010August 28, 2018Nuclear Weapons

While Obama’s rhetoric soars toward a grand nuclear weapons-free world, his Office of Management and Budget is getting ready to ask Congress for a 10% increase in research and production?...

Lab’s Cyber Security Still Not Trustworthy

November 16, 2009December 17, 2024Nuclear Security

A GAO Report released Friday the 13th found that “significant information security control weaknesses remain on LANL’s classified computer network. LANL had vulnerabilities in several critical areas, including (1) identifying...

Complete excavation of Area G now estimated at only $9.1 billion

November 13, 2009August 28, 2018Environmental Impact

Q: How much does it cost to cleanup a 65-acre, 50-year-old, nuclear weapons laboratory unlined dump full of low-level radioactive waste (LLW), radioactively contaminated infectious waste, asbestos contaminated material, transuranic...

Weapons Lab Director Paid Double the Salary of Nobel Peace Prize-Winning President Obama

November 4, 2009August 28, 2018Nuclear Weapons

Santa Fe, NM – On December 10 President Barack Obama will receive the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Norway for his beginning efforts to abolish nuclear weapons. The President is...