Love and Loss in the Jemez
We’re lucky in that it appears Los Alamos Lab has dodged the bullet with respect to the Las Conchas Fire, but I do want to say something about 100,000 acres...
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Lab Tries To Ship Explosives on Commercial Airline
KOB TV 4 broke the story and is still has the only account as best as I can tell. Read report and see video here. Los Alamos National Laboratory sent...
MEDIA ADVISORY – South Carolina Environmental Law Project and Nuclear Watchdogs Hold Virtual Press Conference
Public interest groups will hold a press conference for a major announcement of a forthcoming legal action as the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration forge ahead with plans to drastically expand production of plutonium pits, the cores of nuclear weapons, at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina and the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.
LANL Gestures to Gas Shortage
Although shutting down LANL would almost make up for the shortage in gas affecting northern New Mexico, it is not quite that equitable. LANL and the Los Alamos town site have their own dedicated gas pipeline coming from the NW San Juan Basin, in New Mexico. Whereas Albuquerque, Santa Fe, Espanola, Taos etc are fed natural gas from the Permian Basin gas fields in Texas. Therefore it is questionable that curtailing operations (which cost taxpayers ~$6 million/per day) at LANL helps to relieve gas supplies in northern New Mexican communities.
URGENT ACTION NEEDED to Help Protect the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board!
Congress must act to keep the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) from losing its quorum on October 18. We need YOUR help to get them to take action in...
COMMUNITIES FOR CLEAN WATER: LANL Radioactive Tritium Venting Fails to Provide Transparency, Assurance, and Respect for Local Communities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 18, 2025 Santa Fe, NM — As NNSA and LANL continue operations to depressurize Flanged Tritium Waste Containers, Communities for Clean Water (CCW) calls out federal...
First of four containers of tritium waste at LANL has been vented
The first of four flanged tritium waste containers awaiting removal from Los Alamos National Laboratory has been vented, the New Mexico Environment Department announced Tuesday afternoon. By Alaina Mencinger amencinger@sfnewmexican.com |...
New Mexicans Can Save the DNFSB; Contact Our Senators Today
From our friends at Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety: The independent Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board has been dwindling from a five-member board to one member and may disappear if...
DOE and LANL Silence Public and Tribal Community Member Voices While Pushing Radioactive Tritium Venting
For Immediate Release: August 22, 2025 Contact: Kalyn Mae Finnell, Coordinator, Communities for Clean Water Los Alamos, NM — This week’s so-called “public meeting” regarding Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) proposal to vent...
August 6th U.S. Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima Commemoration in Santa Fe
Eighty Years Later, it is Beyond Time to Get Rid of Nuclear Weapons. Last week on August 6, 2025, the 80th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, community...
Santa Fe New Mexican MY VIEW – 80 years on: The immorality of nuclear weapons
By John C. Wester, SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN | August 5, 2024 santafenewmexican.com Greetings New Mexicans. The lord’s blessings upon you. I am writing to you from Hiroshima, Japan, on the...
LANL Expands Nuclear Bomb Production, Rejects Cleanup, Still Plans to Release Tritium
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, August 3, 2025 Contact: Scott Kovac – 505.316.4148 | Email Santa Fe, NM – Eighty years after the first radioactive waste was buried at the Los Alamos National...
Planned Nuclear Weapons Activities Increase to 84% of Lab’s Budget; All Other Programs Cut
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, June 30, 2025 Contact: Scott Kovac – 505.316.4148 | Email The Department of Energy and Los Alamos National Laboratory have released the LANL congressional budget request for the...
Planned Nuclear Weapons Activities Increase to 84% of Lab’s Budget; All Other Programs Cut
The Department of Energy and Los Alamos National Laboratory have released the LANL congressional budget request for the upcoming fiscal year, 2026, which begins on October 1, 2025. The request...
NukeWatch in DC Lobbying for Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
Your Nuclear Watch New Mexico team has just returned from a weeklong trip to Washington D.C. (we went so you don’t have to!). The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) hosts...
Victory! Proposed Tritium Venting by LANL Halted for Now Due to Community Pressure
Proposed Tritium Venting by Los Alamos National Lab Postponed Indefinitely after Community Pressure THANK YOU to the over 2,500 of you who signed our Petition to Deny LANL’s Request to...
JOIN US: Upcoming Virtual Workshops on the Nationwide Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement
JOIN US: Virtual Workshop On the Nationwide Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement on the Expanded Production of Plutonium “Pit” Bomb Cores Public comments help increase transparency and safety. It is crucial...
NNSA’s Nuclear Weapons Programs Slated for 53% Increase
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, June 3, 2025 Contact: Jay Coghlan – 505.989.7342 | Email Santa Fe, NM – Topline budget figures for the Department of Energy (DOE) have been released under...
Lawsuit Compels Nationwide Public Review of Plutonium Bomb Core Production
AIKEN, S.C. — Today the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency within the Department of Energy, published a formal Notice of Intent in the Federal Register...
Lawsuit Compels Nationwide Public Review of Plutonium Bomb Core Production
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, May 9, 2025 Media Contacts: Ben Cunningham, Esquire, SCELP, 843-527-0078, ben@scelp.org Queen Quet, Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition, 843-838-1171, GullGeeCo@aol.com Tom Clements, Savannah River Site Watch, 803-834-3084, tomclements329@cs.com...
NNSA issues plans to assess pits environmental impact
“This programmatic environmental impact statement that we fought long and hard for empowers citizens to tell policy makers what they think about decisions being made in their name,” Jay Coghlan,...
Sign the Petition to Deny LANL’s Request to Release Radioactive Tritium into the Air to Governor Lujan Grisham and New Mexico Environment Department
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) plans to begin large releases of radioactive tritium gas any time after June 2, 2025. The only roadblock is that LANL needs a “Temporary Authorization”...
Organization Links to Resources on LANL Tritium Release:
CONCERNED CITIZENS FOR NUCLEAR SAFETY – nuclearactive.org COMMUNITIES FOR CLEAN WATER – ccwnewmexico.org/general-2 NUCLEAR WATCH NEW MEXICO – nukewatch.org FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN – fireonthemountain.xyz Related Reports: Arjun Makhijani: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/6418a35a30fed803c21f2bb1/t/67f56186a8839051f6ccd219/1744134535700/Rainfall+implications+of+Los+Alamos+tritium+venting+proposal+-+interpretation+of+modeling+results+Arjun+Makhijani+final+2024-03-28.pdf...
Find Out the Facts & Sign the Petition: Why NMED Should Deny LANL’s Request for Tritium Releases
Why NMED Should Deny LANL’s Request for Tritium Releases The Los Alamos National Laboratory plans to begin large releases of radioactive tritium gas any time after June 2, 2025. The...
Nuclear Nightmare: Meet America’s New B61-12 Gravity Bomb
What makes the B61-12 particularly impressive is the bomb’s ability to adjust its destructive yield depending on the operational conditions and demands. By Stavros Atlamazoglou, National Interest | March 26, 2025...