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...
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...
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...
– DEPT. OF ENERGY HAD COMMITTED TO CLEANING UP ALL CONTAMINATION, NOW SAYS IT WILL LEAVE 98% OF CONTAMINATED SOIL NOT CLEANED UP – JUST WEEKS AFTER WOOLSEY FIRE BURNS...
apnews.com U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, writes to the DOE, “No one disputes the difficulty of retrieving and treating high-level waste from Hanford’s aging storage tanks. However, lowering...
By Sarah Halasz Graham An 85-gallon drum of radioactive waste leaked into its secondary container. Nearly two dozen waste containers were either mislabeled or not labeled at all. Officials failed...
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...
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: The environmental risks posed by irradiated fuel are extreme: As observed by the U.S. Court of Appeals, it has “the capacity to outlast human civilization as we know it and...
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...
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) On This Page: Current Events / Issues / Facility Description July 11, 2017. SRS Watch reports: U.S. DOE Documents Obtained via FOIA Request Confirm "Mission Need" to Expand "Dilute and...
Description and Current Mission The Nevada National Security Site (N2S2), formerly known as the Nevada Test Site, is a critical facility within the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) nuclear weapons...
Description and Current Mission The Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), located in north-central New Mexico, was founded during World War II as a secret laboratory for the Manhattan Project. This...
Description and Current Mission The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) is one of two laboratories responsible for the design of every nuclear weapon in the U.S. arsenal. It was established...
LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LAB CLEANUP LAWSUIT Nuke Watch New Mexico filed a lawsuit against Los Alamos National Labs and DOE in January of 2016. This lawsuit is over LANL and...
NukeWatch advocates for comprehensive cleanup at LANL over the Lab's proposed "cap and cover" approach to the more than 200,000 cubic yards of toxic and radioactive waste permanently buried in...
Through comprehensive research, public education and effective citizen action, Nuclear Watch New Mexico seeks to promote safety and environmental protection at regional nuclear facilities; mission diversification away from nuclear weapons...
Santa Fe, NM – Today the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced its choice for the new management and operating contract for the Los Alamos National Laboratory...
Today the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) announced: To achieve DoD’s [the Defense Department] 80 pits per year requirement by 2030, NNSA’s recommended alternative repurposes the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication...
Excerpts There is no explanation why the Department of Defense requires at least 80 pits per year and no justification to the American taxpayer why the enormous expense of expanded...
Call to action! Comments on WIPP Expansion Needed By April 3rd Informational Meeting Is March 8th New Mexico is under growing nuclear attack. · Plutonium pit production increases are...
On December 17, 2017, the Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a separate $1.4 billion contract for cleanup at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to Newport News Nuclear BWXT-Los Alamos,...
Santa Fe, NM On December 17, 2017, the Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a separate $1.4 billion contract for cleanup at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to Newport News...
In keeping with the Trump Administration’s recent controversial Nuclear Posture Review, today’s just released FY 2019 federal budget dramatically ramps up nuclear weapons research and production. The National Nuclear Security...
Testimony Calls Out Continued DOE Cost Estimating Mismanagement Given that DOE has challenges estimating almost all large projects, taxpayers must push to spend on cleanup first. Both nuclear weapons and...