“In order to address serious domestic concerns [such as coronavirus], the United States must seek significant savings by reducing the Pentagon budget, ending endless wars, and returning to the arms...
“NNSA [is] shutting the public out, while steamrolling exorbitantly expensive expanded pit production…There is a clear need for a nationwide programmatic environmental impact statement to justify or not expanded plutonium...
This article from the Santa Fe New Mexican is based on NNSA’s annual Performance Evaluation Reports (PERs) on contractor performance at its 8 nuclear weapons sites. NukeWatch New Mexico successfully...
Nuclear watchdogs, government accountability advocates and other critics argue that the decision skirts requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act and a decades-old court order that included a mandate for...
“The Pacific was victimized in the past as we all know by the scores of nuclear weapons tests above ground, on the ground and underwater in the Marshalls. The consequences...
Controversy continues to brew following revelations of repeated shoreline collapses into the Detroit River of a property contaminated with uranium, PCBs and other dangerous chemicals from an abandoned Manhattan Project...
Rick Perry says Trump (and Obama) were ‘ordained by God’ to be president ARTICLE BY: DANIEL BURKE | cnn.com (CNN) Like a lot of evangelical Christians, Energy Secretary Rick Perry...
About a quarter of Navajo women and some infants who were part of a federally funded study on uranium exposure had high levels of the radioactive metal in their systems,...
ARTICLE BY: T.S. LAST | abqjournal.com SANTA FE – The U.S. Department of Energy’s inspector general is recommending that the department seek reimbursement of up to $300,000 in DOE grant money...
Today, lawyers for the Natural Resources Defense Council, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Savannah River Site Watch and Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment sent a second letter to Department of...
Public Interest Groups Challenge Plans to Fabricate Plutonium Pits for New, Unjustified Nuclear Weapons, at Los Alamos National Lab and Savannah River Site COLUMBIA, SC, USA, September 17, 2019 /EINPresswire.com/...
The Corrective Measures Evaluation Report for Material Disposal Area G, Consolidated Unit 54-013(b)-99, at Technical Area 54, Revision 3 was released in September 2011. It’s document numbers are ERID-206324, LA-UR-11-4910,...
At recent public forums, the Department of Energy and the Los Alamos National Laboratory claimed that cleanup is more than half complete. BY JAY COGHLAN | santafenewmexican.com What these staged events...
“DOE is simply not to be trusted. Period.” — Carlos Williams speaking about local cancer concerns. He has lived for thirty years five miles from the Portsmouth, Ohio uranium enrichment...
This article was originally published July 6, 2019 in the Santa Fe New Mexican Article Written by NukeWatch NM Volunteer: ALICIA SANDERS-ZAKRE The Department of Energy’s new attempt at “enhanced...
Over the last decade funding for the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL’s) nuclear weapons programs has increased 20%. However, funding for needed cleanup has remained flat at one-tenth of the...
BY SARAH LEBLANC | augustachronicle.com AIKEN — A forum regarding the Department of Energy’s proposed expanded production of plutonium pits at Savannah River Site was held Friday evening. About 70...
Jay Coghlan of Nuclear Watch New Mexico said the report “makes clear that DOE is blowing smoke when it says that it will produce 80 plutonium pits per year by...
Part 2 of NCR’s look at the toxic legacy of one nuclear weapons plant BY CLAIRE SCHAEFFER-DUFFY | ncronline.org Editor’s note: As the government invests in the modernization of the...
Falling short of the bare minimum in the eyes of the DOE is a far cry from where the public expects or needs LANL to be. The Albuquerque Journal Editorial...
“Falling short of the bare minimum in the eyes of the DOE is a far cry from where the public expects or needs LANL to be.” BY ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL EDITORIAL...
Posted By Scott Kovac Santa Fe, NM – Today the Trump Administration released more budget details for the Department of Energy and its semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration’s nuclear weapons...
At some point, DOE will have to admit that it has no idea what it will cost to cleanup the Cold War nuclear weapons complex sites. DOE should stop making...
NukeWatch Joins Suit To Stop WIPP Expansion On January 17, 2019, Southwest Research and Information Center (SRIC) and Nuclear Watch New Mexico (NWNM) filed an appeal in the New Mexico...
An inspector monitors radiations around containers at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2003 prior to shipping nuclear waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad. New Mexican file photo;...