What’s Wrong with WIPP by lajicarita By DON HANCOCK, Southwest Research and Information Center (SRIC) The world’s first geologic repository for military nuclear waste is making international news because of...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 4, 2014 Contact: Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch NM, 505.989.7342, c. 505.692.5854, jay@nukewatch.org Nuclear Weapons Budget Increased Nonproliferation and Cleanup Budgets Cut Good News: Wasteful Plutonium...
WIPP Update Feb 27 2014 – 13 Employees Contaminated I’ll remind us all that the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) site is NOT a National Security site. It is a...
The New York Times ran a WIPP story today, NUCLEAR WASTE REPOSITORY SET TO REOPEN AFTER LEAK, New York Times — February 26, 2014, By Matthew L. Wald This is a good example...
Let’s start with what we know. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is the Nation’s only operating geologic repository for nuclear waste. WIPP can legally only accept a very specific...
Budget Deal Mixed Bag for Nuclear Weapons Programs Planned Long-Term Trend Not Sustainable Following December’s budget deal Congressional appropriators have completed a one trillion dollar omnibus appropriations bill for...
Nuclear Weapons “Modernization” Will Cost One Trillion Dollars Over Thirty Years; Locally, Los Alamos Lab Cleanup and Job Creation Are Imperiled The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has just released...
Dear Fellow Travelers on the Long Road to Safety at WIPP: I am writing to you as a battle-weary compatriot. For so many New Mexicans, the merest mention of WIPP...
Northern New Mexico Needs to Wean Itself From Nuclear Weapons Santa Fe, NM – Today the Regional Coalition of LANL Communities issued a press statement supporting a state House memorial...
At the recent LANL Hazardous Waste Permit Hearings, the public was presented with two cross-sections of the current understanding of the geology under the Lab's largest nuclear waste disposal area, Tech Area 55. These cross sections are important because the NM Environment Department, with public input, will soon have to decide the final disposition of the over 800,000 cubic yards of radioactive and hazardous waste buried there. The options range from leaving the waste in place with some sort of cover to exhuming the waste.
When Jeff Bingaman replaced Pete Domenici as New Mexico’s senior Senator, environmentalists were pleased. But is Bingaman the new Domenici? Is he stepping into Pete’s radioactive shoes as chief procurer...
Last I looked, the Cold War ended 18 years ago. We won. OK, I used to think we won, but there is still a big debt that needs to be...