“It is essential that current and former plant workers feel free to raise safety concerns with the NRC,” spokesman Neil Sheehan said. “They are (or were) at the plant on...
A group of anti-nuclear activists used data from Los Alamos National Laboratory to map places where plutonium contamination has been found in areas near the lab. Nuclear Watch New Mexico...
Who: Nuclear Watch New Mexico and chemist Dr. Michael Ketterer, Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Arizona University What: Nuclear Watch has mapped plutonium migration based on sampling data from Intellus,...
By Jay Coghlan, The Santa Fe Reporter | sfreporter.com EFF Designer Hannah Diaz Cover, March 13: “The Foilies” THE GREATEST FOILIE OF ALL The Reporter should stick around in its own back yard for...
Arms Race Accelerates with MIRVed Warheads Los Alamos Lab Cleanup Cut Ironically the day after the film Oppenheimer was awarded multiple Oscars, the Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security...
Arms Race Accelerates with MIRVed Warheads Los Alamos Lab Cleanup Cut FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, March 11, 2024 Jay Coghlan – 505.989.7342 | Email Santa Fe, NM – Ironically the day...
FEDERAL BUDGET NEWS Release of federal FY 2025 budget expected March 11 (it will initially be just topline numbers). Meanwhile on the FY 2024 budget: House and Senate Armed Services...
Sen. Heinrich is so proud of all of the nuclear weapons money in New Mexico. He is one of the chief congressional architects of expanded production of plutonium “pit” bomb...
FEDERAL BUDGET NEWS Half of the federal budget (including Energy and Water appropriations which funds DOE) shuts down January 19 and the other half February 2 if a Continuing Resolution...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, September 18, 2023 Jay Coghlan – 505.989.7342, c 505.470.3154 | Email Scott Kovac – c. 505.316.4148 | Email Santa Fe, NM – In an important win for...
Santa Fe, NM – In an important win for genuine cleanup at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) has rejected the Lab’s plans for...
Nothing Found It seems we can’t find what you’re looking for. Perhaps searching can help. QUICK SEARCH TitleLink Plutonium Pit Production Fact Sheet – July 2024View/DownloadWIPP March 2024 Fact Sheet/InfographicView/DownloadNew...
Money doesn’t talk, it swears. (Bob Dylan) Quick Facts Nuclear New Mexico • DOE FY 2024 budget in NM is $10 billion (double next state). – 75% core nuclear weapons...
Nuclear power is a trending topic lately. What’s missing from most of these conversations is the nitty gritty details of the nuclear waste produced from nuclear power plants, and how...
2018 Media NMED And EM-LA Present FY2019 Legacy Cleanup Priorities In Community Meeting Los Alamos Reporter, Dec 1, 2018, By Marie O’Neill Under public comment, Jay Coghlan, director of Nuclear...
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Alliance for Nuclear Accountability | March 8, 2023 ananuclear.org The Biden Administration is releasing its Fiscal Year 2024 federal budget on Thursday, March 9. It is expected to be a...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, February 8, 2023 | Joni Arends, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety – 505.986.1973 | EmailJay Coghlan – 505.989.7342 | Email Santa Fe, NM – The Department of...
Santa Fe, NM – The Department of Energy (DOE) will spend $9.4 billion dollars in New Mexico during this fiscal year 2023, 10% more than the State’s entire operating budget...
Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch New Mexico January 17, 2023 | Email GAO report: NNSA Does Not Have a Comprehensive Schedule or Cost Estimate for Pit Production Capability, January 12, 2023,...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, January 12, 2023 | Jay Coghlan – 505.989.7342 | Email Santa Fe, NM – Today, the independent Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a scathing report entitled NNSA...
Santa Fe, NM – Today, the independent Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a scathing report entitled NNSA Does Not Have a Comprehensive Schedule or Cost Estimate for Pit Production Capability....
The U.S. agency in charge of jumpstarting the production of key components for the nation’s nuclear arsenal is falling short when it comes to having a comprehensive schedule for the...
NEW IN BOOKS, FILMS & ART OF NOTE: A new book is out about Hanford, by Joshua Frank, co-editor of Counterpunch, Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place...
As part of a long, ingrained history, senior officials at the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) have repeatedly resigned to go to work for the nuclear weapons labs, the Department...