Tag Archives: Los Alamos National Laboratiories (LANL)

New Mexico Nuclear Activists Brainstorm on How to Stop LANL, WIPP Expansion – Taos Enviro Film Festival – via Nuclear Hotseat

Posted on 2021/08/27 by nfield

Libbe Halevy Listen Here: Audio Player00:0000:00Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. Podcast: Download This Week’s Special Feature: New Mexico Nuclear Activists – On August 8, as part of the commemoration of the atomic bomb being dropped by the United … Continue reading →

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Report: Some Los Alamos nuclear waste too hazardous to move via Santa Fe New Mexican

Posted on 2021/08/04 by yukimiyamotodepaul

By Scott Wyland  Los Alamos National Laboratory has identified 45 barrels of radioactive waste so potentially explosive — due to being mixed with incompatible chemicals — that crews have been told not to move them and instead block off the … Continue reading →

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Plutonium Pit Production Lawsuit: Jay Coughlin, Marylia Kelley, Tom Clements – NH #523 via Nuclear Hotseat

Posted on 2021/07/01 by nfield

Listen Here: Audio Player00:0000:00Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. Podcast: Download This Week’s SPECIAL Feature: It’s not often that I prep a show’s interviews and then throw them out on Tuesday morning because something more important has happened … Continue reading →

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Plutonium mishap at Los Alamos National Lab accentuates pit production worries via Aiken Standard

Posted on 2020/07/14 by nfield

By Colin Demarest Fifteen workers at Los Alamos National Laboratory might have been exposed to plutonium, a potentially grave mishap that some industry observers and critics say portends trouble for plutonium pit production, a separate cross-country nuclear weapons mission. At … Continue reading →

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Scientists Say a Now-Dominant Strain of the Coronavirus Appears to Be More Contagious Than Original via Los Angeles Times

Posted on 2020/05/05 by nfield

By Ralph Vartabedian […] The new strain appeared in February in Europe, migrated quickly to the East Coast of the United States and has been the dominant strain across the world since mid-March, the scientists wrote.  In addition to spreading … Continue reading →

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Study: Savannah River pit hub could meet national demand for nuclear weapon cores　via Aiken Standard

Posted on 2020/04/08 by nfield

By Colin Demarest A proposed production complex at the Savannah River Site could by itself satisfy the looming military demand for plutonium pits — nuclear weapon cores — if circumstances so required, according to a new National Nuclear Security Administration … Continue reading →

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A nuclear explosive revelation via Morning Star

Posted on 2020/02/28 by nfield

Britain’s WMD warhead replacement is being undertaken in collaboration with the US behind the back of parliamentary scrutiny, writes DAVID LOWRY DEFENCE Secretary Ben Wallace issued a written statement late on Tuesday afternoon, asserting: “To ensure the government maintains an … Continue reading →

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State report: LANL lost track of 250 barrels of nuke waste via Santa Fe New Mexican

Posted on 2019/12/11 by nfield

The contractor that’s been in charge of Los Alamos National Laboratory’s operations for the past year lost track of 250 barrels of waste, while the company heading the legacy cleanup mislabeled and improperly stored waste containers and took months to … Continue reading →

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Ill Nuclear Workers’ Benefits Petitions Have to Be Reviewed in 6 Months. Some have been kept languishing for about a decade via ProPublica

Posted on 2018/12/01 by nfield

Rebecca Moss, Santa Fe New Mexican Ten years ago, a security guard at Los Alamos National Laboratory submitted a petition to the federal government seeking compensation and benefits for his fellow lab workers who were sick with cancer and believed that radiation … Continue reading →

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Half-life via the Santa Fe New Mexican and ProPublica

Posted on 2018/10/28 by nfield

By Rebecca Moss Chad Walde believed in his work at Los Alamos National Laboratory. Then he got a rare brain cancer linked to radiation, and the government denied it had any responsibility. […] There had been other funerals, even that month, … Continue reading →

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