Tag Archives: plutonium pits

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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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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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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LANL cleanup faces $100M cut via Santa Fe New Mexican

Posted on 2020/02/18 by nfield

By Scott Wyland […] The agency’s preliminary “budget in brief” shows a proposed 46 percent reduction in funding for the lab’s environmental managemenet, which handles cleanup of legacy waste generated before 1999, including during the Manhattan Project and Cold War. … Continue reading →

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Another SC nuclear boondoggle could soon meet its end. This time it’s $7B in taxpayer money wasted via Charleston Post Courier

Posted on 2018/05/20 by nfield

COLUMBIA — It’s a familiar story in South Carolina: Nuclear contractors fail to produce a reliable schedule, start construction with just a fraction of design finished, and let pipes and other material corrode in storage under the watch of government … Continue reading →

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Safety concerns plague key sites proposed for nuclear bomb production　via USA Today

Posted on 2018/05/03 by nfield

  Patrick Malone, Center for Public Integrity The Department of Energy is scheduled to decide within days where plutonium parts for the next generation of nuclear weapons are to be made, but recent internal government reports indicate serious and persistent … Continue reading →

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Brief: Nuclear trigger production could resume at LANL via the Santa Fe New Mexican

Posted on 2016/01/24 by norma field

The Los Alamos National Laboratory could resume production of plutonium pit triggers for nuclear weapons. The Department of Energy endorsed lab changes listed by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, a Congressional oversight agency, the Albuquerque Journal reported. Plans also … Continue reading →

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ROCKY FLATS COLD WAR MUSEUM IS OUT IN THE COLDvia www.westward.com

Posted on 2015/12/21 by norma field

The former Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant was officially declared cleaned up – or as close to clean as it was going to get – ten years ago. That was fifteen years after the FBI led a pre-dawn raid on … Continue reading →

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Radiation Leak Linked to Los Alamos; Do We Really Want Biological Agents There? via Indian Country

Posted on 2014/10/03 by norma field

The cause of the radiation leak at Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in Carlsbad, New Mexico, is still unresolved, but we know that it started with Los Alamos National Laboratories (LANL) and ended at the WIPP, shutting that facility down … Continue reading →

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U.S. Plans to Ship Plutonium Bomb Cores Across Three States　via Environment News Service

Posted on 2013/01/30 by norma field

LIVERMORE, California, January 29, 2013 (ENS) – Environmental, legal and nuclear experts from California and New Mexico are holding a community forum Wednesday to reveal the “potentially illegal” new federal government plan to ship plutonium bomb cores across three western … Continue reading →

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