U.S. Spent $84,094 Dollars Per Minute on Nuclear Weapons Last Year
If you were in charge of allocating U.S. taxpayer money, would you invest $84,094 [dollars] per minute for nuclear weapons? What would your priorities be?
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Take Action! Support the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and Encourage the Media to Cover It
While you may not be able to travel to Vienna, Austria for the First Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, you can sign the online Statement on the Existential Threat of Nuclear Weapons.
9 Kesä 20224min
Texas Says Take Your LANL Waste Away
Decisions being made by federal and state agencies about the plutonium-contaminated waste stored at the Waste Control Specialists facility located on the Texas-New Mexico border may foreshadow how non-compliant waste may be stranded in the future.
2 Kesä 20224min
No Tritium Monitoring Required for LANL Plutonium Liquid Waste Treatment Facility
In November 2021, Los Alamos National Laboratory applied to the Environmental Protection Agency to begin construction of a new radioactive liquid waste treatment facility for transuranic, or plutonium contaminated, liquid waste from the Plutonium Facility.
26 Touko 20224min
Ongoing Seismic Concerns at LANL and Expanded Plutonium Pit Production
Plutonium operations at Los Alamos National Laboratory's Technical Area 55 are centered in the middle of the 36 square mile national nuclear weapons facility.
19 Touko 20224min
No additional money will guarantee 80 pits per year according to the Nuclear Weapons Council
Recently released Biden Administration budget documents reveal that for Fiscal Year 2023, beginning on October 1st, the Administration is proposing a Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) budget of $4.6 billion, an overall increase o 21 percent.
12 Touko 20224min
Cerro Pelado Fire and Los Alamos National Laboratory
As of Wednesday evening May 4th, the Cerro Pelado wildland fire was about five miles from the "back gate" of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL).
5 Touko 20224min
DOE Fails to Bring LANL's Plutonium Facility Ventilation System into Legal Compliance
Nearly 30 years ago, the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board began communications with the DOE about ventilation systems in nuclear facilities, saying that they must contain or confine radioactive materials during an accident or seismic event that might be followed by a fire.
28 Huhti 20224min
