Support Representative Garamendi’s NDAA Amendment for Plutonium Pit Accountability
In the face of continuing problems and escalating costs for expanded production of plutonium “pit” bomb cores for nuclear weapons, U.S. Congressman John Garamendi, of California, has offered a common ...
13 Jul 20224min
Holtec Buys Shutdown Nuclear Power Plants to Create New Spent Fuel Supply Chain for Proposed New Mexico Facility
Holtec International recently purchased two shutdown nuclear power plants in Michigan to create a supply chain of spent fuel rods for its proposed consolidated interim storage facility in southeastern...
7 Jul 20224min
WIPP to Stay Open Forever? Speak Up at the July 7 th WIPP Community Forum
Did you know that the Department of Energy (DOE) plans to continue disposing of plutonium-contaminated radioactive and hazardous waste in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) essentially forever? In...
30 Jun 20224min
Ralph Hutchinson on U.S. Absence from First Meeting of the States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
This week before the start of the First Meeting of States Parties for the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Vienna, three countries deposited their ratification documents with the United...
23 Jun 20224min
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?
16 Jun 20224min
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...
9 Jun 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...
2 Jun 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...
26 Mai 20224min
