Communities Against a Radioactive Environment
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Tri-Valley CAREs stops nuclear weapons where they start. We watchdog the nuclear weapons complex and its Livermore Lab, one of two locations that develops all US nuclear bombs and warheads. Nuclear weapons pose one of the great social, economic, and ecological challenges of our time. We work toward their global abolition. |
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Tri-Valley CAREs was founded in 1983 in Livermore, California by concerned neighbors living around the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of two locations where all US nuclear weapons are designed. Tri-Valley CAREs monitors nuclear weapons and environmental clean-up activities throughout the US nuclear weapons complex, with a special focus on Livermore Lab and the surrounding communities.
Tri-Valley CAREs’ overarching mission is to promote peace, justice and a healthy environment by pursuing the following five interrelated goals:
- Convert Livermore Lab from nuclear weapons development and testing to socially beneficial, environmentally sound research.
- End all nuclear weapons development and testing in the United States.
- Abolish nuclear weapons worldwide, and achieve an equitable, successful non-proliferation regime.
- Promote forthright communication and democratic decision-making in public policy on nuclear weapons and related environmental issues, locally, nationally and globally.
- Clean up the radioactive and toxic pollution emanating from the Livermore Lab and reduce the Lab’s environmental and health hazards.
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Watchdog group describes fire damage at Site 300
by Scott Yundt | Sep 6, 2024 | Blog, TVC in the News
The Corral Fire that burned 14,168 acres south of Interstate 580 in early June also did significant damage to Site 300, where the blaze reportedly started, and to the infrastructure dedicated to the federally-mandated cleanup of the high-explosives testing range.
Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment (CAREs) — a watchdog group that monitors activities at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Site 300, LLNL’s explosives test facility along Corral Hollow Road southwest of Tracy – sought a meeting with lab officials following the Corral Fire to request an update on the status of groundwater cleanup at the site.
“We called for one of those meetings, and in the agenda, we asked for them to give us an update on how the fire affected the cleanup,” said Scott Yundt, executive director of Tri-Valley CAREs, referring to the June 25 meeting with LLNL staff.
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“We’re paying for our own annihilation but nobody thinks about it”
BY MARILYN BECHTEL, PEOPLE’S WORLD
Nuclear bomb testing by the U.S. in the 1950s is estimated to have killed at least a half million Americans. | YouTube screenshot
LIVERMORE, Calif. – “They don’t want peace. Why? Because peace doesn’t make money.” Those words were spoken here at the recent demonstration against the production of thermonuclear weapons at Livermore Labs.
As peace activists gathered around the world to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the U.S. nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, honoring the hundreds of thousands killed or severely injured and demanding the weapons be abolished, over 100 demonstrators assembled at the West Gate of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of two locations designing and developing every nuclear weapon in the U.S. arsenal.
Nuclear danger
Editor,
On Tuesday, August 6, 2024, the world will commemorate the 79th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, Japan.
As we stop in our busy lives to reflect on the horrors of Hiroshima, nuclear experts inform us that the danger of nuclear war has never been closer. Missiles continue to be deployed to the Ukraine war, as well as Israel and Palestine have been left in ruins with tens of thousands of dead. Worldwide, over 10,000 nukes threaten to end human civilization. We are at a critical place where nuclear danger keeps escalating. Fortunately, there is also escalating pressure for global nuclear disarmament.
Tri-Valley CAREs wants to commemorate the victims of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and all victims of war and violence. We want to educate for peace and non-violent conflict resolution by gathering at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab – West Gate, on Tuesday, August 6, 2024. The event will be followed by a traditional Japanese Bon Dance, inviting our ancestors to join us, and then a nonviolent witness and direct action for those who so choose.
You are invited and welcome to come and join us on this important date. For more information visit us at www.trivalleycares.org. Thank you!
By Raiza Marciscano, Tracy
End the nuclear threat
Editor,
By Aidee Pressley, Santa Rosa
Back from the Brink, at Livermore Lab…
On August 6, the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, all are welcome to join a rally and demonstration at the gates of Lawrence Livermore National Lab. The event is called, “Back from the Brink: The Imperative of Nuclear Abolition.” Starting at 8:30 a.m. at the corner of Westgate Dr. and Vasco Rd., participants will hear from distinguished speakers on the dangers, threats, and risks of nuclear weapons development and nuclear war. These will include author and journalist Norman Solomon, social activist Patricia Ellsberg (wife of recently deceased Daniel Ellsberg), Reverend Monica Cross from the California Poor People’s Campaign and Scott Yundt of local Livermore Lab watchdog group, Tri-Valley CAREs. Participants can join in a traditional Japanese bon dance, hear songs from Andrea Prichett and join a non-violent direct action in protest of the ongoing proliferation of provocative nuclear weapons activities conducted by our government at Livermore Lab. Speak up for peace, justice and a healthier world! See https://trivalleycares.org/2024-hiroshima-commemoration-events for more info.
By Scott Yundt, Oakland
Press Releases
Silent Fallout
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, August 7, 2024
National and Bay Area Film Contacts:
Adrienne Uthe, [email protected] 715.418.1614
August 9 showing, Sherry Larsen-Beville, [email protected]
August 10 showing, Chizu Hamada, [email protected]
August 11 showing, Scott Yundt, [email protected]
“Silent Fallout”
Groundbreaking Japanese Film Uncovers U.S. Nuclear Testing Secrets;
Director Hideaki Ito is in the Bay Area to Show Award-Winning
Documentary on August 9 (in English), August 10 (in Japanese), and
August 11 (in English)
OAKLAND & BERKELEY, CA – Silent Fallout proudly announces the North American
screening tour of “Silent Fallout,” an award-winning documentary by acclaimed
Japanese director Hideaki Ito.
This profound and moving film has already received international acclaim, winning
Outstanding Achievement at the Swedish International Film Festival, Best Editing at
the Maverick Film Awards (UK), and Best Story at the Toronto Documentary Feature
& Short Film Festival (Canada), among other honors, including at U.S. film festivals.
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Press Release: NNSA Delays Urgent Research on Plutonium “Pit” Aging While Spending Tens of Billions on Nuclear Weapons Bomb Core Production
by | Apr 17, 2024 | Press Releases
Savannah River Site Watch
Tri-Valley CAREs
Nuclear Watch New Mexico
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, April 17, 2024
Contact: Tom Clements, SRS Watch, 803.240.7268, [email protected]
Scott Yundt, TVC, 415.990.2070, [email protected]
Jay Coghlan, 505.989.7342, [email protected]
Nearly three years after filing a Freedom of Information Act request, the public interest group Savannah River Site Watch has finally received the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA’s) congressionally-required “Research Program Plan for Plutonium and Pit Aging.” However, the document is 40% blacked out, including references and acronyms. Plutonium “pits” are the radioactive cores of all U.S. nuclear weapons. The NNSA claims that potential aging effects are justification for a ~$60 billion program to expand production. However, the Plan fails to show that aging is a current problem. To the contrary, it demonstrates that NNSA is delaying urgently needed updated plutonium pit aging research.
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Media Advisory- Livermore Lab Investigated by the Department of Energy for a Contamination Problem, Both On and Offsite at a Worker’s Private Home
by | Jan 30, 2024 | Press Releases
In a January 24th letter sent by the Department of Energy’s Office of Enterprise Assessments to Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC (Livermore Lab’s management entity), the DOE office announced that it is opening an investigation into an April incident in which radioactive contamination from the nuclear weapons lab was found on and off-site.
The letter is scant on details, however it refers to an otherwise previously undisclosed, “March 2023 loss of contamination control and the discovery of contaminated property both on and offsite, including at a Lawrence Livermore National Security worker’s residence, on April 8, 2023.”
Tri-Valley CAREs, a community-based watchdog group that monitors Livermore Lab, expressed concern at the delay of informing the public of the existence of the contamination problem and the remaining lack of detail about the extent of the contamination.
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Med Adv: Actions Celebrate Treaty in Livermore, Across US
Tri-Valley CAREs and Groups Across U.S. Celebrate the ‘Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear
Weapons,’ on Anniversary of its Entry-Into-Force; Call on U.S. to Sign
Events Scheduled from the Pacific to the Atlantic and Throughout the Middle
WHAT: January 22, 2024 marks the third anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Seventy countries have ratified the Treaty so far, with additional countries undertaking that process this year. The TPNW currently has ninety-two signatory countries. The Treaty’s rising membership reflects a growing consensus among most of the world’s countries that the extreme threat nuclear weapons pose to all humanity is intolerable.
WHO: Dozens of groups across the country will mark this third TPNW “Baniversary” with actions at nuclear weapons labs and productions sites, military bases, congressional offices, and other locations to educate decision-makers and the public about the Treaty and hold the U.S. government accountable for being on the wrong side of history with its proliferation-provocative nuclear buildup. Events are planned in CA, PA, ID, NM, TN, KC, WI, AZ, and VA to name just a few. Each group is conducting media outreach.
In Livermore, CA, Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) will sponsor a banner holding event at a nuclear weapons lab presently developing a new warhead for a new ICBM (the W87-1), a new warhead for a new air-launched cruise missile (the W80-4), and a modification of it for small attack subs that do not currently carry nuclear warheads (the W80-4 ALT, SLCM-N). At Livermore Lab, more than 80% of its annual $2 billion budget is spent on nuclear weapons activities.
•THE EVENT AT THE LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY •
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