by Sophie Stroud | Jul 12, 2021 | New Bomb Plants, Nuclear Weapons, Press Releases
For immediate release, July 12, 2021For more information, contact Marylia Kelley, ANA Board President, [email protected], 925.255.3589 Today, more than thirty nuclear watchdog organizations sent an urgent letter to U.S. Energy Secretary Janet Granholm and the...
by Sophie Stroud | Jun 30, 2021 | TVC in the News
Source: Nuclear Hotseat Plutonium Pit (revered to above as the “core”) is the detonator at the heart of nuclear bombs — and the United States is planning to make up to 80 pits a year for NEW nuclear weapons, in addition to the 1,500 ready-to-use devices already in our...
by Sophie Stroud | Jun 29, 2021 | TVC in the News
Source: The State By Sammy Fretwell Four public interest groups sued the federal government Tuesday, seeking to stop construction of multi-billion dollar nuclear factories in South Carolina and New Mexico that would make components for new atomic weapons. Savannah...
by Sophie Stroud | Jun 29, 2021 | TVC in the News
Source: KPFA Radio The Pacifica Evening News, Weekdays Correction: Plutonium bomb cores (pits) are not placed into the warheads at Livermore Lab. The government’s plan involves sending plutonium pit material from Los Alamos Lab in NM to Livermore Lab in the Bay Area...
by Sophie Stroud | Jun 29, 2021 | TVC in the News
Source: ABC 4 News By Michelle Liu COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Watchdog groups are suing the Biden administration over plans to produce plutonium cores used in the nation’s nuclear stockpile. The groups argued in a federal lawsuit filed Tuesday that the Energy Department...
