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Livermore Lab’s Annual Report Card Reveals Expanded Plutonium Pit Work — and Persistent Safety Failures
What NNSA’s FY 2025 Performance Evaluation Report Tells Us About Lawrence Livermore Lab
Trump’s Plan to Pick Our Pockets to Fund Nuclear Weapons and the Department of War at Historically High Levels
On Friday, the Trump Administration began revealing its historically profligate Fiscal Year 2027 budget request to Congress. This is a summary of the “Top Line” numbers for “Defense,” which includes the Pentagon along with weapons programs in the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration.
Take Action to Support the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Today!
After years of advocacy from affected communities and advocacy groups, legislative action to strengthen the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) is closer than ever to victory. RECA provides partial compensation to communities across the country harmed by...
We Remember California Senator Dianne Feinstein
Today, as we learn of the passing of Senator Dianne Feinstein, we want to take a moment to reflect upon Tri-Valley CAREs’ long working relationship with her and her staff. Senator Feinstein leaves a long, immensely consequential, and complex legacy. Tri-Valley CAREs’...
Contained Firing Facility Accident at Livermore Lab
Tri-Valley CAREs recently uncovered the details of a serious accident at Livermore Lab’s Site 300 High Explosives Testing Facility outside of Tracy, California. Upon detonation, an over-pressurized experiment exploded beyond expectation and caught fire in the...
Bay Area Groups Mark Hiroshima and Nagasaki at Livermore Lab with Program Honoring Daniel Ellsberg and New Film Debut (Link is below…)
On the morning of Friday, August 4th, as thousands of employees drove past on their way into Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory…
KPFA News Interviews TVC: “Peace activists rally at Livermore Laboratory for nuclear disarmament, ahead of 78th anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima”
Peace activists rally at Livermore Laboratory for nuclear disarmament, ahead of 78th anniversary of the U.S. bombing of Hiroshima – Interviews with Scott Yundt and Marylia Kelley
Media Adv: Lab Hiroshima vigil to honor Ellsberg, Debut film
Contacts: Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, 925.255.3589 (cell) Grace Morizawa, Asian-Americans for Peace & Justice, 510.289.1285 For immediate release, August 2, 2023 Bay Area Groups to Mark Hiroshima and Nagasaki at Livermore Lab with Program Honoring Daniel...
August 4 Updates: Gathering at Livermore Lab; and Link for Daniel Ellsberg Tribute Film
We invite you to mark the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with Tri-Valley CAREs and other peace and justice groups that are part of the Livermore Conversion Project. Our 2023 event features a vigil at the Livermore Lab West Gate and a film tribute to...
Join us on Friday, August 4 at the Livermore Lab
We invite you to mark the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki with the Livermore Conversion Project, a collaborative of Bay Area peace groups including Tri-Valley CAREs. At this years’ event at the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab we will honor the life of our...
Save the Date: Join us for a Special Screening of the Oppenheimer Film in SF
You’re invited to a private pre-screening of Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film, Oppenheimer, on Wednesday, July 19, in San Francisco at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema (2550 Mission St.). This Bay Area event, which is scheduled just in advance of the film’s pubic release,...
Event Replay: Nuclear Fusion “Breakthrough”?
View the Zoom recording above or here of the recent panel event on June 8, 2023 hosted by Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy and featuring Marylia Kelley, Executive Director and Co-Founder of Tri-Valley CAREs! The expert discussion covered the history and nuclear...
Livermore Lab
Livermore Lab is one of two locations that designs every nuclear weapon in the U.S. arsenal. Much of the weapons work takes place at the Livermore Lab Main Site, located along Vasco Road and East Avenue. More than 90,000 people live in Livermore and nearly 8 million...
Site 300 priorities
Editor, I have lived in Tracy for many years, and because of the work of a non-profit group, Tri-Valley CAREs, I learned about Site 300, Livermore Lab’s high explosives testing range located on Corral Hollow Road near the new Tracy Hills housing development. Some of...
Virtual Panel on Nuclear Fusion “Breakthrough”? Featuring Tri-Valley CAREs Executive Director & Co-Founder, Marylia Kelley – June 8 – 11:00-12:15pm PST
Join us June 8 for this virtual panel – In December 2022, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory…
Livermore Lab Budget: Everything for Nukes, Pennies for Cleanup
As the United States debates paying its prior year bills (the debt) and some members of Congress want draconian cuts to social programs that make up less than 15% of the federal budget, military spending continues to spiral out of control. The President’s Fiscal Year...
Tri-Valley CAREs and Colleagues Recently Held a Congressional Staff Briefing on Plutonium Pits
You may have heard that Tri-Valley CAREs was recently in Washington, DC with the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) for its annual advocacy week – “DC Days 2023”. On Friday, April 28, Tri-Valley CAREs and colleague organizations put the “capstone” on DC Days...
DC Days 2023
Your Tri-Valley CAREs team has just returned from a consequential week in Washington, DC meeting with members of Congress and the Biden Administration. In DC, we were joined by 50 activists from other front-line communities around the country for the Alliance for...
Environmental awareness
Editor, Earth Day is an annual event that began in 1970 as a way to increase environmental awareness. This message has become even more relevant today. Tri-Valley CAREs and its Tracy members are delighted to participate in Tracy Earth Day 2023. We will have a booth...
Join us in Celebrating Tracy Day 2023!
Tracy will be holding an Earth Day Celebration on Saturday, April 29, 2023, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. next to Farmers Market on 9th Street and Central Ave, downtown Tracy. We invite you to come to Tracy's Earth Day event for some family fun. Together, we will...
Good Friday at Livermore Lab
The annual Good Friday Interfaith Witness at the Livermore Lab was a hybrid event this year. A couple dozen participants from the Ecumenical Peace Institute, Livermore Conversion Project, and Tri-Valley CAREs met at Livermore Nuclear Weapons Lab’s West Gate. Many more...
Announcing Our New Executive Director!
From the desk of Loulena Miles, board president… Dear Tri-Valley CAREs community, As our organization – and its crucial nuclear policy work – enter its 40th year, I have wonderful news to share that reflects both on our decades of success and our future achievements....
Your Team Heads to Congress
Tri-Valley CAREs is in a whirlwind of preparations for “DC Days” 2023. This 4-day event in late April brings activists from around the country to Washington, DC to speak truth to power to Congress and the Administration about the impacts of nuclear weapons on our...
Good Friday at Livermore Lab: A call for a nuclear weapon-free future
By MARILYN BECHTEL LIVERMORE, Calif.—On this Good Friday, as nuclear disarmament, peace, and justice advocates gathered in person and virtually at the gates of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for their annual Interfaith Service of Worship and Witness, the...
Thank You from Tri-Valley CAREs
Tri-Valley CAREs would like to thank everyone in the community who submitted comments on the Livermore Lab Draft Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement (SWEIS). The SWEIS process is intended to provide the public with analysis of the potential environmental...
Good Friday at Livermore Lab plus Live Broadcast
The annual Good Friday Interfaith Witness at the Livermore Lab will be a hybrid event this year. You are invited to join the Ecumenical Peace Institute, Livermore Conversion Project, and Tri-Valley CAREs at the Livermore Lab West Gate, at the corner of Vasco and...
Review of LLNL Management Reveals Concerns
| Posted by: Raiza Marciscano-Bettis Tri-Valley CAREs recently received the Fiscal Year 2022 Performance Evaluation Report (PER) for Livermore Lab in response to our Freedom of Information Act requests. Livermore Lab, like other U.S. nuclear weapons complex sites, is...
Government Releases 2021 “Performance Evaluation Reports” for its Contractor Managed Nuclear Weapons Complex Sites, Including Livermore and Los Alamos National Labs
Government Releases 2021 “Performance Evaluation Reports” for its Contractor Managed Nuclear Weapons Complex Sites, Including Livermore and Los Alamos National Labs Livermore Lab, like other U.S. nuclear weapons complex sites, is managed by private contractors. These...
Judge Rules Our Plutonium Pit Lawsuit Can Continue!
After months of waiting for a decision, the federal judge in our case (filed by Tri-Valley CAREs, the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition, Savannah River Site Watch and Nuclear Watch New Mexico) against the U.S. Energy Department has denied the defendant’s motions...
East Bay Members of Congress Call on NNSA to Extend Public Comment Period for LLNL Environmental Review
Three East Bay Members of Congress, John Garamendi, Eric Swalwell and Mark DeSaulnier, submitted a joint letter to the Administrator and Under Secretary for Nuclear Security, Jill Hruby, on February 9, 2023 requesting that the NNSA “make every effort to provide...
District Court Denies Department of Energy’s Motion to Dismiss Plutonium Pits Suit
In a win for public participation and environmental protection, the United States District Court of South Carolina denied the Department of Energy’s motion to dismiss a 2021 legal action filed by multiple citizen groups. The suit was prompted by the agencies’ failure…
Tri-Valley CAREs Celebrates the 2nd “Baniversay” of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
On Friday, January 20, 2023, Tri-Valley CAREs members gathered at the gates of Livermore Lab to observe the second anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. We brought instruments and banners that we opened up as the lab...