by Scott Yundt | Apr 17, 2024 | Blog, Past Event
KQED Plus (SF Bay Area PBS Affiliate) to present the California broadcast premiere of “Television Event,” a new documentary on how the most controversial, most watched made-for-TV movie of all time, “The Day After” (1983), shook-up America, rattled President Reagan...
by Scott Yundt | Mar 22, 2024 | Blog, New Bomb Plants, Nuclear Weapons
The Administration’s Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has been released and it tops $2.5 billion for the first time. The Lab’s overall budget is up 5% over the FY24 Annualized Continuing Resolution (a measure of...
by Scott Yundt | Feb 1, 2024 | Blog
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...
by Scott Yundt | Jan 26, 2024 | Blog
In its annual announcement this week, the formidable Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist called upon its Executive Chair, former CA governor Jerry Brown, along with Bill Nye the Science Guy, famous for his long standing educational science TV show, to reset the “Doomsday...
by Scott Yundt | Jan 26, 2024 | Blog, New Bomb Plants, Nuclear Weapons
Lawrence Livermore National Lab’s Superblock is home to its Plutonium Facility, which is a couple of hundred yards from the fence line and is visible from nearby homes. Recently the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB), an independent federal agency with...
by Scott Yundt | Jan 25, 2024 | Blog
On January 22, 2024, the third anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, Tri-Valley CAREs members braved the rain to bring attention to the treaty at the gates of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The event took...
