Nuclear Safety Oversight Under Threat!

by Scott Yundt | Sep 15, 2025 | Blog, New Bomb Plants, Nuclear Weapons

The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB or Board) has safety oversight authority over the nuclear facilities at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), including Livermore Lab’s plutonium and tritium facilities.  Without urgent action in the...

Bay Area Representative Has Co-Sponsored House Resolution 317! Let’s keep up the momentum…

by Scott Yundt | Aug 29, 2025 | Blog, Nuclear Weapons

A team of Tri-Valley CAREs staff members, Scott Yundt, Tanvi Kardile, and Dash Orel (who is a constituent) teamed up with our colleague Maylene Hughes at Physicians for Social Responsibility to meet with Bay Area Representative Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10 Walnut Creek). ...

Lawrence Livermore Lab Main Site: Critical Environmental & Health Concerns (2022 Five-Year Review)

by Anoushka Raj, Environmental Program Manager and Scott Yundt | Aug 29, 2025 | Blog, Environmental Justice, Nuclear Weapons

Overview: A Legacy of Contamination in a Community’s Backyard Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s main site in Livermore, CA has a decades-long legacy of toxic and radioactive pollution. Past operations, from a Naval air station in the 1940s, plus decades of...

Plutonium Pit Lawsuit Recognized by the Nobel Peace Center! Check Out Our Video!

by Scott Yundt | Aug 14, 2025 | Blog, New Bomb Plants, Nuclear Weapons

Tri-Valley CAREs, South Carolina Environmental Law Project, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Savannah River Site Watch, and the Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition were honored to be featured at the Nobel Peace Conference held in Oslo, Norway on August 6th, the...

Solemn and Powerful Gathering at the Livermore Lab Gates on the 80th Anniversary of the US Bombing of Hiroshima

by Marylia Kelley and Scott Yundt | Aug 8, 2025 | Blog, Events, Nuclear Weapons

Around 100 people gathered at the Westgate entrance to Livermore Lab on the morning of Tuesday, August 6, 2025 to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. The theme of the event was, 80 Years of Nuclear Devastation: Remember our History, Reshape...

Fire at LLNL Sparks Community Concern Over Safety, Climate Risk

by Anoushka Raj, Environmental Program Manager | Jul 29, 2025 | Blog, Environmental Justice, New Bomb Plants, Nuclear Weapons

On Monday, July 21, a grass fire broke out around 1:00 p.m. near the intersection of Greenville Road and Patterson Pass Road on the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Main Site in Livermore, CA. According to the Watch Duty app, the fire spread across five...