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 and Marylia Kelley | Mar 20, 2024 | Blog, New Bomb Plants, Nuclear Weapons
Last week President Biden sent his Fiscal Year 2025 budget request to Congress. While this general fact made the news; many media outlets failed to highlight that the U.S. military defense budget for the coming fiscal year is approaching a trillion dollars. The...
by Scott Yundt | Mar 1, 2024 | Blog, New Bomb Plants, Nuclear Weapons
The just released National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) reports evaluating contractor performance reveal serious scheduling delays on Livermore Lab’s nuclear warhead programs that will likely lead to cost overruns, detail the plutonium pit production support...
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 | Nov 3, 2023 | Blog, Green Lab, New Bomb Plants, Nuclear Weapons
Today the National Nuclear Security Administration released the Final Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for Continued Operations of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (SWEIS) that purports to analyze all of the potential impact to the environment of the Lab...
by Scott Yundt | Oct 3, 2023 | Blog, New Bomb Plants, Nuclear Weapons
Dear Tri-Valley CAREs members and friends, Here is a time-critical opportunity for you to influence the federal nuclear weapons budget. Because the government did not shut down, the House scheduled vote for today and tomorrow on H.R. 4394, the House Energy and Water...
