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 Marylia Kelley | Jan 9, 2024 | Blog, Nuclear Weapons, Past Event
January 22, 2024 marks the third anniversary of the entry into force of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Sixty-nine countries have ratified the Treaty so far, with additional countries undertaking that process this year. The TPNW currently has...
by Scott Yundt | Nov 22, 2023 | Blog, Nuclear Weapons
From Monday, November 27th to Friday, December 1st, the States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will meet at the United Nations in New York to review progress on the treaty’s implementation and agree on further action to strengthen it....
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 | Nov 2, 2023 | Blog, Nuclear Weapons
The progression toward a renewed nuclear arms race took another step forward today when Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law withdrawing Russia’s ratification of the global treaty banning nuclear weapons tests. “Russia’s action will only...
