Issues

New bomb plants

National Network of Groups at Contaminated Nuclear Weapons Sites Calls for New Leadership to Head Environmental Management at U.S. Department of Energy

Jul 12, 2021

For immediate release, July 12, 2021For more information, contact Marylia Kelley, ANA Board President, marylia@earthlink.net, 925.255.3589 Today, more than thirty nuclear watchdog organizations sent...

Lawsuit Filed Against Biden Administration Over Nuclear Bomb Core Production Plans

Jun 29, 2021

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 29, 2021 Media Contacts: Leslie Lenhardt, South Carolina Environmental Law Project, (843) 527-0078, leslie@scelp.org Marylia Kelley, Tri-Valley CAREs, in CA, (925)...

South Carolina Environmental Law Project, Nuclear Watchdogs from Across the U.S. to Hold Virtual Press Conference

Jun 20, 2021

MEDIA ADVISORY FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 24, 2021 WHAT: Public interest groups will hold a Zoom press conference for a major announcement of a forthcoming legal action as the U.S. Department of...

PLUTONIUM

Since its inception in 1952, Livermore Lab has used large quantities of plutonium, the radioactive core of nuclear weapons. Plutonium from the Lab has been found in the community in the air, in the soil in local parks, and in the sludge at the City sewage plant.

In 2005, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) increased the plutonium storage limit at Livermore Lab to 3,080 pounds, enough for about 300 nuclear bombs.

Tri-Valley CAREs works to terminate plutonium activities at Livermore Lab. Recently, we won a partial victory when DOE agreed to de-inventory most of the Lab’s plutonium by the end of 2012. Unlike DOE, we advocate stopping all plutonium experiments at Livermore Lab, including those planned in the National Ignition Facility mega-laser. We also aim to hasten its removal date and to ensure that Livermore Lab’s plutonium is never again used in nuclear weapons.

Factsheets

Fact sheets for the “Complex Transformation” National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) hearings:

Complex Overview
Plutonium
Alternatives
All fact sheets as a single pdf

September, 2007 – The “Complex 2030” Plan to Make New Plutonium Pits and Build New Bombs

April, 2007 – More information about Complex 2030

November, 2005 – Plutonium in Livermore: In the News and Other Sources

November, 2005 – Plutonium at Livermore Lab Endangers the Bay Area and Central Valley

February, 2002 –Plutonium And The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory: Past, Present And Future

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Reports

February 28, 2007 – Plutonium Sludge Case Study

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Press Releases

January 28, 2013 – Livermore Lab at the Crossroad

June 6, 2012 – Key Congressional Appropriations Amendment Passage Supports Needed Nonproliferation Program Over Troubled Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Scheme

May 28, 2009 – National Ignition Facility Ceremony Masks Serious Technical, Scientific, Environmental and Nuclear Weapons Policy Questions

April 6, 2006 – Community Group Hails Decision To Remove Deadly Plutonium From Livermore Lab In Heavily Populated Bay Area; Outlines Key Unresolved Issues

November 14, 2002 – Community Groups Applaud State Health Department Plutonium Report; Call On Livermore Lab/Doe To Fund Recommended Followup

May 17, 2002 – Energy Dept. Drops Plan to Truck Plutonium to Livermore, CA and Savannah River, SC in Unsafe, Uncertified Containers

April 26, 2002 – Documents Reveal Energy Dept. Plan To Truck Rocky Flats Plutonium To Savannah River, Lawrence Livermore In Unsafe Containers

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Petitions

Tri-Valley CAREs new petition to compel adequate funding to clean up toxic and radioactive contamination at Livermore Lab

Click For Our PETITION to Prevent the Transport of Plutonium Bomb Cores Back and Forth Between Los Alamos and Livermore

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Technical Comments & Letters

October 10, 2012 – Group Comments on Draft Surplus Plutonium Disposition Supplemental Envronmental Impact Statement

June 18, 2012 – Memorandum Regarding Livermore Lab Main Site Pipeline Extension Work Plan

September 29, 2011 – Comments on the TFA-West Draft-Final Addendum to the Remedial Design Report for Treatment Facility A: Arroyo Seco Pipeline Extension

Lethal Nuclear Legacies

Part of the hidden history of nuclear weapons involves the massive toxic and radioactive contamination that accompanies nuclear development, at Livermore Lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, throughout the U.S. nuclear weapons complex, and in other nations.