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PLUTONIUM
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.
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Public Comment Period Open and Virtual Hearings Scheduled in the Court Ordered Plutonium Pit Production Plan Programmatic Environmental Review!
Opportunity to offer alternatives and comment on the plutonium pit support work planned at Livermore Lab and elsewhere. Plutonium pits are the radioactive cores of every nuclear weapon. Congress has...
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
Reports
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
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.
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