We’ve been through this once before. In 2020, we organized a campaign to stop the planned release of tritium from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Our Beloved Community came through then, with more than 3100 signatures to our petition to the Department of Energy (DOE)…
ISSUE: Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) plans to expand their facilities for plutonium pit production — to increase the nation’s stockpile of nuclear weapons to 30 pits a year by 2026. It appears that this expanded pit production will not be included in the new Sitewide Environmental Impact Statement…
On March 11, the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) sent the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) a formal notice that the Lab will intentionally release up to some 100,000 curies of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen gas, beginning April 17, 2020. This massive radioactive venting is due to take place as northern New Mexico begins to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, and places a further burden on some of our most vulnerable and at-risk communities. At the same time DOE is ramping up nuclear weapons production and plans to cut cleanup at LANL nearly in half. We are asking for your help to call on our Congressional delegation, the EPA, and New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) directors to put an immediate halt and suspension to these planned tritium releases and increase in LANL plutonium pit production.
This week, “Oppenheimer” will open, a film that centers the creation and use of the atomic bomb through the story of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Go see the movie if it calls to you. But please also take time to learn about the other side of the story and what…
Your comments are needed for New Mexico's Triennial Review! Last day to submit comments: Wednesday, July 21.
"We know that the environmental violence our land-based and Native Peoples, ecologies and waters continue to endure from nuclear contamination will not end until the harm stops."
This has truly been a year like no other. Since the beginning of the COVID pandemic in March, Tewa Women United staff have worked hard to find creative solutions to respond to the needs of our communities throughout the Tewa homelands and Rio Arriba County. Our activities maintained connections and…
Indigenous Peoples’ Day has always been a celebration of collective resistance. Amid this crushing pandemic and uprisings against racism and police violence, its message endures. We Americans—Indigenous or not, on whichever side of the U.S. border—have to show up for each other: when we’re on social media, when we’re teaching history…
In March 2020, Nuclear Watch New Mexico publicized the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s (LANL) plans to intentionally release up to 114,000 curies of tritium, a radioactive isotope of hydrogen gas, beginning in April 2020. Public reaction was swift and outspoken – including this petition signed by…
Seventy-five years ago, the United States conducted two nuclear attacks against the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, devastating their populations and destroying their infrastructure. In the process of manufacturing and testing these weapons, civilians within downwind communities, nuclear workers, uranium miners and their families, and military personnel were also…
