Nukewatch Quarterly Fall 2020
The Associated Press reports that, “The National Nuclear Security Administration says it doesn’t need to do an additional environmental review for Los Alamos National Laboratory before it begins producing [plutonium cores] for the nation’s nuclear arsenal because it has enough information. Watchdog groups are concerned about the announcement, saying the plutonium pit production work will amount to a vast expansion of the lab’s nuclear mission and that more analysis should be done. Los Alamos is preparing to resume and ramp-up production of the plutonium cores used to trigger nuclear weapons….” Author and activist Dr. Helen Caldicott called the decision “Absolute madness!” Greg Mello, Director of the LosAlamos StudyGroup said of the decision, “The notion that comprehensive environmental analysis is not needed for this gigantic program is a staggering insult to New Mexicans and an affront to any notion of environmental law and science.”
—Associated Press; and Los Alamos Study Group, Sept. 2, 2020
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