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Nov 17, 2011From the Albuquerque Journal
Facing intense budget pressure, the U.S. Department of Energy should consider the equivalent of the military’s base closure process for its sprawling research lab complex, an internal agency review has recommended.
Two of those labs are in New Mexico, where the Department’s nuclear weapons program is a major employer.
The Department of Energy spends more money in New Mexico than any other state – $4.1 billion in 2010, the most recent year for which numbers are available. That money supports some 20,000 workers at Los Alamos and Sandia labs, where U.S. nuclear weapons are designed, manufactured and maintained.
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Marylia Kelley
When I first began
monitoring Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a working
scientist there told me, "Follow the money if you want to know
what is really going on." Look at the Department of Energy's
2012 budget request for the Livermore Lab and it becomes apparent
that PR has an inverse relationship to budget.
Some
89 percent of the funds are for nuclear weapons activities. Yet, more
than 89 percent of the press releases showcase programs like
renewable energy and science that receive less than 3 percent of
the spending. This has caused many to believe that Livermore Lab
is converting from nuclear weapons to civilian science.
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Tuesday, June 28, 2011
San Francisco Chronicle
Marylia Kelley
When I first began monitoring Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a
working scientist there told me, "Follow the money if you want to know
what is really going on." Look at the Department of Energy's 2012 budget
request for the Livermore Lab and it becomes apparent that PR has an
inverse relationship to budget.
Some 89 percent of the funds are for nuclear weapons activities. Yet,
more than 89 percent of the press releases showcase programs like
renewable energy and science that receive less than 3 percent of the
spending. This has caused many to believe that Livermore Lab is
converting from nuclear weapons to civilian science.
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For immediate release, Friday, June 24, 2011
For more information, contact Marylia Kelley, Executive Director, Tri-Valley CAREs, 925/443-7148 Scott Yundt, Staff Attorney, Tri-Valley CAREs, 925/443-7148
Federal Audit Reveals Safety Gaps, Cites Management Failure to Follow-up on Mandated "Corrective Actions"
LIVERMORE - The U.S. Department of Energy, Office of the Inspector General (IG) published the results of a major federal investigation this week. The audit, titled, "Implementation of Beryllium Controls at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory" (DOE/IG-0851) was released June 22, 2011. In it, the IG found that "actions necessary to resolve previously observed weaknesses had not been completed."
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June 24, 2011
By John Upton
New York Times
The world’s most-ambitious nuclear experiments have escalated at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Federal researchers there are seeking to fuse some of the lightest atoms
in the universe to study — and hopefully harness — the type of energy
produced by hydrogen bombs and the sun.
The tests were delayed six months while safety devices were installed to
protect workers from radiation at the National Ignition Facility, a
stadium-sized laboratory that contains 192 lasers trained on a target
the size of a BB. The goal is to generate temperatures of more than 100
million degrees to fuse hydrogen atoms and release nuclear energy.
Scientists describe this process, which they hope to achieve next year, as the creation of a miniature star on earth.
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From The IndependentThursday, December 30, 2010
Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) filed litigation in the federal court for the Northern District of California against the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) and its National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) for what it alleges are numerous failures to comply with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). FOIA requires federal agencies to respond to public requests for information within 20 days.
According to the lawsuit, in seven separate instances the DOE and NNSA failed to provide responsive, unclassified documents regarding operations at the agenciesí Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) as required by law. The information that is the subject of the litigation is overdue by time periods ranging from six months to more than three years.
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For more information, contact Scott Yundt, Staff Attorney, Tri-Valley CAREs, (925) 443-7148 Marylia Kelley, Executive Director, Tri-Valley CAREs, (925) 443-7148
For immediate release, Tuesday, December 28, 2010
This morning, Tri-Valley CAREs (Communities Against a Radioactive Environment) filed major litigation in the federal court for the Northern District of California against the U.S. Dept. of Energy (DOE) and its National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) for numerous failures to comply with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), which requires federal agencies to respond to public requests for information within 20 days.
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LIVERMORE -- The Fiscal Year 2011 Stockpile Stewardship and Management
Plan (colloquially known as the "Green Book"), obtained recently by
Tri-Valley CAREs, reveals that the U.S. Dept. of Energy National Nuclear
Security Administration (NNSA) foments internal plans significantly at
variance with the agency's public pronouncements and the Nation's
disarmament goals.
"The document demonstrates that the NNSA will
reach deeper and deeper into the taxpayers' pockets in the coming
decades, even as it jettisons scientific objectives and delivers less,"
charged Marylia Kelley, executive director of Tri-Valley CAREs, the
Livermore-based nuclear weapons watchdog organization. " What the plan
reveals about the National Ignition Facility (NIF) is shocking." (See
attached analysis for details.)
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Livermore Opens Its Doors to Outsiders
Long-Secretive Weapons Labs to Build Energy Research Center Where Government Scientists, Businesses Can Collaborate
By BENJAMIN PIMENTEL Found on WSJ.com; view here. Livermore, home to two major U.S. weapons laboratories, existed as a city of fences and secrets during the Cold War and for years afterward. Now, some of those fences are receding. Both of the city's weapons labs—Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories—are moving forward on plans to build a campus where government scientists and outside researchers can work together on clean-energy technology. ... But the open campus also has attracted critics. Marylia Kelley, of
Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment, an advocacy
group long opposed to the labs' nuclear-weapons development, says the
project could be "a green-washing, public-relations move" meant "to
give an imprimatur of environmental responsibility" to what she calls
"the very dirty work of researching and developing new and modified
nuclear bombs."
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Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010
By Martin Matishak
Global Security Newswire
WASHINGTON
-- The Obama administration yesterday unveiled a spending plan that
would increase funding for the U.S. National Nuclear Security
Administration to $11.2 billion in the next fiscal year (see GSN, Jan.
29).
The agency, a semiautonomous branch of the Energy Department, would
receive a 13.4-percent budget increase in fiscal 2011 to maintain the
country's nuclear stockpile and conduct nonproliferation activities
around the globe, according to the White House funding request.
More than $7 billion would be devoted beginning Oct. 1 to "weapons
activities," which ensure the safety and performance of the nation's
atomic stockpile. The amount is a $624 million increase from this year.
Another
$2.7 billion would be funneled to the agency's Defense Nuclear
Nonproliferation program, a hike of 25.8 percent above fiscal 2010.
That effort seeks to secure nuclear materials around the globe that
could be used for weapons and convert them for peaceful purposes.
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