Dec. 13—After almost two months of negotiation, a compromise in an environmental lawsuit about plutonium pit production seems imminent. U.S. District Judge Mary Geiger Lewis ruled in September the ...

Jan. 17—The National Nuclear Security Administration and anti-nuclear advocates have reached agreement in a lawsuit over the National Environmental Protection Act that could temporarily halt plutonium ...

Last week U.S. District Judge Mary Lewis Geiger, South Carolina, faulted the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Agency for ignoring the National Environmental Protection Act and ...

The U.S. has for almost a decade been on a cross-country nuclear weapons odyssey known as plutonium pit production. The project to pump out cores for nuclear warheads in South Carolina and New Mexico, ...

US nuclear weapon production sites violated environmental rules, federal judge decides A U.S. Judge has ruled that the National Nuclear Security Administration failed to properly evaluate its ...

SANTA FE, N.M. -- The National Nuclear Security Administration failed to properly evaluate its expansion of plutonium pit production at sites in South Carolina and New Mexico in violation of ...

The number of supercomputers the lab brought online in 2024 and 2023, which both help with modeling and simulation. The number of plutonium pits LANL is gearing up to manufacture annually. Los Alamos ...

SRS Watch is a non-profit public-interest organization located in Columbia, South Carolina, that monitors policies and programs of the U.S. Department of Energy, with a focus on the Savannah River ...

The Savannah River Site recently onboarded five apprentices as part of the inaugural Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility (SRPPF) class of Production Operator Apprentices. This development ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — The National Nuclear Security Administration failed to properly evaluate its expansion of plutonium pit production at sites in South Carolina and New Mexico in violation of ...