As we prepare for a Federal Register notice on environmental meetings on the impact of plutonium pit production at SRS and Los Alamos, this article is very timely.
“DOGE’s staff firing fiasco at the nuclear weapon agency means everything but efficiency”
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, April 16, 2025 – article linked here: https://thebulletin.org/2025/04/doges-staff-firing-fiasco-at-the-nuclear-weapon-agency-means-everything-but-efficiency/
Stay tuned for the notice on “scoping” meetings in Aiken, SC and around the country on the scope of the Programmatic EIS that DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) must prepare as we won a federal lawsuit on the matter. Us public interest groups and DOJ/NNSA negotiated a “settlement agreement” filed with the federal court on January 16, 2025, in which NNSA agreed to prepare the PEIS.
See the January 16, 2025 “settlement agreement” linked here. NNSA must finish the PEIS on environmental, safety and health impacts at DOE sites in 2.5 years from January 16, 2025.
Image: Proposed Sentinel ICBM missile, an unneeded and provocative ICBM that would have new plutonium pits (cores) in the new W87-1 warhead, if the program, which is far over budget, goes forward. Ya gotta wonder why DOG doesn’t have this debacle on the chopping block. If not, it looks like they are bowing to manufacturer Northrop Grumman and the NNSA contractors, such as Fluor, engaged in pit production.