Some recent articles on plutonium and related investments in NM

September 26, 2019

Dear colleagues --

Of possible interest.

The topic in all these articles is the proposed $13 billion capital investment plan in new and renewed facilities at LANL led by plutonium infrastructure, and LANL's plans for additional highways and a new "megabridge" in an attempt to overcome one of the site's inherent problems (it wouldn't work).

• Group seeks impact statement for lab expansion plan, Los Alamos Monitor, Sep 23, 2019
• 'No Plans for Bridge’, Los Alamos Monitor, Sep 23, 2019
• Our View: Second road to lab lined with concerns, Santa Fe New Mexican editorial, Sep 21, 2019
• Mello Discusses LANL Plutonium Dilute & Dispose Program, Lab Expansion Plans At Capitol Town Hall Meeting, Los Alamos Reporter, Sep 20, 2019
• Nuclear disarmament group criticizes proposal to produce more plutonium ‘pits’, Santa Fe New Mexican, Sep 17, 2019
  
• A tall order: Bridge for Los Alamos road could be nation’s highest, Albuquerque Journal, Sep 15, 2019
• LANL revives talk of new route to Hill, Santa Fe New Mexican, Sep 14, 2019
  
• Los Alamos lab plans $5 billion of work on old [and new] buildings over 5 years, Santa Fe New Mexican, Aug 26, 2019
• National lab details $13B in building plans over next decade, Associated Press, Aug 17, 2019
• LANL officials detail potential building boom, Albuquerque Journal, Aug 9, 2019

Background materials are as you know at http://www.lasg.org/MPF2/first_page.html.

Greg Mello