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May 14, 2026 Bulletin 381: Last-minute reminder: hearing THIS EVENING in Santa Fe on NNSA's pit production choices; people far away can attend virtually Contribute if you can! Our work depends on you!
Permalink for this bulletin. Please forward! Simple home page. Detailed home page. Press releases. Bulletins. Letters. Plutonium pit production. Contact us. Office phone (best for general inquiries): 505-265-1200. To subscribe to this list send a blank email here. To unsubscribe send a blank email here. To subscribe to our New Mexico Activist Leaders listserve send a blank email here. Please endorse the "Call for Sanity, Not Nuclear Production" if you have not done so. Ukraine war updates, analysis. Prior Bulletin: 380 (5/6/26): Comments to the National Nuclear Security Administration, the public, and media on NNSA's pit production choices right now Dear friends and colleagues -- My apologies for this late reminder. Tonight's hearing will be at the Santa Fe Farmer's Market, 1607 Paseo de Peralta, and will start with an open house/poster session from 5:00-5:30 p.m., followed by the formal hearing from 5:30-8:00 p.m. We expect that speakers will be allotted 3 minutes to speak, on a first-come, first-speak basis. There will also be a virtual attendance option, which we do NOT recommend if you live anywhere near the actual, in-person venue:
I (Greg) have just returned from Livermore California, where I spoke at a similar meeting on May 12th. My comments, which were also handed out to many of the attendees, are here. There are many observations I would like to make here which might be helpful. It seems better to defer those until after tonight's hearing. NNSA really does care very much about how much public support is present in a given region. They work very hard to create and sustain it, when necessary. It is a major factor in siting decisions, as the pit production Analysis of Alternatives and subsequent Engineering Analysis indicated. As my wife succinctly puts it, "They don't go where they aren't wanted." There is a rich kaleidoscope of things one might usefully say, and environmental impacts one might mention. They run the full gamut. This is a vast program, 20x the cost of the Manhattan Project in NM, 40x the cost of the Railrunner, ~50x the cost of Cochiti Dam, and the impacts are equally vast. For reference, DOE's PEIS, a summary of it, and DOE's presentation materials are here. You will find useful background in our most recent ad in the Santa Fe Reporter, which ran until yesterday. We conclude:
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