A Native American Yucca Mountain Experience

By the year 2001, the Environmental Protection Agency set the radiation protection standards for Yucca Mountain without considering the comments of the Native Community Action Council challenging the Environmental Protection Agency standard for not being protective of...
One Month Left to Comment on Expanded Plutonium Pit Production

One Month Left to Comment on Expanded Plutonium Pit Production

There is just one month remaining to submit comments on the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for expanded plutonium pit production. The proposal would dramatically increase production of plutonium pits...

Deadly plutonium and families don’t mix

Letter to the Editor, Tracy Press Gail Rieger Editor, I’ve lived In Tracy for 30 years. I’ve watched our town grow from a handful to more than 100,000 residents. Yet, when I logged onto energy.gov to research the government’s plan to restart industrial-scale plutonium...