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Administration requests $1.5 million for Price’s Dairy refuge
The Obama administration’s fiscal year 2013 budget request includes $1.5 million for acquisition of the first 100 acres of property for the Price’s Dairy wildlife refuge in Bernalillo County’s far… Read more
Los Alamos bracing
Among the many loose ends left hanging in this week’s discussions of the U.S. nuclear weapons budget is the programmatic impact of shutting down work on the Chemistry and Metallurgy… Read more
National Academies: Labs-NNSA relationship “dysfunctional”
A new report out this morning (Wed. 2/15/2012) from a National Academies panel studying the National Nuclear Security Administration’s management of its weapons labs describes the relationship as “dysfunctional”. The… Read more
Political Reaction to CMRR Decision
My colleague Mike Coleman, the Journal’s DC bureau dude, rounded up some very interesting political reaction to today’s announcement by the Obama administration that it wants to all but kill… Read more
DOE Secretary Chu Says Plutonium Decision at Los Alamos About Budget Constraints
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu told reporters in Washington today that the Department of Energy’s decision to abandon – at least for five years – the plutonium complex proposed for Los… Read more
White House announces deep cut to Los Alamos plutonium project
The White House made official this mornings its widely anticipated decision (see Sunday’s story) to ask Congress to deeply cut the funding request for the over budget, behind schedule plutonium… Read more
What to expect in the FY13 budget request, NukeWatch edition
In anticipation of the Monday (2/13/12) release of the administration’s Fiscal Year 2013 budget request, the analysts at Nuclear Watch New Mexico have sketched the outline of what shows up… Read more
On CMRR, Turner Fires Back
In yesterday’s episode of As the Nuclear Budget Turns, Massachusetts Democrat Ed Markey was going on about the need to cut federal spending on nuclear weapons, including money for the… Read more
Some history on the argument over funding UPF and CMRR
As we prepare for next Monday’s (2/13/12) federal budget release and the very real possibility of significantly scaled back funding for the multi-billion dollar Los Alamos Chemistry and Metallurgy Research… Read more
Markey Calls for killing both UPF and CMRR
Rep. Ed Markey, D-Mass., introduce legislation today that would, among other things, kill both the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Uranium Processing Facility (Tennessee) and the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement… Read more
Around the tubes
Some longish links worth a click: Jessica Ludy takes a deep dive into questions of flood risk, and what’s wrong with just thinking about the hundred year flood The WSJ… Read more
Legal intricacies of water transfer proposal on display
The language of Article XVI, Section 3 of the New Mexico Constitution (pdf) rolls like poetry off the tongues of water lawyers: Beneficial use shall be the basis, the measure… Read more