LANL site plan & proposed building boom
updated 10 Apr 2022

LANL Technical Area 55 top of photo & Elk Ridge mobile home park in foreground (photo by LASG © April 2021)

 • The core debate: A multi-billion-dollar project to make plutonium cores... Searchlight New Mexico, Mar 23, 2022
 • Los Alamos warhead "pit" production preparations begin dangerous 24/7 work in struggle to meet deadlines; STRATCOM: "unlimited money" would not be enough to meet 2030 deadline, Mar 10, 2022
 • Unprecedented weapons production mission at LANL threatens regional decline, loss of autonomy: what can this committee do?, Greg Mello, slides, Radioactive & Hazardous Materials Committee, Nov 12, 2021
 • Plutonium warhead factory under construction near Santa Fe, LASG double-page ad, Santa Fe Reporter, Sep 29, 2021
 • Plutonium warhead factory under construction near Santa Fe, LASG double-page ad, Santa Fe Reporter, Sep 22, 2021
 • Plutonium warhead factory under construction near Santa Fe, LASG full-page ad, Albuquerque Journal, Sun, Sep 19, 2021
 • US lab looks to boost power supply ahead of nuclear mission, Associated Press, Apr 20, 2021
 • LANL releases 2021 "Site Sustainability Plan" for "rapidly changing and growing mission", press release, Feb 24, 2021
 • New billboard raises awareness of multibillion-dollar plutonium bomb factory under construction near Santa Fe -- meanwhile -- Santa Fe County Commission tacitly endorses expanded LANL plutonium bomb production, press release, Feb 3, 2021
 • LASG letter to federal & state officials: Testimony from citizens hearing on LANL expansion and pit production, Oct 17, 2020
 • Los Alamos Study Group To Hold Citizens Hearing Wednesday On LANL Expansion, Nuclear Weapons Manufacturing, Los Alamos Reporter, Oct 6, 2020
 • Citizens hearing on LANL expansion, Nuclear weapons manufacturing, and alternatives for the region to be held Wednesday, October 7, at the State Capitol, 1-6 pm, press release, Oct 5, 2020
 • DOE concludes no EIS needed for vast expansion of Los Alamos nuclear missions, including plutonium bomb core factory -- altogether, the largest project in the history of New Mexico, press release, Sep 1, 2020
 • Step up against expansion of LANL's nuclear mission, Lydia Clark, Santa Fe New Mexican, Jun 27, 2020
 • LANL’s proposed expansion and plutonium warhead core (“pit”) plans in context, LASG seminar slides, May 19, 2020
 • Environmental review for LANL expansion needed, Suzanne Schwartz, Santa Fe New Mexican, Feb 15, 2020
 • Bulletin 264: LANL expansion, new mailing list, staff position available, news and views you can use, Nov 26, 2019
 • LANL’s expansion plans lack coordination, transparency, sound engineering, and environmental analysis, Mello commentary, Los Alamos Reporter, Nov 8, 2019
 • Bulletin 263: Unfolding fiasco: Los Alamos doubles down on plutonium and growth overall, Sep 27, 2019
 • Group seeks impact statement for lab expansion plan, Los Alamos Monitor, Sep 23, 2019
 • Mello Discusses LANL Plutonium Dilute & Dispose Program, Lab Expansion Plans At Capitol Town Hall Meeting, Los Alamos Reporter, Sep 20, 2019
 • Town Hall briefing slides: LANL’s plans for plutonium pit production and weapons expansion, Ending enchantment?, Sep 17, 2019
 • Los Alamos Study Group to host town hall meeting on Los Alamos lab expansion, press release, Sep 6, 2019
 • Radioactive & Hazardous Waste Committee Hears From LANL, Los Alamos Reporter, Aug 28, 2019
 • Los Alamos lab plans $5 billion of work on old [and new] buildings over 5 years, Santa Fe New Mexican, Aug 26, 2019
 • "Ending enchantment: LANL’s plans for plutonium pit production and weapons expansion," presentation in Taos, Aug 23, 2019
   – Video of Presentation in Taos
   – Included charts about plutonium pit spending with a short explanation
 • LANL Plans Expansion of Nuclear Work: What If?, Retake Our Democracy, Aug 22, 2019
 • National lab details $13B in building plans over next decade, Associated Press, Aug 17, 2019
 • Plans for massive contruction & huge new roads at LANL as part of plutonium pit production, interview with Greg Mello, Cultural Energy, Aug 14, 2019
 • LANL officials detail potential building boom, Albuquerque Journal, Aug 9, 2019
 • LANL subcontractors forum slides, Aug 8, 2019
 • Excerpts from current LANL site plan (LASG photos), Aug 8, 2019

Selected materials presented at the LANL Subcontractor's Forum, Aug 8, 2019, received via FOIA by LASG:
   – LANL Comprehensive Site Plan, slides (redacted)
   – LANL Future Land Acquistion & Development, slides (redacted)
   – LANL Vision for Future Campus, slides (redacted)
   – LANL Future Campus, video, Aug 27, 2019
 • Proposed Rio Grande bridge crossing, looking north, LASG aerial photo ©2012
 • Better Connections To Santa Fe And Albuquerque Discussed In Recent LANL All-Hands Meetings, Los Alamos Reporter, Jul 9, 2019
 • Industrial pit production at LANL: mistaken mission, wrong place, Greg Mello, Los Alamos Monitor, Jun 30, 2019
 • Letter to congressional colleagues: A glance back to when LANL was assigned the pit production mission on the promise it could do 50 ppy on a $110 M investment, May 30, 2019
 • Memo from LANL Director Terry C. Wallace, Jr. re: NNSA announces plans for future plutonium mission, May 10, 2018
 • Bulletin 245: Bingaman, Domenici, Udall, Richardson, LANL, UC, and NNSA have all argued against Los Alamos becoming a larger, permanent plutonium "pit" production site, Mar 8, 2018
 • Expansion of Los Alamos Plutonium Warhead “Pit” Factory Eyed, Plutonium Pit Production Fact Sheet, updated Oct 2017
 • Rep. John Garamendi (D-CA) offers amendment to cut funding for expansion of plutonium pit production at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), May 24, 2016
 • Amid safety concerns at LANL, Udall weighs in on lab’s next mission: Pit production, Santa Fe New Mexican, Feb 21, 2015
 • A Sisyphean History: Failed Efforts to Construct a Building to Restore Pit Production, Jonathan Medalia, CRS, Feb 21, 2014
 • GAO presses NNSA to think long-term on plutonium mission at Los Alamos, Nuclear Weapons & Materials Monitor, Sep 13, 2013
 • Letter to newspaper editors about nuclear construction at LANL as an economic engine (dated but useful), Dec 5, 2011, posted again Feb 7, 2020  
 • NM State Road 594, Santa Fe to Los Alamos Corridor Study, Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Sep 18, 1990 (h/t to Los Alamos Reporter)

Aerial photograph of approximate location of LANL's proposed bridge over the Rio Grande. (photo by LASG ©2018)