The Department of Energy on Friday released a draft environmental impact statement covering the next 15 years of operations at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California.
The public may comment on the draft through Jan. 03, according to a Federal Register notice. For the period spanning 2023-2035, the DOE has proposed 75 projects at the younger of the nation’s two nuclear weapons design laboratories, including 20 modernization and upgrade projects.
The agency also said it planned to tear town about 150 facilities at the San Francisco Bay Area lab. These have a combined footprint of more than 1 million square feet, the DOE said in a summary of its draft environmental impact statement.
The agency posted the summary and the two complete volumes of the draft document online. Combined, the volumes run to 1,300 pages.
Livermore is in charge of the W87-0 and W87-1 intercontinental ballistic missile warhead life extensions and the W80-4 air-launched cruise-missile warhead life extension. A portion of all of these programs overlap with the period studied in DOE’s latest environmental review of the lab.
