Photo: The heart of the MOX boondoggle cover-up: $17 billion MOX plant at Savannah River Site (SRS), terminated in 2018
©High Flyer, special to SRS Watch - photo can be used with this credit - photos not posted by DOE at www.srs.gov or www.energy.gov
The U.S . Department of Energy's Efforts to Carry Out the $47.5+ Billion Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Project Failed and DOE and Congress Continue Covering Up what Happened with the MOX Debacle at the Savannah River Site - Investigations Needed!
Business at its Ugly Usual with DOE and Congress: There is Still No Accountability to the Tax-Paying Public for the U.S. DOE's Grossly Mismanaged Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Project, a Textbook Case of Big Government's Inability to Manage a Costly, Complex Project.
When will Secretary of Energy Chris Wright and Congress act to hold those responsible accountable for the failed MOX project? Managers with the DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) and MOX contractor CB&I Areva MOX Services must be held accountable for bungling the project and wasting our money. Without accountability for the MOX boondoggle the likelihood of a repeat with the proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant looms large.
Investigations into fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement are urgently needed before "repurposing" the partially finished MOX building into an Plutonium Bomb Plant (for production of plutonium "pits" for new nuclear weapons). Cost of the pit "mission" at SRS is now estimated to be from $18-25 billion!
If you have information about problems with the MOX boondoggle and the resulting cover-up or have information useful to the public about the SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant project please get in touch: srswatch@gmail.com. DOE must be held accountable for the massive waste of taxpayer money.
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Workshop by SRS Watch & other groups – how to comment on the Programmatic EIS on plutonium pit-production at the Savannah River Site & Los Alamos – for new nuclear weapons over the next 50 years – May 22, 6-7:30 p.m. ET
Flyer (image above):
Virtual Workshop:
Nationwide programmatic environmental impact statement on the expanded production
of plutonium “pit” bomb cores
Making Effective Comments at the Upcoming Public Hearings…
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Lawsuit Compels Nationwide Public Review of Plutonium Bomb Core Production
AIKEN, S.C. — Today the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency within the Department of Energy, published a formal Notice of Intent in the Federal Register to complete a nationwide “programmatic environmental impact statement” (PEIS) on the expanded production of plutonium “pit” bomb cores.
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You are encouraged to attend one of these talks about the role of Savannah River Site in the nuclear arms race and enter into constructive dialogue about what the public can do to challenge the massive waste of resources on the nuclear buildup and the security and environmental threat it poses.
Read MoreReasons the Small Modular Reactor (SMR) sections of the H 3309 energy bill before the South Carolina legislature should be eliminated
Savannah River Site Watch, fact sheet on problems in energy bill with both SMRs and state-funded nuclear industry booster group South Carolina Nuclear Advisory Council (NAC),
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Annual Contractor Performance Review Reveals that Proposed DOE Nuclear Weapons Plutonium-Component Facility at Savannah River Site Lacks Master Schedule or Updated Cost Estimate
National Nuclear Security Administration’s FY2024 “Performance Evaluation Report” (PER) for SRS: Plutonium “Pit” Plant Project Management is “Less than Adequate” &
Read MoreSRS Watch has filed a FOIA request with DOE’s Savannah River Site for documents related to “DEIA.”
The request of February 3, 2025 is for the following documents:
Any communication, including emails, sent by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) or by management of the Savannah River Site to DOE and contractor employees at SRS concerning compliance with the memorandum entitled “Initial Guidance Regarding DEIS Executive Orders.”
Any communication,
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Historic Settlement Reached in NEPA Lawsuit Over Plutonium “Pit” Bomb Core Production
News release, January 17, 2025
AIKEN, S.C. — Nonprofit public interest groups have reached an historic settlement agreement with the Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency, the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
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Savannah River Site Watch Celebrates 10 Years of Public-Interest Advocacy for the Environment, Nuclear Nonproliferation
News release linked here: https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/757512140/savannah-river-site-watch-celebrates-10-years-of-public-interest-advocacy-for-the-environment-nuclear-nonproliferation
COLUMBIA, SC, November 4, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ — The public interest group Savannah River Site Watch is proud to celebrate 10 years of non-profit advocacy for sound policies in South Carolina,
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South Carolina Environmental Law Project
Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition
Nuclear Watch New Mexico
Savannah River Site Watch
Tri-Valley CAREs
For Immediate Release – full release: Plutonium pit NEPA decision news release Oct 3 2024
October 3,
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Photo: SRS Watch director Clements at Underground “bunker” at the University of Georgia – special collections
SRS Watch director Tom Clements is honored that the University of Georgia houses the archives of over a 40-year career. The university approached Tom about placing his material in the archives, as the archives houses various collections representing public interest activism in Georgia and beyond..
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At the South Carolin Nuclear Advisory Council (NAC) meeting in Columbia, SC on April 29, 2024, SRS Watch made a hard-hitting comment questioning the role of the NAC in an energy bill now before the South Carolina legislature. That bill, H 5118, the “South Carolina Ten-year Energy Transformation Act,”
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DOE image on front page: tritium canister (of classified size) & above: diagram of Tritium Producing Burnable Absorber Rod (TPBAR)
TVA gains NRC approval to increase production of radioactive tritium gas for nuclear weapons – part of the National Nuclear Security Administration’s plan to fully charge all tritium reservoirs in all active warheads (and possibly reserve weapons as well).
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Exposing the “Conspiracy Reality” of On-Going Planning at the Savannah River Site (SRS) for Full-Scale Nuclear War
Presentation by Tom Clements, Director, Savannah River Site Watch, srswatch@gmail.com
Saturday, May 10, 2025, 10 a.m. ET, Unitarian Universalist church,
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As we prepare for a Federal Register notice on environmental meetings on the impact of plutonium pit production at SRS and Los Alamos, this article is very timely.
“DOGE’s staff firing fiasco at the nuclear weapon agency means everything but efficiency”
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, April 16,
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“Justice Prevails: A Grassroots Victory in the Fight against Nuclear Weapons Proliferation”
By Aspen Coriz-Romero, on National Priorities Project website, March 12, 2025
About our federal lawsuit victory against plutonium “pit” production – cores of nuclear warheads – at Savannah River Site (SRS) and Los Alamos,
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“Hot Plutonium Pit Bomb Redux”
CounterPunch, January 31, 2025
Last week U.S. District Judge Mary Lewis Geiger, South Carolina, faulted the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Agency for ignoring the National Environmental Protection Act and rushing plans to fabricate plutonium pit bombs at Savannah River Site,
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The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB), an independent agency that provides oversight of DOE activities, notes more problems at the SRS tritium-handling facilities. SRS process and package all tritium, a radioactive gas produced in the two Tennessee Valley Authority TVA Watts Bar commercial reactors. It would seem that after so many years of operating that problems like this would not keep occurring.
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JIMMY CARTER: Nuke Watchdog Commemorations
January 2, 2025
https://beyondnuclear.org/jimmy-carter-1924-2024-nuke-watchdog-commemorations/
[White House Oval Office photograph, signed by President Carter (October 1, 1924 — December 29, 2024), showing him with S. David Freeman (January 14, 1926 – May 12, 2020). Thank you to Glenn Carroll,
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Thank you, Jimmy Carter, for your monumental environmental and non-proliferation decision in 1977! South Carolina and the nation owe you a debt of gratitude.
If not for President Carter’s declaration against the Barnwell spent fuel reprocessing plant (Allied General Nuclear Services), South Carolina and the nation might now be awash in a vast amount of commercial high-level nuclear waste and stored commercial,
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We’re very honored to have been nominated by the Arms Control Association in Washington, DC for “Arms Control Person(s) of the Year,” along with fellow groups with which we are working! This is for our our work on the environmental lawsuit on plutonium pit production (for new nuclear warheads) by the U.S.
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Statement of Tom Clements, Director SRS Watch, on Nomination of Chris Wright as DOE Secretary
November 19, 2024
Based on the video I have seen of Mr. Chris Wright expressing his ignorance about climate change and the dramatic shift to cleaner energy that is taking place,
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DOE’s 2037 Deadlines for SRS: Realistic or Illusory?
by Don Moniak, The Aiken Chronicles, November 11, 2024
“The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Savannah River Site (SRS) has two major milestones to achieve by 2037. One is legally binding, the other is a commitment that remains negotiable”
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“The sad legacy of the Savannah River plutonium plant”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 6, 2024
Op-ed by Allie Maloney, a native Georgian and graduate of the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia, is a Scoville Peace Fellow for the Nuclear Information Project at Federation of American Scientists.
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Photo: Cover of document obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by SRS Watch and other groups with so many pages blacked out so as to coverup need for research on pit aging. That decision by NNSA isn’t over yet. Meanwhile, NNSA has not presented evidence that plutonium “pits”
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