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,

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,

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.

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,

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”

“The sad legacy of the Savannah River plutonium plant”

Atlanta Journal-Constituion, 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.

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”

“NNSA Loses Environmental Regulation Lawsuit”

A U.S. District Court judge ruled on Sept. 30 that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) violated the National Environmental Policy Act by failing to conduct a proper analysis of alternatives that takes into consideration environmental impacts after significantly modifying plans for plutonium pit production in 2018.

Westinghouse Official to be Sentenced on November 20 for Role in South Carolina Nuclear Reactor Construction Debacle at V.C. Summer Site

Columbia, SC – After various delays, the sentencing of the last admitted felon in the collapse of the ill-fated V.C. Summer nuclear reactor construction project is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court in Columbia,

Drones spotted over US nuclear reactors in 2022, 2023 and 2024 – US Nuclear Regulatory Commission lists in response to Freedom of Information Act request

These lists are interesting but don’t reveal if the drones flights were by hobbyists or something else. A number of different reactors are listed as well as BWXT,

“Plutonium just had a bad day in court”

“In a major decision whose consequences are still being assessed, a federal judge declared that plutonium pit production — one ingredient in the U.S. government’s $1.5 trillion nuclear weapons expansion — has to be performed in accordance with the nation’s strongest environmental law”