Two Nuclear Weapons Facilities in South Carolina Play a Key & Intertwined Role in the Dangerous Preparation for Nuclear War: Savannah River Site (Aiken, SC) & “Dual-Use” Westinghouse Nuclear Plant (Columbia, SC)

Honor the Lessons of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Take Action – August 6,

Lawsuit Filed Against Biden Administration Over Nuclear Bomb Core Production Plans

Federal agencies’ refusal to review cross-country expansion of plutonium pit production violates the National Environmental Policy Act and the Administrative Procedures Act, groups say.
AIKEN, S.C. – Today, a coalition of community and public interest groups filed a lawsuit (download complaint below) against the U.S.

Advocacy Groups to Announce Legal Action on DOE’s Plans for Plutonium Bomb Plants at Savannah River Site and Los Alamos National Lab – to Make Plutonium “Pits” (Cores) for New Nuclear Weapons, Starting with Pits for the New, Controversial Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD), a Land-Based ICBM

June 29,

Department of Energy Budget Roll-Out Bungled, Request for Fiscal Year 2022 Reveals Savannah River Site Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) Cost Soars to Staggering $11.1 Billion; SRS Plutonium Pit Project Requests $603 Million in FY22, with $475 Million for Conversion of MOX Plant to Pit Production – Funding Requests are Far Under Annual Levels Needed to Pull Off the Controversial Project

Columbia,

WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY’S FY 2022 NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND CLEANUP BUDGET REQUEST of Friday, May 28, 2021 – Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (of which Savannah River Site Watch is a proud member)

The White House is releasing its detailed Fiscal Year 2022 budget on Friday,

Stay tuned for the release by the US DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration of a “Critical Decsion-1” determination on the proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant. CD-1 would approve the basic project design and present an update cost range. The cost for the bomb plant could soar to $10 billion or more,

Groups Notify Biden Admin of Impending Lawsuit Over Nuclear Bomb Core Plans

Multi-state coalition says DOE’s plans to massively expand plutonium pit production violate a major environmental law and constitutes an environmental injustice.

CHARLESTON, S.C. — A coalition of public interest organizations notified (PDF below) the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) urging a comprehensive review of plans to vastly ramp up production of nuclear bomb cores at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.

“HALEU IN PORTSMOUTH, Ohio?  Nuclear weapons and other grave risks”

Alert from Beyond Nuclear: “The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is poised to forego a more comprehensive National Environmental Policy Act review of American Centrifuge Plant/Centrus’s scheme to generate High Assay Low Enriched Uranium in Portsmouth, OH, containing up to nearly 20% Uranium-235,

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is quietly moving toward licensing a Centrus facility in Piketon, Ohio to produce “high-assay low- enriched uranium” (HALEU). Why the secrecy?

HALEU is 5% to 20% enriched in uranium-235, which can be just below the level called highly enriched (or more proliferation concern).

DON’T DUMP ROCK FLATS ON SOUTH CAROLINA!

Public efforts to stop plutonium pit production at SRS have now reached 30 years old. Likewise, efforts to stop purification at SRS of plutonium for pits has reached the 30th anniversary. The fight against the bad idea of producing nuclear weapons pits (nuclear bomb triggers) at SRS goes on.

Biden Administration Asked to Review Plutonium Pit Expansion Plans

News release, February 12, 2021 – by South Carolina Environmental Law Project (SCELP), SRS Watch, Nuclear Watch New Mexico & Tri-Valley CAREs

Public interest organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) requesting that it address calls for a rigorous environmental review of plans to expand production of nuclear bomb cores at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and the Savannah River Site in Aiken,