Archives for July 2014

Savannah River Site Watch
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Media Alert
July 28, 2014

Savannah River Site Watch (SRS Watch) Interacts with Secretary of Energy Moniz at “Meet & Greet” – Question about MOX Boondoggle Posed Directly to Moniz and Opposition to German Spent Fuel Import Expressed in Letter to Him

letter to be delivered in person to Secretary Moniz:  “Place MOX Construction on Cold Standby;

Below is a July 28 news release from Senator Vincent Sheheen on the plan to dump German spent nuclear fuel at the Savannah River Site. Sheheen is in the South Carolina legislature and is running for governor.

Here’s news from a sister organization located near the Sellafield nuclear complex in the UK – Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment (CORE). 

Bundestag reveals truth on German spent fuel

Despite feeble efforts by DOE and certain special interests and a few in Germany to rebrand the AVR reactor as a “research”

Savannah River Site Clean-up Panel in 16-0 Vote Renews Position Against Bringing Commercial Spent Fuel<strong  to the Savannah River Site

SRS Citizens Advisory Board  (SRS CAB) Continues to Stay Focused on SRS Clean-Up While DOE Chases German Nuclear Waste

It’s good to report that the Savannah River Site Citizens Advisory Board (SRS CAB),

Oooopppsss, the Forschungszentrum  Jülich (FZJ) research center in Germany  has driven a nail into the coffin of the proposal to export commercial nuclear reactor spent fuel to the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.

The Savannah River Site (SRS) is not a dump for Germany’s high-level nuclear waste (spent fuel)!

The 310-square mile U.S. Department of Energy site is in the state of South Carolina,

Comments by SRS Watch to the South Carolina Governor’s Nuclear Advisory Council on July 10, 2014 – click here.

At the meeting in Columbia,

Thank you, Representative Fortenberry for introducing some sanity into the discussion about the MOX boondoggle!

Though he withdrew his amendment to House legislation to fund the Department of Energy,

Statement by Ms. Sylvia Kotting-Uhl, Spokesperon on Nuclear Issues in the German Bundestag for the “Bundestagsfraktion BÜNDNIS 90/ DIE GRÜNEN” – July 8,

Senator Graham Continues to Thumb His Nose at Requests for MOX Accountability

Despite requests by SRS Watch  to Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to obtain and release any MOX plant costs estimates from AREVA,