Archives for January 2015

DOE reveals before SRS Citizens Advisory Board that estimated clean-up cost of SRS Cold War waste soars $23 billion to $91 to $109 billion, with site clean-up completion delayed from 2042 to 2065

Presentation to the SRS Citizen Advisory Board by Doug Hintze – January 26,

Over the Last Forty Year, there Have Been Major Savannah River Site (SRS) Victories on Behalf of the Public and Environment!

See them here.

Comment of Savannah River Site Watch, at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Public Meeting on MOX Plant Construction Regulation, New Ellenton, SC (adjacent to SRS),  January 15, 2015

The meeting included an NRC presentation on why a 10-year license extension,

SRS Watch news release – January 12, 2015

DOE Management Report Outlines Deep Problems with Management of Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Project and Indicates Cost of the MOX Plant could be Up to $12 Billion

MOX Cost and Schedule Continues to Spin Out of Control as DOE Studies the Problem –

How much money will the construction of the plutonium fuel (MOX) plant receive for Fiscal Year 2015?

As of December 31, funding in the current fiscal year (October 1,

SRS Watch news release – January 7, 2015

FOIA Documents Reveal Savannah River Site (SRS) Forced by Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to Halt Promotion of “Small Modular Reactors” (SMRs) with Improperly Diverted Clean-Up Funds

Failure of SRS and Contractors to Secure SMR Funding Doomed “Enterprise SRS”  as a “Vision” for Future of SRS

Indications are that the diverted funds in question have not been reimbursued into the SRS clean-up fund.