February 29 (Leap Year) Update: The Oceanic Pintail is expected back in its home port of Barrow on the Monday afternoon, February 29, high tide. US DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration maintains its unjustified and stunned silence about the shipment to SRS of German and Swiss plutonium on board the Pintail.
Archives for February 2016
Plutonium Ships on the Move, from UK to Japan
ATTENTION International Non-Proliferation and Environmental Community: The count-down on the arrival of the UK-flagged Pacific Egret and Pacific Heron to pick up 331 kilograms of plutonium at Tokai, Japan has begun.
“Activist group praises ORNL’s reactor report”
“Activist group praises ORNL’s reactor report”
– in Frank Munger’s Atomic City Underground blog (Knoxville, Tennessee), February 26, 2016 – linked here
SRS Watch alert,
European Plutonium Arrives at SRS – Stranded!
Ship Arrives in Charleston, South Carolina with Nuclear Cargo Destined to be Stranded at the Savannah River Site; Cargo of Plutonium from Germany (Karlsruhe) and Switzerland (Paul Scherrer Institut) in Advance of Nuclear Security Summit (Washington,
DOE Asks Congress to Terminate MOX Boondoggle
MOX gets MASHED! DOE, After All the Painful Years of the MOX Mess Dragging On & On, Says MOX Boondoggle is to be Terminated
DOE Budget Calls for Termination of for Mismanaged Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Project at DOE’s Savannah River Site;
Plutonium Ships Spotted in Panama Canal, bound for Japan and then Charleston, SC
SRS Watch news, February 6, 2016
UK-Flagged Ships Set to Transport Plutonium from Japan to US Located in Panama Canal!