New Aerial Photos of Doomed Plutonium Fuel MOX Project at the DOE’s Savannah River Site Released, Legally Taken on May 26, 2017 – Can be Used with Approval by &
Archives for May 2017
New Aerial Photos Released of Mismanaged, Massively Over-Budget AP1000 Experimental Nuclear Reactor Projects in South Carolina and Georgia, May 26, 2017 – Can be Used with Approval by & Credit to ©High Flyer
South Carolina Electric & Gas’ (SCE&G) VC Summer photos, May 26, 2017, Courtesy of High Flyer © 2017, have been linked by High Flyer on a public Google drive:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0BwkyYyn8X-ySTHlYc0pwWDhCTWs
Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle May 26,
SRS Watch new release on Trump Administration Decision to Terminate the MOX Boondoggle – May 23, 2017
Department of Energy Budget Request Deals Budget-Cutting Blow to Plutonium MOX Project, $270 Million Request for Project “Termination” is $70 Million less than Current Spending Level; Cut would Speed Orderly Termination of Mismanaged MOX Program
Washington,
Fake News at SRS is Destroyed – Super Hyped-Up “Drone Scare of 2016” Goes Bust – SRS Confirms No Drones over SRS “located or confirmed”
Suspicious of the hyped-up drone reports in the summer of 2016, SRS Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request on the matter in November 2016. We still have received no documents.
SCE&G Replaces Cracked Nuclear Reactor Vessel Head during Current Refueling Outage; US NRC Confirms Replacement to SRS Watch
South Carolina Public Service Commission Denies Request for “Emergency Hearing” on Troubled VC Summer Nuclear Reactor Construction Project
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has confirmed is that the “degraded” vessel head at South Carolina Electric &
Why is DOE being so sluggish in responding to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests filed by SRS Watch? Is this an endemic problem under Secretary Perry’s Department of Energy or is it just us?
Some of the outstanding FOIA requests we have pending with SRS and DOE/NNSA on important programs and matters – list linked here:
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SRS Watch Meets on The Hill on MOX Boondoggle, DOE Clean-up
May 17, 2017: SRS Watch to Join with Sister Organizations to Meet with Congressional and Administration Offices in Washington, DC to Represent the Public Interest in DOE Funding and Policy Matters,
Why the On-going Informational Blackout on the MOX Project at SRS?
Why are DOE/NNSA and CB&I AREVA MOX Services Failing to Answer Basic Questions about the Mismanaged Project’s Viability at the Time the DOE Budget for Fiscal Year 2018 is Supposedly Set to be Released (on May 22 or 23…)?
DOE Oversight Agency Confirms Initial Receipt, Dumping of Canadian Liquid High Level Nuclear Waste at Savannah River Site; DNFSB Reveals Radiation Shielding Problems in Handling Liquid HLW in H-Canyon
DOE’s Failure to Release Information Prompts FOIA Request by SRS Watch
Columbia, SC – Receipt of controversial shipments of highly radioactive liquid waste from Canada has begun arriving at the U.S.
Reflecting Ongoing Plutonium MOX Project Problems, DOE Confirms Legally Required Annual Report on MOX Facility Not Prepared for Congress; Questions on MOX Project Viability Remain Unanswered
Link to FOIA Response Document Confirming no MOX Report: https://tinyurl.com/kfx6hgl
Columbia, SC – Reflecting disarray in the program to dispose of surplus weapons plutonium,
GLOOM over the Boondoggle….no, not an Irish folk song…
Congress Cuts MOX Funding for Fiscal Year 2017, Keeps Project on a Shut-down Track while Funding Alternative Plutonium Disposal Method (Dilute and Dispose) at Savannah River Site
Dreams of MOX boosters to get an Increase in funding not realized –