URGENT! To members of the public in South Carolina: Your presence needed on Monday, July 31 & Tuesday, August 1 in Columbia, SC at historic meetings when fate of the SCE&G/Santee Cooper nuclear reactor boondoggle will be decided –
Archives for July 2017
Please allow us to drone on…..SRS is pro-actively undermining its credibility by failure to respond to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests filed by SRS Watch in November 2016
See partial list of outstanding SRS Watch FOIA requests, July 24, 2017, linked here
Why is SRS refusing to release any evidence about the hyped up “Drone Scare of 2016”
2017 Nuclear Materials Management Plan for DOE’s Savannah River Site Reveals Plutonium Oxide Production in HB-Line is Halting – Setback for MOX as Main Source of Plutonium “Feedstock” Eliminated
SRS Watch news, July 20, 2017 – news release linked here
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board: Nuclear Material Shipment to H-Canyon and HB-Line Halted
Note: The news release posted on July 20 was clear in that processing of plutonium liquid in HB-Line would continue and that processing of plutonium from K-Area would cease.
MOX Showdown at High Noon, July 20, 2017:
MOX Termination on the Move in U.S. Senate
Senate Energy & Water chairman and ranking member vs $enator “MOXie” Graham, who stands alone in defending MOX waste for his client (CB&I AREVA MOX Services) —–
U.S. DOE Documents Obtained via FOIA Request Confirm “Mission Need” to Expand “Dilute and Dispose” Method of Plutonium Disposition at Savannah River Site, Replacing MOX
Dilute and Dispose Faces Hurdles, Including Capacity of WIPP Disposal Site in New Mexico
Columbia, South Carolina – U.S. Department of Energy documents confirm that DOE has officially justified disposition of larger amounts of surplus weapon-grade plutonium via “dilute and dispose,” an alternative to the mismanaged plutonium fuel (MOX) project at the Savannah River Site.
MOX Workers Jumping Ship
July 10, 2017: We’re hearing turnover amongst workers at the MOX debacle remains high…they come…they get trained…they leave for higher-paying jobs where they can earn overtime = a formula for poor performance as termination of the project closes in.
MOX Albatross Weighing Heavier and Heavier on Necks of Senator Graham and Representative Wilson
The last quarter of the U.S. Government’s Fiscal Year 2017 has arrived and we expect more action by DOE to start shutting down the bungled plutonium fuel (MOX) project at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.