Freedom of Information Act response, April 24, 2018, to SRS Watch – citing no documents found by NNSA’s Office of Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation (NA-20) – linked here
SRS Watch news release of March 15,
Archives for May 2018
SRS to have bigger role in new nuclear weapons arms race?
Plutonium “pit” production would unnecessarily expand the nuclear weapons role of SRS and result in import of plutonium into South Carolina and produce a host of toxic waste streams likely to be dumped on site.
U.S. House Appropriations subcommittee to “mark up” DOE & SRS spending legislation on Monday, May 7, 5:30 p.m. – to be webcast
Will funding in Fiscal Year 2019 for termination of the badly bungled MOX project be discussed?
Energy & Water Subcommittee website linked here
Subcommittee Markup –
OINK ALERT! Doom & Gloom hangs heavy for MOX profiteer$ and new managers coming into the MOX project from the new contractor McDermott International as the U.S. House Energy & Water Subcommittee affirms MOX termination language.
The funding request for Fiscal Year 2019, according to Chairman Simpson, would allow for only “a limited amount of construction at the MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility” as termination details are developed and implemented.
Countdown to MOX boondoggle termination continues: Plutonium disposal “Dilute & Dispose” cost report is being finalized by DOE and may soon be delivered to Congress, as we have been saying
According to the May 4, 2018 edition of the Exchange Monitor, Virginia Kay, deputy director of the DOE National Nuclear Security Administration’s Office of Material Disposition, said that the report would be delivered in a “Juneish”
Disposal of SRS plutonium as nuclear waste & not via the bungled MOX project? The National Academies of Sciences is looking into that. A report is to be issued later this year.
“Meeting 7: Disposal of Surplus Plutonium in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant
Nuclear and Radiation Studies Board
Study in Progress: Public Meeting
Topics: Nuclear and Radiation Studies Nuclear and Radioactive Waste Management
May 2,
“McDermott and CB&I Stockholders Approve Proposed Combination” – company news release of May 2, 2018
How will the “combination” of McDermott and Chicago Bridge & Iron (CB&) impact things at the MOX debacle, where CB&I Project Services Group is struggling with high worker turnover rates,
As Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Project-Termination Countdown Begins, More Problems with Project Revealed by DOE via FOIA Responses to Savannah River Site Watch
DOE Confirms Award Fee for MOX Services has been Terminated Starting with FY 2017; Annual Report on MOX Plant Not Delivered to Congress by February 15, as Legally Required,
“Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility—753% Over Baseline Budget”
Why haven’t fiscal conservatives rallied earlier to kill this chronic abuse of taxpayers?
in “Nuke Agency Needs Budget Accountability —
Just like the Pentagon,