“United States Department of Energy Takes Steps to Halt Bungled Plutonium MOX Project at Savannah River Site: Judge Places Decision on Hold”
Also see other environmental stories of interest in the newsletter,
Archives for July 2018
Posted by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on July 30, 2018:
SAVANNAH RIVER SITE SALT WASTE DISPOSAL [of high-level waste by-product]
NRC Onsite Observation Visit
July 9-11, 2018
“Annual Radioactive Waste Tank Inspection Program – 2017, July 2018”
by Savannah River Remediation (contractor)
Report “SRR-STI-2018-00146 Revision 1” – linked here
NOTE: The document was posted on August 28, 2018 in the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s digital library (ADAMS).
House-Senate Conference Committee on Defense Bill Authorizes Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Termination by Secretary of Energy
Columbia, SC – The House and Senate have agreed to language in the defense bill which would allow termination of the problem-plagued MOX project now under increasing duress at the DOE’s Savannah River Site.
SRS Watch in article on failed plutonium MOX project, painfully headed towards termination at the Savannah River Site
“South Carolina Fights U.S. Plan to Abandon Nuclear Project Employing 1,800 – Department of Energy is spending $1.2 million a day on facility designed to dispose of surplus weapons-grade plutonium”
Blindly pro-MOX US federal judge in Columbia, SC steps back and passes the issue of the status of the MOX project termination to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, VA, which has already, in response to DOE’s appeal, set a hearing on the matter for September 25-28, 2018
Filed in State of South Carolina v. United States, Docket 1:18-cv-01431 on July 16, 2018:
TEXT ORDER: This matter is before the court pursuant to Defendants’
SRS Watch in: “DOE memo: MOX support could jeopardize other Savannah River Site missions”
“The Department of Energy is signaling to South Carolina authorities that its effort to keep the mixed oxide facility alive could be jeopardizing other opportunities — including the proposed pit mission at Savannah River Site,
The Long, Painful, Costly March to MOX Failure Continues, Poca a Poca Amigos!
Rulings by Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on hearing on DOE’s efforts to halt the MOX debacle – the court is set to hear DOE’s appeal from a lower court on September 25-28,
Leadership of South Carolina House & Senate file on behalf of the public to join federal court case in which SCE&G is attempting to have two laws on its bungled nuclear project thrown out, July 3, 2018:
Filings by Speaker of the House Jay Lucas, including a proposed order:
– intervention – linked here
“Proposed Answer” by judge to SCE&G – linked here
Filing by Speaker pro tempore Hugh Leatherman –
DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) releases key document to SRS Watch on plutonium “pit” (core) production at Savannah River Site and Los Alamos – for unneeded nuclear weapons – via a July 3, 2018 response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request
Final Report for the Plutonium Pit Production Analysis of Alternatives,
October 2017, linked here
FOIA response cover letter to SRS Watch, July 3, 2018, linked here
MOX Doom postponed a bit as workers get breathing room to find new jobs: “Appeals Judge Declines DOE Request to Lift Order Protecting MFFF”
Exchange Monitor, July 2, 2018 – article linked here
“The Department of Energy’s Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF) will enjoy judicial protection from the federal ax for essentially the rest of the government’s 2018 fiscal year after an appeals court on Friday decided not to immediately lift a lower court’s ban on closing the plant.