The spent fuel does not contain weapon-grade uranium (highly enriched uranium, HEU) so would not be shipped for nuclear non-proliferation reasons.
Letter from DOE to NRC, November 30,
Archives for November 2018
More problems at the aging, decrepit H-Canyon reprocessing plant at SRS: violation of the Technical Safety Requirements (TSRs)
DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY BOARD (DNFSB) weekly report,
November 30, 2018
TO: Christopher J. Roscetti, Technical Director
FROM: M. T. Sautman and Z. C. McCabe, Resident Inspectors
SUBJECT: Savannah River Site Activity Report for Week Ending November 30,
Is the US DOE’s 63-year old H-Canyon reprocessing plant, the last such facility in the US, safe to operate?
The jury’s out on that question. the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) thankfully continues to monitor the status of the aging H-Canyon’s radioactive air discharge tunnel
DNFSB weekly report for November 23,
Good for a laugh: whiny, extremely ignorant rant conceding defeat over the MOX boondoggle – another “journalist” who fell prey to his own fake “news” about the failed plutonium fuel project
“Scuttlebiz: After five years of bureaucratic strangulation, MOX is dead”
Sadly DOE will figure out more ways to pry money out of the hands of hard-working taxpayers,
ATTENTION Beleaguered Tax-Paying Patriots who have footed the bill for the grossly mismanaged MOX Boondoggle:
Due to secrecy simply to hide information from the public about the embarrassing MOX debacle, DOE/NNSA is not posting information like this: Notice of MOX boondoggle project layoffs under the WARN Act for South Carolina
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MOX fake news media concedes on its favorite budget-busting debacle (MOX)
Well, well looky here – MOX fake news media concedes on its favorite budget-busting debacle (MOX) – this “news” outlet repeatedly and pro-actively ignored that the MOX project was headed to termination and printed false “information”
Plutonium proliferators/profiteers take a major hit as the welcome decline of reprocessing of commercial spent fuel – for stockpiling of weapon-usable plutonium – continues.
SRS Watch promises to continue to work for an end to reprocessing and the nuclear weapons proliferation threat it poses.
“Commercial nuclear reprocessing ends at Sellafield site”
SRS stores about 13 metric tons of surplus weapon-grade plutonium and receipt of plutonium from DOE sites has been stopped for several years.
Now that MOX is dead, will this plutonium go to WIPP in New Mexico to be disposed of as the waste that it is?
“Maintaining Continuity of Knowledge on Nuclear Waste Destined for Geological Repositories.
“First round of MOX layoff notices being sent out”
Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, November 8, 2018 – article linked here
More indications that problems with the “exhaust tunnel” at the aging H-Canyon reprocessing plant at the Savannah River Site may result in a serious accident in case of a seismic event.
Now, it’s an issue with functionality of emergency diesel generators to maintain ventilation.
SRS Occurrence Report, November 8, 2018 – linked here
“On October 31,
Picture NO PEIS, NO PITS!
SRS Watch in articles on DOE’s effort to expand plutonium “pit” production at SRS – for nuclear weapons – without preparing legally mandated environmental documentation (Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement –
BOMBS AWAY?! Uh, not so fast – we do not want a new “mission” at SRS that leads to more plutonium waste and needless preparation for nuclear war….
An overview of an analysis about making plutonium “pits” for nuclear weapons includes the bungled MOX plant at SRS. The South Carolina public will not trade one nuclear debacle –
“U.S. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION JULY 9 – 11, 2018, ONSITE OBSERVATION VISIT REPORT FOR THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE SALTSTONE DISPOSAL FACILITY” – dated November 1, 2018
How will the cap over the buried nuclear waste cells – a by-product of cesium removal from high-level nuclear waste in the SRS tanks – perform and when will it leak?