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SRS Watch in WSB-TV (Atlanta, Georgia) report o n challenges posed by high-level nuclear waste at SRS and other DOE site
JACKSON, S.C. – A scathing government report showed years of mismanagement of nuclear waste disposal could be creating a real risk to people living near decades-old nuclear waste sites.
SRS not only has nuclear and chemical waste problems its got
COAL ASH problems….
Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, April 28, 2019 – article linked here
– filling the facility with concrete – of the 235-F building, where Plutonium-238 was processed into fuel pellets for space probes. About 400 grams of that nasty isotope remains in the building.
Wise claims that employee Phillip Thompson was a rouge, criminal operative and that Wise knew nothing about his engagement in fraudulent behavior. Thompson should now be in federal prison in Ohio if he reported as promised.
Looks like DOE/NNSA is well on its way to mismanage any plutonium “pit” project at SRS & maximize costs and schedule delays. If anyone gets the report, which may be marked “Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information”
SRS Watch to participate in Earth Day Events at Aiken Technical College (ATC) on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 – Please stop by if you’re in the Aiken, South Carolina area!
Representative Jim Cooper, who several years ago rightly deemed MOX a “zombie project,” calls out DOE for pouring money into the unauthorized, dangerous project to “repurpose” the shuttered MOX plant into nuclear bomb production (for plutonium pits).
More revealed about DOE and its unneeded, costly “advanced” reactor project:
“There are Faster, Cheaper, Safer and More Reliable Alternatives to the Energy Department’s Proposed Multibillion Dollar Test Reactor”
Well, no surprise here as DOE and its contractors always aim to run far over budget with new, large and complex projects. Think MOX. Thankfully, we beat back the “Energy Park”
