Things are getting off to a very shaky start on this process as DOE is rushing things without presenting justification for the questionable plutonium “pit” project – DOE’s typical recipe for failure with such complex,
Archives for June 2019
PLEASE ATTEND DOE’s environmental impact meeting on the unjustified Plutonium Bomb Plant
June 27, 5-9 p.m., North Augusta Community Center, 495 Brookside Ave, N. Augusta, South Carolina
“Guest Column: New plutonium mission at SRS is the pits”
“NNSA collects comments on plutonium pit proposal at SRS”
Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, June 27, 2019
“Opinions of SRS plutonium pit production clash at North Augusta public forum”
Aiken (South Carolina) Standard, June 27, 2019
June 27, 2019
“Locals divided on nuclear weapon program at SRS”
WFXG TV, Augusta, GA, June 27, 2019
https://www.wfxg.com/2019/06/28/locals-divided-nuclear-weapon-program-srs/
Meeting set for Thursday [June 27, 2019] on impact of SRS plutonium pit production
Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, June 26, 2019, article linked here
Plutonium “Pit” Production for New Nuclear Weapons Wrong for SRS – SRS Watch Opinion
Guest Editorial: New Plutonium Warhead Mission at SRS is the Pits
Aiken (South Carolina) Standard, June 24, 2019
by Tom Clements, Director, SRS Watch
Succumbing to organizational flaws,
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board makes stunning allegations about risks of tritium operations – for nuclear weapons – at SRS
See Recommendation 2019-02, in Federal Register, June 19, 2019
– linked here:
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-06-19/pdf/2019-12918.pdf
Effects of Tritium Release: Much of
the in-process tritium at the Tritium
Facilities may be in the form of gas,
“Proposed plutonium pit expansion raising questions”
WJBF TV, Augusta, Georgia
“Critics raise concerns over proposed atomic bomb factory near Aiken”
Front page article in The State newspaper, Columbia, SC,. June 15, 2019 on the forum on the Plutonium Bomb Plant proposed for SRS
print edition title: “Critics raise concerns over proposed atomic bomb factory near Aiken”
The forum on plutonium “pit” production – Plutonium Bomb Plant: Risky Project Targeted for SRS – will take place on Friday evening. June 14, 7-9 p.m.
EDT in Aiken, South Carolina. Please attend!
The event will (hopefully) be live streamed at this FB page:
https://www.facebook.com/elaine.cooper.98
FacebookB “event”
Victory for SRS Watch and allied groups
Federal Government Meets Watchdogs’ Demand for Environmental Review of Expanded Plutonium “Pit” Production (for Nuclear Weapons), Including Preparation of Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on Proposed “Plutonium Bomb Plant” (PBP) at SRS
In a victory for transparency and legal compliance by the government,
Markup of H.R. 2500 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020
June 4, 2019, 3:30 p.m., Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
Markup of H.R. 2500 – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 – To be Webcast- linked here
We’ll see what they have to say about two plutonium bomb plants,
Despite a propaganda push by DOE, boosters and Aiken, SC media for plutonium pit production in the Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at SRS, for unjustified new and refurbished nuclear weapons, looks like the scheme has hit a big snag….
House Armed Services Strategic Forces Subcommittee mark-up is at 3:30 p.m. on June 4 — SRS pit production will NOT be authorized or funded by Congress
Mark-up language: “H.R.
“Noted Environmental Lawyers Warn Government Not to Expand Production of Plutonium Bomb Cores in Violation of National Environmental Policy Act and Public Review”
News release, June 4, 2019 – SRS Watch, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Tri-Valley CAREs
On behalf of three public interest organizations – Nuclear Watch New Mexico,