On its 20th anniversary – Recalling Japan’s worst nuclear accident before the Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdowns on March 11, 2011
“TOKAI MURA CRITICALITY ACCIDENT”
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Archives for September 2019
“How the US Wasted $8 Billion on the MOX Boondoggle” (which SRS Watch Tried to Stop for Decades)
SRS Watch, which fought long and hard for taxpayers against the MOX boondoggle, is mentioned in this article:
“Politics, poor planning leave lethal legacy —
There they go again: More Canadian Spent Fuel Dumped on SRS
More Canadian nuclear waste to SRS
“Defuelling completed at Canadian research reactor”
World Nuclear News, 27 September 2019
“Ahead of its decommissioning,
New Aerial Photos of Nation’s Bungled Nuclear Construction Projects Released: MOX, VC Summer, Vogtle
New Aerial Photos Released of Trifecta of U.S. Nuclear Construction Debacles: DOE’s Terminated Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Plant, Dominion/SCE&G Canceled V.C. Nuclear Reactor Project and Georgia Power’s Ongoing,
Opposition to NNSA Request for HEU Export to Europe
Intervention before the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the matter of an export license application by the National Nuclear Security Administration to export bomb-grade uranium (highly enriched uranium, HEU) to Europe for medical isotope production.
WOW!: Environmental Victory on Y-12 Bomb Plant Case Holds Implications for DOE’s Push for Unjustified Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at SRS
“COURT VACATES LEGAL AUTHORITY FOR NUCLEAR BOMB PLANT CONSTRUCTION IN OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE”
Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (OREPA), with Nuclear Watch New Mexico and Natural Resources Defense Council NRDC)
For Immediate release,
“Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protections” – by Congressional Research Service
“Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protections”
Congressional Research Service, September 23, 2019 – linked here: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/R45345.pdf
“Whistleblowing can be defined as “the act of reporting waste,
In Troubling Move, DOE for First Time Rejects Safety Board Recommendation, on Safety of SRS Tritium Facilities
An Ominous Sign for Safety at DOE Sites? US Department of Energy for the First Time Rejects a Recommendation of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board,
Warrior Against Government Waste Inspired Us to Fight Against MOX, Wasteful DOE Projects
“Remembering Peter Stockton”
A friend of SRS Watch and a warrior for good government and against waste of taxpayer money will be missed.
“Advocates threaten suit over…pit-making plans” at SRS, Los Alamos
“Advocates threaten suit over labs’ pit-making plans”
Albuquerque (New Mexico) Journal, September 18, 2019
“SANTA FE — Lawyers for three advocacy groups, including one in New
Mexico,
House Continuing Resolution for DOE, Government Funding into Fiscal Year 2020 Released
The House Continuing Resolution to fund the government into Fiscal Year 2020 (starts October 1, 2019) until November 21, 2019 has been posted by the House Rules Committee.
Armed Services’ “Conference Committee” to Decide on Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP), Defense Issues
The fate of the proposed, unjutified Plutonium Bomb Plant (PPB) at SRS now is the hands of the Armed Services’ conference committee. We don’t know much about Republican members of that committee but big-government big-spender Rep.
Pressure from Senate on Proposed “Plutonium Bomb Plant” (PBP) at SRS
US senators wrote on Sept. 13, 2019 to House & Senate Armed Services leaders, against unjustified “Plutonium Bomb Plant” at SRS, for provocative, new W87-1 nuclear warhead.
Under the misguided proposal from DOE,
Groups Amp Up Demand for Proper, Legally Mandated Environmental Review of DOE Proposal for Expanded Plutonium Pit Production
Watchdogs Issue Second Demand for Nation-Wide Environmental Review of Expanded Plutonium Pit Production
On September 17, 2019, lawyers for the Natural Resources Defense Council,
New Letter Sent to DOE Demanding PEIS on Plutonium Pit Production at SRS, Los Alamos
Lawyers for the Natural Resources Defense Council, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Savannah River Site Watch and Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment sent a second letter to Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Rick Perry and Lisa Gordon-Hagerty,
Senate Appropriations Committee Votes on DOE Funding, September 12, 2019
The Senate Appropriations Committee zeros out Yucca Mountain funding, cuts the Virtual Test Reactor (VTR) & keeps the plutonium sustainment slush fund for going – for “pits” for nuclear weapons.
“How to Starve Trump’s Lust for Nukes” (including the Plutonium Bomb Plant at SRS)
This opinion piece underscores the importance of the House-Senate “conference committee” on the defense bill (National Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2020), where the fate of the unjustified Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at Savannah River Site will be decided.
SRS Watch Challenges Reuse of MOX Building as Unjustified “Plutonium Bomb Plant”
Savannah River Site Watch Revamps Website, Challenges NNSA’s Reuse of MOX Building as “Plutonium Bomb Plant”
Group Urges Armed Services Committees to Reject Expanded Plutonium “Pit” Production for Nuclear Weapons,
Congress to Decide on Defense Bill, Unjustified “Plutonium Bomb Plant” at SRS
The fate of the unjustified “Plutonium Bomb Plant” (PBP) at DOE’s Savannah River Site is on the table this week when the defense bill – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 –
SRS Watch to Armed Services: No Funding for “Plutonium Bomb Plant” (PBP) at SRS, Require Proliferation Risk Assessment
The status of new plutonium “pit” production, for the cores of nuclear weapons, is the subject of negotiations in a conference committee between the U.S. House and Senate over their differing versions of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (NDAA).
U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee to Act on DOE Budget, September 12, 2019
Senate Appropriations to “mark up” legislation on DOE spending – will they act responsibly for our national security or will they support dangerous projects like the proposed “Plutonium Bomb Plant”
More Highly Radioactive Research Reactor Spent Fuel Headed to SRS
SRS is set to accept more foreign research reactor spent fuel, including from Canada and Japan. There is no environmental or proliferation justification for low enriched uranium (LEU) fuels to be accepted from Canada or other countries.
SRS Watch Requests Modified Agreement with Germany for Research on Illegal Plan to Export Spent Fuel to SRS
Savannah River Site Watch has filed another Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for an amended “work for others” agreement between SRS (Savannah River National Lab) and the Jülicher Entsorgungsgesellschaft für Nuklearanlagen (JEN).
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Japan’s plutonium stockpile remain proliferation threat
Japan reports domestically and to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it continues to stockpile a large amount of weapon-usable plutonium. Japan should make an official announcement that its bungled plan to reprocess spent nuclear reactor fuel in the problem-plagued Rokkasho facility,