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Archives for October 2019

Public Forum on SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant & Lessons Learned from the Rocky Flats Plutonium Disaster, Nov. 12, Aiken, SC

SRSW · October 30, 2019 ·

SRS Watch news on NNSA’s Proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant at Savannah River Site and Lessons Learned from the Rocky Flats Plutonium Disaster – Forum in Aiken, SC on November 12,

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

Questions Raised by GAO about Plutonium Downblending at SRS

SRSW · October 23, 2019 ·

Surplus Plutonium Disposition: NNSA’s Long-Term Plutonium Oxide Production Plans Are Uncertain

GAO-20-166: Published: Oct 23, 2019. Publicly Released: Oct 23, 2019.

The National Nuclear Security Administration manages 57.2 metric tons of surplus plutonium.

Filed Under: Latest News

Public Interest Groups Push Back Against DOE’s New Nuclear Bomb Plant at Y-12 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee

SRSW · October 23, 2019 ·

“Citizen Groups File Motion to Enforce Court Order Vacating NNSA Decision on Uranium Processing Facility Construction”

If DOE/NNSA continues to move toward the unauthorized Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at SRS without following the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA),

Filed Under: Latest News

Problems Keep Coming at Westinghouse Uranium Nuclear Fuel Plant in Columbia, SC – Big Accident Lurking?

SRSW · October 23, 2019 ·

SRS Watch director in “Nuclear workers hospitalized; Columbia plant runs afoul of safety rules – again”

The State, Columbia, South Carolina, October 23, 2019- on line &

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Plutonium Disaster at DOE’s Rocky Flats: Red Alert for NO Plutonium Bomb Plant at SRS

SRSW · October 21, 2019 ·

Rocky Flats Disaster: Red Light for SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant

Public Forum on Tuesday, November 12, 7: 00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. at the Aiken,

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

DOE Reports Nationwide Amounts of DOE and Commercial Spent Fuel Inventories – Problem Getting Worse as No Long-term Disposition Plan Exists

SRSW · October 21, 2019 ·

Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste Inventory Report, prepared for DOE, September 2019

83,500 MT of commercial spent fuel & 2300 MT of DOE spent fuel

“This report provides information on the inventory of commercial spent fuel (SNF) and high-level
radioactive waste (HLW) in the United States,

Filed Under: Latest News

DOE Oversight Board Meets on Safety of Tritium Facilities (for Nuclear Weapons) at SRS – DNFSB to Discuss NNSA’s Rejection of Board Recommendation

SRSW · October 18, 2019 ·

“The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board will hold a public meeting to provide an opportunity for the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration to brief the Board on their basis for rejecting Recommendation 2019-2 and the actions completed,

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Secretary of Energy Perry to Bail Out of Trump’s Deepening Muck – But a Bit Too Late to Avoid the Splatter?

SRSW · October 17, 2019 ·

“Perry Tells Trump He Will Resign as Energy Secretary –

Rick Perry, the former governor of Texas who has become enmeshed in the Ukraine scandal, said he would resign as secretary of energy.”

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A Public-Interest Hero Passes; Martin Forwood’s Work Against Reprocessing at Sellafield Nuclear Complex, UK Resulted in a Victory for the Environment and Public

SRSW · October 17, 2019 ·

A giant has fallen. Martin Forwood was a highly respected campaigner and friend of SRS Watch and will be sorely missed. His tireless work gainst spent fuel reprocessing at the THORP facility Sellafield in the UK resulted in ultimate victory.

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Nevada seeks to restart lawsuit over needless plutonium shipment from SRS

SRSW · October 17, 2019 ·

Good for the State of Nevada. There is no need to be shipping plutonium from SRS to other sites with no final destination and absent disposition plans.

“Nevada seeks to restart lawsuit over US plutonium shipment”

Filed Under: Latest News

Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board to Meet on DOE Spent Fuel Storage, Including that Stored in the L-Basin at SRS

SRSW · October 16, 2019 ·

It’s about time that somebody pushed SRS on exploring dry cask storage of spent fuel (vs reprocessing in the aged H-Canyon). They have been dragging their feet on that for many,

Filed Under: Latest News

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Reviews Disposal of High-Level Waste Byproducts in “Salt Disposal Units” at SRS

SRSW · October 15, 2019 ·

“SAVANNAH RIVER SITE SALT WASTE DISPOSAL NRC Onsite Observation Visit, September 17, 2019”

https://adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/webSearch2/main.jsp?AccessionNumber=ML19281C983

“FIELD OBSERVATION PHOTOS FROM SAVANNAH RIVER SITE SALT WASTE DISPOSAL –

Filed Under: Latest News

Drill at SRS Tritium Facilities Observed by Safety Board, Problems Revealed

SRSW · October 10, 2019 ·

Drill at SRS facilities processing tritium – radioactive gas used to boost the explosive power of nuclear weapons – runs into snags

The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB),

Filed Under: Latest News

Opinion Against Unjustified “Plutonium Bomb Plant” at SRS: “Expanding nuclear weapon production is reckless”

SRSW · October 9, 2019 ·

As Congress discusses defense authorization & spending for Fiscal Year 2020, good to see this opinion column against unjustified plutonium “pit” production at SRS (in a proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant –

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No MOX Case before US Supreme Court – Last Gasp of the Debacle?

SRSW · October 7, 2019 ·

Looks like South Carolina Attorney Wilson has failed in his last-gasp attempt to get a hearing about termination of the MOX boondoggle onto the docket of the US Supreme Court.

Filed Under: Latest News

SC Dept of Labor, Licensing and Regulation Takes a Dodge, Declines to Hold Disciplinary Hearing Against Westinghouse re VC Summer AP1000 Reactor Design Certification

SRSW · October 4, 2019 ·

The South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation (LLR) has declined to open a formal disciplinary hearing against Westinghouse concerning information that design of the AP1000 reactors at the VC Summer site were not stamped by board-certified engineers.

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“Coverup charged at MOX plant” – Who is blocking investigations into fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement? Senator Lindsey Graham and Rep. Joe Wilcon?

SRSW · October 3, 2019 ·

 

SRS Watch in “Coverup charged at MOX plant”

Lexington County (South Carolina) Chronicle, Wed, 10/02/2019, by Jerry Bellune, jerrybellune@yahoo.com

Washington is covering up a failed $51 billion plutonium fuel project 40 minutes from Lexington County.

Filed Under: Latest News

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