DOE propaganda presentation on pits is woefully inadequate and fails to make the case for expanded pit production. Is this all they can come up with to sell new plutonium pit production for a new and unneeded nuclear warhead (“W87-1-like”)?!
Archives for November 2019
Eight New Cracks in Aging High-Level Radioactive Waste Tanks Found, SRS Contractor Says Structural Integrity OK; Groundwater Plumes Monitored
“Annual Radioactive Waste Tank Inspection Program – 2018,” June 2019
“Rainwater continues periodically to be observed migrating into the annuli of some tanks. Evidence of this infiltration was primarily noted by observation of surface stains,
Exemption Sought to Ship Plutonium-238 Tanks from SRS to WIPP
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued an exemption to Nuclear Waste Partnerships. LLC to ship 2 boxes of transuranic waste from SRS to the DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico.
Disaster at Rocky Flats Plutonium Pit Site Holds Lessons for Proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant
FBI agent who raided Rocky Flats Plant to speak
Albuquerque (New Mexico) Journal, November 17, 2019
SANTA FE, N.M. — Jon Lipsky is a retired federal agent with a big notch in his gun – he shut down a plant that made plutonium parts for the nation’s nuclear weapons.
NNSA Must Comply with a Host of Things before Proceeding Further on SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP)
Among other things, DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNA) must halt proceeding on plans for the unauthorized and unfunded SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PMP) until the following (and other) things are complied with.
Uh oh…Discovery of Contamination in SRS Radiological Protection Department Office
“Occurrence Report” for radioactive contamination in a “clean area” of the SRS high-level waste vitrification plant (Defense Waste Process Facility)
On October 22, 2019,
Thanks to the League of Women Voters of SC for Opposing the Proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP)
“League of Women Voters S.C. opposes pit production at Savannah River Site”
“The League of Women Voters of South Carolina opposes the production of nuclear weapon cores,
Presentations by Speakers at Nov. 12 Events on SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant & Rocky Flats Plutonium Pit-Production Disaster
Focus of Presentations: Why the proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant at SRS is Dangerous and unnecessary & and Lessons Learned from the DOE’s Rocky Flats Disaster with Plutonium Pit Production in Colorado
Rocky Flats Disaster: Red Light for SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant,
Media Coverage of Nov. 12 Events on Unneeded “Plutonium Bomb Plant” at SRS & Lessons from the Rocky Flats Plutonium Disaster
Here are links to print articles, TV coverage and livestream of the Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) news conference and forum that were held on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 –
NNSA’s Violation of FOIA on Conversion of MOX Plant to Plutonium Bomb Plant is Challenged
Lawyer for SRS Watch demands response from DOE to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents on “repurposing” the shuttered plutonium fuel (MOX) plant into a Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP).
Plutonium Bomb Plant Forum on Nov. 12: Article in Aiken, SC Paper, Nov 11, 2019
“Watchdogs to warn of SRS pit production risks during public forum”
Aiken, SC paper, Nov. 11, 2019
SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) – Two Events on Tues., Nov. 12 by SRS Watch, in Aiken, SC, Augusta, GA
Proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) Focus of Public Two Events on Novembers 12, 2019 in Augusta, Georgia & Aiken, South Carolina
News Conference &
“ROCKY FLATS DISASTER: RED LIGHT for SRS PLUTONIUM BOMB PLANT” – Free Event on Nov. 12 in Aiken, SC
Public Forum on SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) coming on November 12 in Aiken, South Carolina – Please attend
The ad on the event in Aiken,