Thanks to Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Hanford Challenge, SRS Watch and other public interest groups for this! Our letter to DOE requesting an extension of the comment period is available on request: srswatch@gmail.com.
Archives for December 2019
In Response to SRS Watch and Other Groups, Comment Period Extended on SRS Waste Dumping Plan
In response to a request by SRS Watch and other public interest groups, the comment period for a plan to dump 10,000 gallons of SRS high-level waste as low-level waste has been extended.
SRS Glovebox Panel Cracked while Handling Plutonium Can: Occurrence Report on Nov. 13, 2019 event with “no contamination detected”
Glovebox Handling Surplus Plutonium Can Cracked During Surveillance
Occurrence Report Number: EM-SR–SRNS-KAREA-2019-0002 –
Cracked KIS Glovebox Panel (U)
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Cracked KIS Glovebox Panel (U)
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DOE IG Report Exposes Some of Failed MOX Project Mismanagement; More Investigations Needed
Tip of the MOX debacle mismanagement: “Subcontract Administration at the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility”
– by DOE Inspector General, released December 17, 2019
Report linked on IG website: https://www.energy.gov/ig/downloads/audit-report-doe-oig-20-16
We continue to ask: where are needed investigations into waste,
Letter in Aiken Newspaper: Proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at SRS is “Ill-Advised and Unnecessary”
“Letter: Plutonium pits aren’t needed”
Aiken (South Carolina) Standard, December 16, 2019
“According to a Dec. 11 story in the Aiken Standard, the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) authorizes the production of 50 plutonium pits per year at the Savannah River Site.
Barnwell, SC nuclear waste dump & SC DHEC thumb nose at SC Supreme Court
Based on observation by members of SRS Watch on December 5, 29019, it looks like no covers have been put over the waste disposal trenches at the Barnwell low-level nuclear waste dump,
Old Barnwell Reprocessing Plant Stands as Tribute to Failed Idea
Photo by SRS Watch, December 5, 2019: The looming hulk of the long-shuttered Allied-General Nuclear Services (AGNS) reprocessing plant near Barnwell, South Carolina (and adjacent to the DOE’s Savannah River Site).
FOIA Request on Repurposing of the MOX Plant to a Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP): Documents to SRS Watch by December 5, 2019?
Per requirements of the Freedom of Information Act, will DOE provide documents to SRS Watch by December 5, 2019 on the conversion of MOX plant to a Plutonium Bomb Plant?
Japan’s Plutonium Stockpile in the UK is a Costly, Worthless Burden – What to do with it?
What to do with Japan’s plutonium stockpile at the Sellafield nuclear site in the UK? It has a huge negative value.
“What should be done with Japan’s plutonium now stored in the UK?