The US Senate “report” that goes along with the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 is out. Amongst a host of things, the plutonium pit issue gets some oversight.
Archives for June 2020
Employee at High Enriched Uranium Facility in Virginia Dies, SRS Watch Inquires, June 29
SRS Watch has inquired of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission about the death of an employee at the BWXT highly enriched uranium (HEU) facility in Lynchburg, VA.
NATIONAL NETWORK OF WATCHDOG GROUPS OPPOSES FUNDING FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS TEST PREPARATION: CALLS PROPOSAL “DANGEROUSLY DESTABILIZING”
NATIONAL NETWORK OF WATCHDOG GROUPS OPPOSES FUNDING FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS TEST PREPARATION:
CALLS PROPOSAL “DANGEROUSLY DESTABILIZING” AND “ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE.”
Today, three-dozen nuclear watchdog organizations,
Groups Petition DOE to Stop Stalling on Pit Production Legal Requirements; Stage Set for Environmental Lawsuit
WATCHDOG GROUPS FILE LEGAL PETITION WITH ENERGY DEPT: Allege Agency is Slow Walking “Record of Decision” Re: Plutonium Bomb Core Production to Prevent Judicial Review; Stage Set for Litigation on Expanded Production
June 24,
House Armed Services Subcommittee Fails to Affirm $R$ Plutonium Bomb Plant in Mark-Up of Defense Authorization
SRS nuclear war boosters – contractors & NNSA deep staters – sweating bullets over lack of $R$ Plutonium Bomb Plant being affirmed by key House subcommittee
The US House Subcommittee on Strategic Forces (of the Armed Services Committee) today sent a strong signal that the $R$ Plutonium Bomb Plant has weak support.
“Failed [MOX] Plutonium Project’s Final Chapter Is Fire Sale for Parts”
“Failed [MOX] Plutonium Project’s Final Chapter Is Fire Sale for Parts”
By Ari Natter, Bloomberg, June 18, 2020
U.S. conversion factory’s equipment is on the auction block
After $8 billion spent,
Secretive Sale of Surplus MOX Equipment by NNSA Perpetuates Cover-Up of Bungled MOX Project
Secretive Sale of Surplus MOX Equipment by NNSA Perpetuates Cover-Up of Bungled MOX Project, Exposes Lack of Accountability to Taxpayers for Money Wasted on Construction and Equipment
MOX Project Wasted Vast Sums of Money on Stockpiling Huge Amounts of Equipment that Project Managers Knew would be Obsolete when the Project Began Operation – Investigations Needed
Columbia,
Noted expert: “Why a decision on a second US plutonium-pit-production factory should be delayed” – Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, June 12, 2020
Noted nuclear non-proliferation expert Dr. Frank von Hippel speaks up against the proposed, unjustified SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant:
“Why a decision on a second US plutonium-pit-production factory should be delayed”
Storage of Highly Enriched Uranium at Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Facility in TN is “Unsafe” – Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB)
Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (OREP) raises concern about safety of storage of highly enriched uranium (HEU) – bomb-grade uranium – at DOE’s Y-12 nuclear weapons facility in Oak Ridge,
Are Tritium Operations at SRS Safe? Tritium Gas, Processed at SRS, is Used in Nuclear Weapons to Boost the Blast
BOOM!!! Tritium in Nuclear Warheads = Boosted Nuclear Explosive Force; SRS Watch Requests Report
This National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) notice in the June 11, 2020 Federal Register underscores that the postponed meeting by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) on SRS tritium operations needs to be held ASAP.
Former SCE&G Nuclear Official Committed Fraud in Failed Reactor Construction Project in South Carolina; Lawyers in Nuclear Ripoff Under Investigation
Stephen Bryne, former official with South Carolina Electric & Gas (SCE&G – taken over by Dominion Energy – admits fraud in the failed construction of two new nuclear reactors at the VC Summer site in South Carolina.
Public, Organizations Slam DOE’s Draft EIS on Proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP); Challenge Dangerous Plans for Full-Scale Nuclear War
Numerous Comments Submitted on NNSA’s Draft EIS on the SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant; Question Need for Expanding Plutonium “Pit” Production to SRS, Call for Programmatic EIS to Review Pit Need
In Bizarre and Dangerous Twist,