In an interview with Nikkei Asia, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has confirmed that a new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) is getting underway., as anticipated. The NPR will review new nuclear warheads for which new plutonium pits will be made –
Archives for March 2021
Articles: Plutonium pit production at proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant under review? Plutonium “disposition” at SRS via H-Canyon reprocessing plant into waste tanks
SRS Watch in two plutonium articles of interest, both posted in the Aiken Standard on March 17, 2021:
“Ongoing ‘review’ forces Pentagon official to pull out of SC pit production briefing”
Proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant Faces More Challenges – Appears to be Under Review
Plutonium pit project – initially to produce pits for new warheads (first W87-1, then W93) – under formal review? The unneeded, unjustified the SRS Plutonium Bomb plant is coming under increasing scrutiny.
Follow the money: “INSIDE THE ICBM LOBBY: SPECIAL INTERESTS OR THE NATIONAL INTERESTS”
Read why the proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant is not needed to make new plutonium pits for the new ICBM (with W87-1 warhead), while Northrop Grumman gets rich: “INSIDE THE ICBM LOBBY: SPECIAL INTERESTS OR THE NATIONAL INTERESTS”
SRS Watch to NRC: Release Secret Draft EA on High-Assay LEU Production at Piketon, for Public Comment
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is quietly moving toward licensing a Centrus facility in Piketon, Ohio to produce “high-assay low- enriched uranium” (HALEU). Why the secrecy?
HALEU is 5% to 20% enriched in uranium-235,
“U.S. continues push to restart plutonium pit production” at SRS and Los Alamos, for Preparation for All-Out Nuclear War and not Deterrence
“U.S. continues push to restart plutonium pit production”
Physics Today, March 5, 2021
“The government is preparing two facilities to fabricate the cores of nuclear weapons despite concerns over the safety and necessity of the endeavor.”
34 Metric Tons of Plutonium – Yes, 34! – Could be Headed to SRS for Fabrication in K-Area into Fuel for Unjustified Reactor – But Trouble Awaits the Project
“New reactor fuel mission floated for SRS, DOE documents show”
Aiken (South Carolina) Standard, March 5, 2021, article linked here:
Comments on draft EIS on the VTR by Tom Clements,