The new CDU-Green coalition in the North Rhine-Westphalia government has negative implications for the decade-long effort to dump German spent fuel on the Savannah River Site. That spent fuel is from the long-closed AVR gas-cooled reactor and the spent fuel is stored at Jülich.
Archives for June 2022
Requirements placed on plutonium pit production by House Armed Services committee
A skeptical Congress is finally beginning to put some requirements on plutonium pit production, for new nuclear weapons, in the face of DOE’s effort to move forward without constraints.
Will DOE dare issue EIS “Record of Decision” on Zombie Reactor? The Versatile Test Reactor, project killed by Congress, merits investigation by DOE’s OIG
Zombie project stays in the crypt: The Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) was defunded by Congress in March 2022 and therefore killed. But some die-hard backers in DOE still keep after the reactor,
SRS Watch Rocks Against Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at Bonnie Raitt Concerts
SRS Watch staff and volunteers were asked to table at the Bonnie Raitt/Lucinda Williams concerts in Charlotte, NC on June1, 2022 and in Columbia, SC on June 4,