Do challenges in plutonium pit fabrication for a new ICBM pose the risk of a return to nuclear weapons testing in Nevada?
“As America’s Nuclear Arsenal Upgrades, Usual Testing is Scrapped”
Archives for June 2023
State Department Promises to Drag its Feet in Providing Information on Nuclear Waste from Spain to the U.S. – Re 1966 Palomares Nuclear Weapons Accident that Scattered Plutonium near Palomares, Spain, with Waste Dumped at SRS
U,S. State Department won’t respond until November 2025 to an information request about more nuclear waste that could come to SRS from a nuclear weapons accident in Spain in 1996!
Difficulties of finding plutonium pit workers in New Mexico; but plutonium pit staffing problems worse at SRS has no nuclear-bomb manufacturing experience & no experience since 1980s in processing molten plutonium
This article about new nuclear bomb production at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico is of importance because the same thing is happening at SRS. The “defense”
In Response to NNSA’s Refusal to Release Information on Plutonium Pit Aging, SRS Watch Files FOIA Requests
DOE is using “pit aging” as a justification to fabricate new pits for new nuclear weapons. We challenge them to back up their claim with scientific data!
SRS Watch Updates Long String of Public Interest Victories Over Misguided SRS projects
Major Savannah River Site (SRS) Public Interest Victories – For a Cleaner, Safer Site
Stopped operation of the Allied General Nuclear Services (AGNS) reprocessing plant,
SRS Watch Requests Nonproliferation Review of Production of HALEU (Uranium Enriched to 20% U-235)
SRS Watch, in response to a DOE notice that an Environmental Impact Statement would be prepared on production and availability of High Assay Low Enriched Uranium (HALEU), has requested that a Nonproliferation Impact Assessment (NPIA) be prepared related to the HALEU program.