The Barnwell reprocessing plant in South Carolina, adjacent to the Savannah River Site, thankfully never operated, thus sparing South Carolina huge volumes of highly radioactive nuclear waste and separated weapon-usable plutonium.
Archives for February 2024
Congress aiming to weaken nuclear power regulation of US Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Legislation merits opposition
Photo: Unit 3 at Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle, Georgia, started operation in August 2023; cover photo: units 3 and 4 (unit 4 is due to start operation in the 2nd quarter 2024,
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Paves Way for Increase in Production of Tritium for Nuclear Weapons, Further Undermining Nuclear Non-Proliferation Norms; Tritium Processing at SRS to Increase
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Paves Way for Increase in Production of Tritium for Nuclear Weapons, Further Undermining Nuclear Non-Proliferation Norms and Keeping U.S. on Nuclear War Footing
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BOOM goes South Carolina in Nuclear Blast?!
Was the confused orange candidate raising the specter of South Carolina being hit by a massive nuclear weapon – from whom? – due to the DOE’s Savannah River Site being located here?
Nuclear Reactor Construction Debacle: SRS Watch Views New Nuclear Reactors at Vogtle Site in Georgia
Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle: new Westinghouse AP1000 reactors – unit 4 on left (under criticality testing) and unit 3 on right (operating), reactor buildings are white, at the base of the cooling towers –
Nuclear Waste from Japan, Bearing Weapon-Grade Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium, Soon to be Processed at SRS, Dumped into Waste Tanks
Materials from Japan containing significant amounts of weapon-grade plutonium and bomb-grade uranium – so-called Fast Critical Assemblies (FCAs) – were shipped by sea to the Savannah River Site,