On October 28, 2026, a fire in a lab at the Savannah River National Lab was reported, with at least one worker harmed and radiation released. Here’s our first take on the alarming situation.
Archives for October 2026
German Highly Radioactive Spent Fuel not Dumped at SRS Unnecessarily on the Move in Germany, from Jülich to Ahaus
German highly radioactive spent fuel (uranium impregnated graphite balls) on the move – almost got dumped on SRS but for citizen and SRS Citizen Advisory Board opposition:
“A 60,000-pound steel cask holding up to 1,900 graphite fuel balls from a German reactor shut down 38 years ago rolled out at 10:40 at night under a police helicopter and reached a storage hall 105 miles away at 1:40 a.m.,
NRC Releases List of Drones Spotted Over US Nuclear Plants, 2024-2026; Reminds of US SRS “Drone Scare” Hype in 2016
NRC listing of drones reported over various US nuclear power plants, 2024-2026, posted in the NRC’s digital library on October 26, 2026 – includes Oconee & VC Summer in South Carolina –
“US government’s dangerous rush to produce new plutonium pits,” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, October 22, 2026
“The US government’s dangerous rush to produce new plutonium pits”
>> article by Dr. Dylan Spaulding, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Curtis T. Asplund, assistant professor in the Department of Physics &
DOE okays construction of the next home for the nation’s largest supply of nuclear warhead triggers
Georgia Public Broadcasting, Wednesday, October 20, 2026
“On Monday, the Department of Energy (DOE) issued its approval of full-scale construction at the SRPPF to produce up to 125 war reserve plutonium pits annually.
DOE Refuses to Release New Cost Estimate for SRS Plutonium Pit Plant – Why? Cost Expected to be more than $15+ Billion over 2021 Estimate
DOE Hides Just-Approved, Official Cost Estimate of SRS Plutonium Pit Plant, Keeps
Public in the Dark about Size of Escalating Cost for New Nuclear Weapons Facility,
Old B&W Post-WWII Movies Posted by DOE, from Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Days
“AEC Films Available Online at the National Archives”
Check out the post-WWII nuclear movies posted by DOE’s Office of Legacy Management:
https://www.energy.gov/lm/atomic-energy-commission-films-available-online
“The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), established in 1946,
ATTENTION: No Containment Planned for newcleo’s MOX-Fueled Lead-Cooled Reactors at SRS!
ATTENTION please: NO containment structure planned for newcleo lead-cooled reactors planned for SRS! newcleo plans for its plutonium-fueled (MOX) lead-cooled fast reactors to have “functional containment”
Confirmation that Plutonium “Dilute & Dispose” Program Ended, Equipment Transferred to Plutonium Pit Project
DOE has confirmed, via a weekly report of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB), that the program at SRS to dispose of surplus weapons plutonium as waste – in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico –
Alert! Proposal for Another Costly Plutonium Fuel “Factory” at SRS – MOX2.0?! newcleo Bumbles into Plutonium Proliferation La La Land
Hold on, Monsieur, we’re not sure your expensive SRS plutonium dreams will survive close examination….
The first attempt to build a plutonium fuel (MOX) plant –