This is Very Worrying: SRS Action Against the Virus Comes Late, After Public Already Acting
The DOE’s Savannah River Site (SRS) on the afternoon of Monday, March 23, 2020 moved to “mission-critical activities.” Due to the foolishness of bringing together a large number of workers at a single site, SRS Watch has been pushing for the site to halt “non-essential” activities given the COVID-19 threat. Our warnings were ignored until now….
Read the back & forth between SRS Watch and SRS on the matter of operations at the site in the face of the COVID-19 threat:
Savannah River Operations Office on COVID 19 March 23 2020 and earlier
SRS, which employs about 11,000 people that commute some distance to the site, has until now failed to showed leadership and dodged and weaved and only took minimal steps and was monitoring the situation. DOE bragged last week that the site was “fully operational” even in the face of the national emergency declared by President Trump.
Given that a worker at SRS has tested positive for COVID-19, the suite finally took action. Will non-essential operations like the H-Canyon reprocessing plant be safely shut down and placed on stand-by. We certainly anticipate that an adequate guard force will remain to protect nuclear materials, like plutonium and highly enriched uranium. Planning for nuclear war, via the effort to locate a Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at SRS, must now be halted.
Photo: SRS signs near the Jackson, SC entrance, by SRS Watch