South Carolina Environmental Law project (SCELP) takes on the issue of environmental review of production for plutonium pits for nuclear weapons!

Read about it and more admirable work of SCELP in their February 2021 news update.

“Even more consequentially, we asked the U.S. Department of Energy to respond to calls for a robust,  and legally mandated, environmental review of plans to expand production of plutonium “pits”—cores for nuclear weapons—at the Savannah River Site in Aiken and the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico.”

“After the V.C. Summer disaster, and the failed MOX facility at the Savannah River Site, the last thing we need in South Carolina is another boondoggle costing billions more taxpayer dollars, while putting our environment and citizens at risk from radioactive and toxic waste from plutonium production.”

SCELP monthly news update linked here:  https://scelp.salsalabs.org/february2021

SCELP filing of February 10, 2021 with DOE/NNSA:  https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5f2c352f324853b8b51c50db/6026d57a783019fa720a89cb_Feb%202021%20letter%20to%20DOE.pdf