BREAKING NEWS: US DOE rammed through a decision to bring the 900 kg of “gap” plutonium to SRS, including 236 kg of UK-origin plutonium at the FCA in Japan. No public input solicited – so much for government openness and transparency….
EA-2024: Finding of No Significant Impact
“Gap Material Plutonium – Transport, Receipt, and Processing” – December 28, 2015 – posted Dec. 29
http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/12/f27/EA-2024-FONSI-2015.pdf
Looks like the decision is for sea shipment but a “national security exemption” could still be issued for air transport Nuclear transport ships Pacific Egret & Pacific Heron still in Barrow, UK today, according to a contact there.
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SRS Watch news release, December 29:
As US DOE Refuses to Act in Public Interest and Release “Draft Environmental Assessment” on Import of Up to 900 Kilograms of “Gap” Plutonium to Savannah River Site, SRS Watch Releases Document
Public has Right to Know Plans to Import Plutonium to SRS in Conjunction with Upcoming “Nuclear Security Summit;” Plutonium Will be Stranded with No Clear Disposition Path Out of South Carolina