Please Attend! – agenda linked here
SRS Watch representative to make public comment, especially on misguided “dumping for profit” scheme to dump highly radioactive German waste on SRS
photo: casks at Juelich,
MOX PORK SET TO GET MASSIVE SLICE!
On September 13, 2018 the US House passed US DOE funding for Fiscal Year 2019. As the Senate has already passed the appropriations funding it now goes to the president to be signed into law.
“Savannah River Site F and H Area [High Level Nuclear Waste] Tank Farms – NRC Onsite Observation Visit”
by Savannah River Remediation, August 13-14, 2018, made public by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on September 12, 2018
Document URL in NRC’s digital library (ADAMS): https://adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/webSearch2/main.jsp?AccessionNumber=ML18247A080
WARNING: MOX boondoggle at SRS about to be Slammed by Funding Storm!
Worker evacuation to other jobs is under way as abuse to taxpayers is weakened!
Trump White House Supports Fiscal Year 2019 Appropriations Agreement with Massive Cut to MOX Boondoggle –
Upcoming Dates on Energy & Nuclear Issues Important to South Carolinians, September 7, 2018
SRS Watch – Friends of the Earth Nuclear Calendar PDF – linked here
September 11, 10 a.m. – S.C. legislature’s Public Utilities Review Committee (PURC) –
Important US DOE document on preparation of plutonium oxide at Los Alamos for the “dilute & dispose” method of plutonium disposition (as an alternative to the failed MOX method)
“ARIES Oxide Production Program Dilute and Dispose LCCE Overview,
Material Management and Minimization Program”
Los Alamos National Laboratory / Pit Disassembly and Processing
Los Alamos,
Congressional Appropriators Render Huge Blow to MOX Boondoggle
– September 10, 2018 – MOX Cut by a Massive One-third, and Spending on MOX Construction can be Waived
MOX TO BE DEVASTATED! When passed by the full Congress,
It’s crazy to plan to shuttle plutonium around just to please a court that hasn’t followed the plutonium disposition program – watch for more push-back from Nevada.
“Supplemental Analysis for the Removal of One Metric Ton of Plutonium from the State of South Carolina to Nevada, Texas and New Mexico”
DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration,
If you want to learn how DOE’s Savannah River Site (Near Aiken, SC) fits into the DOE nuclear weapons complex take a look at this report by the Congressional Research Service, Sept. 6, 2018.
SRS is home to the other massive, failed nuclear construction project in the state: the $17-billion plutonium fuel ( MOX) factory
“The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex: Overview of Department of Energy Sites”
“Sens. Heinrich, Udall ask Perry to suspend order on nuclear oversight” – in order to protect essential roe of Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) at DOE sites
anta Fe New Mexican, Sept. 5, 2018 – article linked here
Letter from Senators Heinrich and Udall, September 5, 2018 – linked here
Obtained by SRS Watch –
$9 billion nuclear reactor debacle of South Carolina Electric & Gas exposed in Sierra Magazine, September/October edition
“A Nuclear Energy Meltdown Scrambles Southern Politics – South Carolinians have some of the highest electricity bills in the country, thanks in part to nuclear energy”
article,
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) – including member group SRS Watch – take action to protect the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB), important independent oversight body for DOE sites
On the eve of an important public hearing by the independent DOE oversight panel – Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB),
DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration’s “REPLY BRIEF FOR APPELLANTS” in matter of federal court proceedings concerning the termination of the MOX boondoggle and removal of plutonium from South Carolina
REPLY BRIEF FOR APPELLANTS, filed with Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals – linked here
SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT (from the filing)
South Carolina’s theory of the case relies on the incorrect assumption that the Department of Energy (DOE) has decided to leave plutonium in South Carolina permanently.
More Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Requests Filed by SRS Watch – Update
As DOE and Other Federal Agencies Staunchly Refuse to Create an On-Line Library and Post Documents Key to Public Understanding of Publicly Funded Operations, We Have to Use FOIA and Other Methods to Find Out What They are Up To!
MOX Chaos at SRS Deepens – Qualified Workers Jumping Ship at Unprecedented Pace
MOX Workers: Keep Jumping Ship as this Situation Won’t last much Longer
As the debate over funding for the MOX debacle continues in Congress – all committees agree to a track to final &
Aging H-Canyon Reprocessing Plant at SRS Hits 63-years Old, Still being Pushed to Operate Despite Diminished State
SRS Watch news, August 21, 2018: SRS report provided to SRS Watch via a Freedom of Information Act request reveals decayed state of H-Canyon reprocessing plant radioactive gas exhaust tunnel
Given operational problems and aging of the facility,
SRS Watch in article on how the plutonium fuel (MOX) debacle is again being set up for termination by Congress and DOE:
“MOX protection not included in defense authorization measure signed by Trump”
Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, August 14, 2018
Key documents accompanying the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2019 –
Meeting in Columbia, South Carolina on the uranium leak at the Westinghouse fuel plant – August 30, 6:30 p.m.
LOWER RICHLAND COMMUNITY MEETINGS
WITH COUNCILMAN NORMAN JACKSON
6:30 p.m.- 8:30 p.m. Thursday, August 30, 2018 Lower Richland Sheriff Substation 2615 Lower Richland Blvd., Columbia, Topic: Water,
MOX Debacle Layoffs Likely Coming Starting October 1 – Start of Fiscal Year 2019 – No Matter What Happens
Did you notice that the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2019 – signed into law on August 13 – only “authorizes” $220 million for MOX construction and includes language allowing the Secretary of Energy to “waive”
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Inspection of Bungled MOX Construction Project Reveals Violation with Faulty Welds
– Why is the media avoiding covering this issue?
“MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY- NRC INSPECTION REPORT
NUMBER 70-3098/2018-003,” August 7, 2018 –
HOT NEWS FLASH – August 6, 2018 (Hiroshima Day)
Federal judge denies SCE&G’s request for “preliminary injunction” to halt a reduction in customers’ bills for failed nuclear reactor project at VC Summer!
Starting August 7 the nuclear charge will be reduced from
18% to 3.2% of a customer’s bill.
“Hiroshima Remembrance,” August 5, 2-4 p.m., State Museum in Columbia, South Carolina.
As SRS profiteers ponder an expanded and unjustified role for nuclear weapons production at SRS, on the 73rd anniversary of the bombing, there will be a “Hiroshima Remembrance,” August 5,
“NNSA Must Solve Pit Problems This Year, STRATCOM Commander Says”
Exchange Monitor, August 3, 2018 – article linked here
The Pentago takes on Senator Graham and boosters of the costly MOX debacle…
Article by SRS Watch on the MOX fiasco in the Summer 2018 “South Carolina Sierran,” of the South Carolina Chapter of the Sierra Club
“United States Department of Energy Takes Steps to Halt Bungled Plutonium MOX Project at Savannah River Site: Judge Places Decision on Hold”
Also see other environmental stories of interest in the newsletter,
Posted by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on July 30, 2018:
SAVANNAH RIVER SITE SALT WASTE DISPOSAL [of high-level waste by-product]
NRC Onsite Observation Visit
July 9-11, 2018
“Annual Radioactive Waste Tank Inspection Program – 2017, July 2018”
by Savannah River Remediation (contractor)
Report “SRR-STI-2018-00146 Revision 1” – linked here
NOTE: The document was posted on August 28, 2018 in the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s digital library (ADAMS).
House-Senate Conference Committee on Defense Bill Authorizes Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Termination by Secretary of Energy
Columbia, SC – The House and Senate have agreed to language in the defense bill which would allow termination of the problem-plagued MOX project now under increasing duress at the DOE’s Savannah River Site.
SRS Watch in article on failed plutonium MOX project, painfully headed towards termination at the Savannah River Site
“South Carolina Fights U.S. Plan to Abandon Nuclear Project Employing 1,800 – Department of Energy is spending $1.2 million a day on facility designed to dispose of surplus weapons-grade plutonium”
Blindly pro-MOX US federal judge in Columbia, SC steps back and passes the issue of the status of the MOX project termination to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, VA, which has already, in response to DOE’s appeal, set a hearing on the matter for September 25-28, 2018
Filed in State of South Carolina v. United States, Docket 1:18-cv-01431 on July 16, 2018:
TEXT ORDER: This matter is before the court pursuant to Defendants’
SRS Watch in: “DOE memo: MOX support could jeopardize other Savannah River Site missions”
“The Department of Energy is signaling to South Carolina authorities that its effort to keep the mixed oxide facility alive could be jeopardizing other opportunities — including the proposed pit mission at Savannah River Site,