Exposing the “Conspiracy Reality” of On-Going Planning at the Savannah River Site (SRS) for Full-Scale Nuclear War
Presentation by Tom Clements,
SRS & Growing Nuclear Weapons Role: Talks April 28 (Aiken, SC) – with linked presentation – and May 10 (Columbia, SC)
You are encouraged to attend one of these talks about the role of Savannah River Site in the nuclear arms race and enter into constructive dialogue about what the public can do to challenge the massive waste of resources on the nuclear buildup and the security and environmental threat it poses.
Excellent article on NNSA’s scheme to make new plutonium pits: “DOGE’s staff firing fiasco at the nuclear weapon agency means everything but efficiency,” April 16, 2025, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists
As we prepare for a Federal Register notice on environmental meetings on the impact of plutonium pit production at SRS and Los Alamos, this article is very timely.
Imaginary, Risky Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) have No Place in South Carolina Energy Legislation (H 3309)
Reasons the Small Modular Reactor (SMR) sections of the H 3309 energy bill before the South Carolina legislature should be eliminated
Savannah River Site Watch, fact sheet on problems in energy bill with both SMRs and state-funded nuclear industry booster group South Carolina Nuclear Advisory Council (NAC),
Plutonium Pit Lawsuit: “Grassroots Victory in the Fight against Nuclear Weapons Proliferation”
“Justice Prevails: A Grassroots Victory in the Fight against Nuclear Weapons Proliferation”
By Aspen Coriz-Romero, on National Priorities Project website, March 12, 2025
About our federal lawsuit victory against plutonium “pit”
National Nuclear Security Administration’s FY24 “Performance Evaluation Report” for SRS Plutonium “Pit” Plant Reveals Problems: Project Management is “Less than Adequate” and Lacks “Integrated Master Schedule”
Annual Contractor Performance Review Reveals that Proposed DOE Nuclear Weapons Plutonium-Component Facility at Savannah River Site Lacks Master Schedule or Updated Cost Estimate
National Nuclear Security Administration’s FY2024 “Performance Evaluation Report” (PER) for SRS: Plutonium “Pit” Plant Project Management is “Less than Adequate” &
FOIA Request to SRS for Documents on “DEIA” Deletion
SRS Watch has filed a FOIA request with DOE’s Savannah River Site for documents related to “DEIA.”
The request of February 3, 2025 is for the following documents:
Any communication,
“Hot Plutonium Pit Bomb Redux” – Environmental Victory for SRS Watch and Allies Concerning Impact of New Nuclear Weapons Production
“Hot Plutonium Pit Bomb Redux”
CounterPunch, January 31, 2025
Last week U.S. District Judge Mary Lewis Geiger, South Carolina, faulted the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Agency for ignoring the National Environmental Protection Act and rushing plans to fabricate plutonium pit bombs at Savannah River Site,
Historic Settlement Reached in NEPA Lawsuit Over Plutonium “Pit” Bomb Core Production at SRS, Los Alamos
Historic Settlement Reached in NEPA Lawsuit Over Plutonium “Pit” Bomb Core Production
News release, January 17, 2025
AIKEN, S.C. — Nonprofit public interest groups have reached an historic settlement agreement with the Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency,
Safety Board Points Out Tritium Processing Problems at SRS as 2024 Ends
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB), an independent agency that provides oversight of DOE activities, notes more problems at the SRS tritium-handling facilities. SRS process and package all tritium,
Well-deserved Tribute: “JIMMY CARTER: Nuke Watchdog Commemorations,” January 2, 2025
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JIMMY CARTER: Nuke Watchdog Commemorations
January 2, 2025
https://beyondnuclear.org/jimmy-carter-1924-2024-nuke-watchdog-commemorations/
[White House Oval Office photograph, signed by President Carter (October 1,
Thanks to Jimmy Carter for Monumental Non-Proliferation Decision in 1977! No Reprocessing of Spent Fuel at Barnwell, SC
Thank you, Jimmy Carter, for your monumental environmental and non-proliferation decision in 1977! South Carolina and the nation owe you a debt of gratitude.
If not for President Carter’s declaration against the Barnwell spent fuel reprocessing plant (Allied General Nuclear Services),
SRS Watch and Allied Groups nominated for “Arms Control Persons(s) of the Year”!
We’re very honored to have been nominated by the Arms Control Association in Washington, DC for “Arms Control Person(s) of the Year,” along with fellow groups with which we are working!
SRS Watch Statement on Nominee Chris Wright for DOE Secretary – Video Reveals Energy Ignorance
Statement of Tom Clements, Director SRS Watch, on Nomination of Chris Wright as DOE Secretary
November 19, 2024
Based on the video I have seen of Mr.
“DOE’s 2037 Deadlines for SRS: Realistic or Illusory?,” The Aiken Chronicles, Nov. 11, 2024
DOE’s 2037 Deadlines for SRS: Realistic or Illusory?
by Don Moniak, The Aiken Chronicles, November 11, 2024
“The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Savannah River Site (SRS) has two major milestones to achieve by 2037.
Op Ed: “The sad legacy of the Savannah River plutonium plant” – November 6, 2024
“The sad legacy of the Savannah River plutonium plant”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 6, 2024
Op-ed by Allie Maloney, a native Georgian and graduate of the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia,
Update on pit production environmental victory: “Delays, negotiations ongoing in environmental lawsuit over pit production,” Santa Fe New Mexican, Nov. 4, 2024 – Filing Due November 12
Photo: Cover of document obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by SRS Watch and other groups with so many pages blacked out so as to coverup need for research on pit aging.
SRS Watch Celebrates 10 Years of Public-Interest Advocacy for the Environment, Nuclear Nonproliferation
Savannah River Site Watch Celebrates 10 Years of Public-Interest Advocacy for the Environment, Nuclear Nonproliferation
News release linked here: https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/757512140/savannah-river-site-watch-celebrates-10-years-of-public-interest-advocacy-for-the-environment-nuclear-nonproliferation
COLUMBIA, SC, November 4,
“NNSA Loses Environmental Regulation Lawsuit,” on Proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (SRSPBP), Arms Control Today, Nov. 2024
“NNSA Loses Environmental Regulation Lawsuit”
A U.S. District Court judge ruled on Sept. 30 that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) violated the National Environmental Policy Act by failing to conduct a proper analysis of alternatives that takes into consideration environmental impacts after significantly modifying plans for plutonium pit production in 2018.
Westinghouse Official to be Sentenced for Role in South Carolina Nuclear Reactor Construction Debacle at V.C. Summer Site., Nov. 20, 2024 in Federal Court in Columbia, SC
Westinghouse Official to be Sentenced on November 20 for Role in South Carolina Nuclear Reactor Construction Debacle at V.C. Summer Site
Columbia, SC – After various delays,
Drones Over US Nuclear Reactors in 2022, 2023 & 2024: US NRC FOIA Response
Drones spotted over US nuclear reactors in 2022, 2023 and 2024 – US Nuclear Regulatory Commission lists in response to Freedom of Information Act request
These lists are interesting but don’t reveal if the drones flights were by hobbyists or something else.
“Plutonium just had a bad day in court” – re Violations of US Environmental Law in Costly Pursuit of a New Nuclear Arms Race
“Plutonium just had a bad day in court”
“In a major decision whose consequences are still being assessed, a federal judge declared that plutonium pit production — one ingredient in the U.S.
Flawed “Report” Promotes Dead-End Idea: Restart of VC Summer Nuclear Reactor Construction Debacle
A faulty idea that must be rejected: Restart of the VC Summer nuclear reactor construction boondoggle
A cursory “report” by the South Carolina Nuclear Advisory Council (NAC) –
Major Victory on Plutonium Pit Production! “Court Rules U.S. Nuclear Weapons Production Plan Violates Federal Law”
South Carolina Environmental Law Project
Gullah/Geechee Sea Island Coalition
Nuclear Watch New Mexico
Savannah River Site Watch
Tri-Valley CAREs
For Immediate Release –
SRS Citizens Advisory Board to Meet Sept. 16-17 at Univ. South Carolina, Columbia
The Department of Energy’s SRS Citizens Advisory Board (SRS CAB) is to meet on September 16 & 17 at the Hipp-Close Building, 8th Floor at the University of South Carolina in Columbia,
University of Georgia Houses Nuclear Archives of SRS Watch Director – Thanks, Academic Dawgs!
Photo: SRS Watch director Clements at Underground “bunker” at the University of Georgia – special collections
SRS Watch director Tom Clements is honored that the University of Georgia houses the archives of over a 40-year career.
SRS Watch Official Comment: DOE Backing of Sodium-Cooled Reactor a Risky & Costly Venture in Wyoming
The U.S. Department of Energy is throwing a huge amount of tax payer money at so-called “advanced reactors,” hoping something will stick. Nothing so far looks promising but one project,
Excellent article raising doubts about unneeded plutonium “pit” production at SRS (for new nuclear warheads): “Another reason to cancel the Sentinel missile: the rising cost of its nuclear warhead”
“Another reason to cancel the Sentinel missile: the rising cost of its nuclear warhead” – at Savannah River Site & Los Alamos National Lab
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, by Stephen Young (Union of Concerned Scientists),
SRS Watch to present on “Failure of the Westinghouse AP1000 Projects in the USA” at conference in Europe
This is what failure looks like. Photo by High Flyer – of canceled, in 2017 , VC Summer nuclear reactor units 2 & 3 in foreground and unit 1 (operating) by lake in background.
“Nuclear Weapons at Any Price? Congress Should Say No,” May 13, 2024 op-ed, Scientific American
Nuclear Weapons at Any Price? Congress Should Say No
Scientific American, May 13, 2024, By Sharon K. Weiner
Costs are skyrocketing to modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Instead of turning a blind eye,