Kansas City Nuclear Bomb Parts Honeywell Campus | Photo via National Security Campus & Dept. of Energy
“Kansas City: Inside America’s Nuclear Weapons Capital,
“Peace Through Atomic Strength” Я US? Or is DOE really saying…Rearmament Я US!?
“Peace Through Atomic Strength” Я US!? Or….
Or is a better descriptor of what the DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is doing with it’s rushed plutonium-pit production program, for new,
SRS Watch Submits Comments into Plutonium Pit Programmatic EIS Record, May 5, 2026
Photo: SRS Watch director Tom Clements, speaking at pit-plant news event at South Carolina state house on April 22, 2026
SRS Watch is submitting oral and written comments for the May 5,
DOE Meeting on SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant & Environmental Impacts, May 5, 2026, N. Augusta, SC – Media Advisory
Savannah River Site Watch (SRS Watch)
May 4, 2026
For Immediate Release – in PDF format: media advisory for May 5 2026 plutonium PEIS meeting
Contact: Tom Clements,
Good article: “Inside Chornobyl: 40 years after disaster, nuclear site still at risk in Russia’s war,” April 25, 2026, The Guardian
“Inside Chornobyl: 40 years after disaster, nuclear site still at risk in Russia’s war”
The Guardian, 25 April 2026
The dosimeter clipped to your chest ticks faster the moment you step off the designated path inside the Chornobyl nuclear power plant.
News Media on the Plutonium Pit Production PEIS – Finally the Issue Breaks Through & the Public Can Learn about the Threats of Plutonium “Pit” Production to Fuel New Nuclear Warheads
One-stop website with the news this week on the tour of the SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant on April 21 by public interest groups & the news briefing at the S.C.
Thoughts on Touring the $30-Billion SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant…not as Sweet as Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory, April 21, 2026
Thoughts & Observations about South Carolina’s Nuclear Weapons Factory of Doom:
Inside the $30-Billion SRS Plutonium Bomb Factory —
Tom Clements, Savannah River Site Watch (www.srswatch.org),
“Impacts of plutonium pit production at Savannah River Site unveiled” – article on Plutonium Pit Plant PEIS, April 20, 2026
“Impacts of plutonium pit production at Savannah River Site unveiled”
Savannah Morning News, April 20, 2026
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) released its draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for national production of up to 205 plutonium pits per year (ppy) on April 10.
Comment to DOE on Impacts of SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant; Update on Bomb Plant Tour at SC State Capitol on April 22
On April 10, 2026, DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) released the draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) on the impacts of plutonium “pit” – nuclear warhead bomb cores.
MOX-Style Disaster Unleashed? NNSA Gives Failing Grade to Construction of SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant by Savannah River Nuclear Solutions
DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has released the “Performance Evaluation Report” (PER) for the work in Fiscal Year 2025 of the SRS plutonium Bomb Plant contractor, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS),
SRS Watch Unleashes Comment Against DOE Effort to Avoid NEPA for “Advanced Nuclear Reactors,” March 4, 2026
Thanks to those of you who submitted comments in DOE notice on “categorical exclusions,” designed to avoid compliance with NEPA for “advanced nuclear reactors” and associated waste management.
GAO: SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant Delays Mount and Costs Soar, Per Usual DOE Methodology, Feb. 26, 2026 report
DOE’s “Nuclear Security Enterprise” – Yes, it’s a busine$$ enterprise
“Assessments of NNSA Major Projects”
Government Accountability Office – GAO-26-107777, February 26, 2026
GAO observes that the SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant operation has slipped to 2035 and is likely to slip further and that costs are soaring,
Paddle & Boogie to Stop the SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant, Augusta, GA Canal, March 28, 2026, with Music
Workers at SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant almost Sliced to Ribbons by Robot “Hydroblasting” External Wall: DOE & DNFSB Reports
Reports by the Department of Energy and the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) Reveal Near-Disastrous Worker Incident while Hydo-Blasting with a Robot through a Thick Concrete Wall at the MOX-to-Pit-Plant Project with a High Pressure Water Jet
The dodgy legacy grows of the SRS once-was-MOX plant and now Wanna-be Plutonium Bomb Plant,
Plutonium Shipment Secrecy – Ripe for Comments in the Plutonium-Pit-Production Draft Programmatic EIS in May 2026
Gearing up for public comments on the plutonium-pit-production draft Programmatic EIS, likely coming in May 2026:
Every Day, Nukes Are Riding Right Past People Like You
The United States government ships its nuclear materials,
SRS Watch on Nuclear Hotseat Podcast, November 11, 2025
Nuclear Hotseat, 7428 Valaho Drive, Los Angeles, CA 91042
podcast: https://www.nuclearhotseat.com/podcast/savannah-river-site-nuclear-weapons/
SC’s Savannah River Site & the Dept of Energy’s Nuclear Weapons Pit Push –
Tom Clements,
“LANL Prioritizes Plutonium “Pit” Bomb Core Production Over Safety” – Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Nov. 6, 2025
“LANL Prioritizes Plutonium “Pit” Bomb Core Production Over Safety”
News release from Nuclear Watch New Mexico, November 6, 2025: https://nukewatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/LANL-Prioritizes-Plutonium-Pit-Bomb-Core-Production-Over-Safety.pdf
Santa Fe,
“Unleashing Plutonium Proliferation” Report Released by SRS Watch – on DOE’s Dangerous Effort to Introduce Weapons Plutonium into the Civilian Fuel Cycle, October 31, 2025
Savannah River Site Watch news, October 21, 2025:
Report on Plutonium-Use Plans by Department of Energy and Oklo Inc Pose Unacceptable Nuclear Proliferation Risks; Program to Give Away 19.7 Tons of DOE Plutonium Must be Halted
SRS Watch Report Unleashing Plutonium Proliferation in the U.S.
“Brookfield Assets picked to take over failed VC Summer nuclear project” – article, Oct. 25, 2025
Brookfield Assets picked to take over failed VC Summer nuclear project
By Lucy Valeski and Sammy Fretwell – October 25, 2025. The State, Columbia, SC
In the same office where a massive nuclear project was abandoned eight years ago,
“Savannah River plutonium pit site embarks on hazardous waste plan” – article, Oct. 28, 2025
Savannah River plutonium pit site embarks on hazardous waste plan –
Unanswered questions and comments were directed towards a fish bowl, mostly empty
Savannah (Georgia) Morning News,
Good Article on SRS Pit Plant & Other Programs at SRS – Savannah newspaper, Oct. 9, 2025
“U.S. Dept. of Energy steps up plutonium pit manufacturing at Savannah River Site”
“The site is part of the nation’s effort of “re-establishing capabilities retired after the Cold War,”
Sign up for Plutonium Pit PEIS Updates, with UCS
“Pledge to Be a Voice for Peace and Science”
– from the Union of Concerned Scientist on the plutonium pit Programmatic EIS (that we won via federal lawsuit) –
DOE Moves toward Key Waste-Generation Permit for Proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant
Why are they doing this now and not until after the court-mandated Programmatic EIS has been finished? A draft of that document, on all impacts of plutonium pit production at all DOE sites,
Bad Idea: 20 Metric Tons of U.S. Plutonium Stockpiled for Fuel for Imaginary, Unlicensed Nuclear Reactors
A bad idea (or is it a scam?!): “White House could tap plutonium reserves for nuclear fuel” – ExchangeMonitor article, August 29, 2025
A repeat of the plutonium fuel (MOX) boondoggle at SRS…?
New Report by SRS Watch: Restart of Failed Nuclear Reactor Project in S.C. Faces Unreviewed Challenges, August 20, 2025
V.C. Summer Nuclear Reactor Restart Idea Faces Daunting Challenges, According to New Report by Nuclear Policy Expert who Led Public-Interest Intervention before the S.C. Public Service Commission
Rhetoric of Politicians Blindly Touting Project Restart,
Radioactive Wasps Still Buzzing at SRS: FOIA Filed as to Radiation Origin
The report of radioactive wasps at the Savannah River Site is a story that still has wings. Buzz! Buzz!
SRS Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for more information about the source of the contamination and SRS is now processing the request: SRO-2025-03439-F Clements first letter wasps August 11 2025
The State newspaper in Columbia,
The Plutonium Pit Problem” video shown at Nobel Peace Conference, August 6, Oslo
From Nuclear Watch New Mexico on our video linked below: “Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Tri-Valley CAREs, SRS Watch and the South Carolina Environmental Law Project were asked to provide a video to the Nobel Peace Conference –
Hiroshima vigil, 80th anniversary of the bombing, August 6, 2025, Columbia, SC, 6:30 p.m.
Hiroshima vigil on 80th anniversary of the bombing, August 6, 2025, Columbia, SC, 6:30 p.m.
SRS Watch will be there
It’s the Buzz! Radioactive Wasps at SRS Point to Plutonium Pits and High-level Rad Waste
The radioactive wasps are harbingers of bigger problems at SRS: massive amounts of high-level nuclear waste, site contamination, a shift to plutonium pit production (requiring shipment of and the dangerous processing of plutonium) and a DOE facility that just can’t be honest with the public.
Caution: Radioactive Wasps at SRS! The New “Killer Wasp?!”
Head’s up! A nest of radioactive wasps was recently discovered in one of the high-level waste tank areas at SRS!
Does this indicate a new type of killer wasp is on the loose?