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It’s still looking like SRS thinks the COVID-19 virus situation is mostly a hoax. WHEN will SRS start acting responsibly and declare certain jobs “essential,” like high-level waste management and security of plutonium,

The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety board (DNFSB), mandated to oversight of certain DOE activities,  confirms SRS “denied or delayed access to information, facilities, or personnel meetings that were necessary for the Board to perform its mission.”

What’s the status of start up of a key SRS facility to process liquid high-level waste? DOE has said that the Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) would start in March 2020 but then said April and then that it would be in Fiscal Year 2020.

“SRS experienced the three radiological events recently.”

DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY BOARD
February 21, 2020 report
SUBJECT: Savannah River Site Activity Report for Week

Radiological Protection: SRS experienced the three radiological events recently.

As the coronavirus spreads in the US and South Carolina – location of the Savannah River Site – what is the US Department of Energy doing concerning  the 11,000 employees at SRS? 

The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) March 19 meeting on SRS was cancelled and has now been rescheduled for June 1, 2020, but we wonder if that will happen.

“Non-Proliferation Treaty turns 50 as US funds new nukes” — by Jay Coghlan of Nuclear Watch New Mexico, a sister organization of SRS Watch in the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA),

March 10 Update: The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) has notified SRS Watch that due to the coronavirus “and other issues” that the March 19 “Public Hearing on the Status of the Savannah River Site”

“The White House gave this nuclear agency a giant funding increase. Can it spend it all?”

Uh, no…..

Article in Defense News, March 3,

Government Accountability Office (GAO), March 3, 2020: “NNSA’s Modernization Efforts Would Benefit from a Portfolio Management Approach”

“The Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is conducting four programs to modernize nuclear weapons,

The federal court decision is the final death blow of the MOX debacle but that zombie project has morphed into a contractor money machine (for the $R$ Plutonium Bomb Plant –

“Feinstein, Markey Request GAO Study on Affordability of Nuclear Weapons”
Feb 27 2020

            Washington – Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass) today requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) examine if nuclear modernization activities undertaken by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) are sustainable and affordable investments in our national security.

           

“The all clear has been given regarding the emergency event.”

—–UPDATE 12:57 p.m.—–
The all clear has been given regarding the emergency event.
The emergency event was declared due to a security event when a vehicle attempted to enter a secure area of the site for routine work activated explosive detection devices.

SRS Watch in “Proposed budget would almost triple plutonium spending”

Santa Fe New Mexican, February 24, 2020

Tom Clements, executive director of the nonprofit Savannah River Site Watch,

The most recent case  brought against MOX Services, contractor in charge of the failed plutonium fuel (MOX) project at SRS, moves slowly though the federal court system.

SRS Watch on the crazy, costly, unjustified  proposal for a Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at SRS:

“Why Does Trump Want to Spend Billions on New Nukes?

US Nuclear Regulatory Commission moving to advocate for spent fuel reprocessing in the US?! If so this is total madness designed simply to funnel taxpayer money to any company, like Orano,