Thanks to Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Hanford Challenge, SRS Watch and other public interest groups for this! Our letter to DOE requesting an extension of the comment period is available on request: srswatch@gmail.com.
In Response to SRS Watch and Other Groups, Comment Period Extended on SRS Waste Dumping Plan
In response to a request by SRS Watch and other public interest groups, the comment period for a plan to dump 10,000 gallons of SRS high-level waste as low-level waste has been extended.
SRS Glovebox Panel Cracked while Handling Plutonium Can: Occurrence Report on Nov. 13, 2019 event with “no contamination detected”
Glovebox Handling Surplus Plutonium Can Cracked During Surveillance
Occurrence Report Number: EM-SR–SRNS-KAREA-2019-0002 –
Cracked KIS Glovebox Panel (U)
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Cracked KIS Glovebox Panel (U)
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DOE IG Report Exposes Some of Failed MOX Project Mismanagement; More Investigations Needed
Tip of the MOX debacle mismanagement: “Subcontract Administration at the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility”
– by DOE Inspector General, released December 17, 2019
Report linked on IG website: https://www.energy.gov/ig/downloads/audit-report-doe-oig-20-16
We continue to ask: where are needed investigations into waste,
Letter in Aiken Newspaper: Proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at SRS is “Ill-Advised and Unnecessary”
“Letter: Plutonium pits aren’t needed”
Aiken (South Carolina) Standard, December 16, 2019
“According to a Dec. 11 story in the Aiken Standard, the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) authorizes the production of 50 plutonium pits per year at the Savannah River Site.
Barnwell, SC nuclear waste dump & SC DHEC thumb nose at SC Supreme Court
Based on observation by members of SRS Watch on December 5, 29019, it looks like no covers have been put over the waste disposal trenches at the Barnwell low-level nuclear waste dump,
Old Barnwell Reprocessing Plant Stands as Tribute to Failed Idea
Photo by SRS Watch, December 5, 2019: The looming hulk of the long-shuttered Allied-General Nuclear Services (AGNS) reprocessing plant near Barnwell, South Carolina (and adjacent to the DOE’s Savannah River Site).
FOIA Request on Repurposing of the MOX Plant to a Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP): Documents to SRS Watch by December 5, 2019?
Per requirements of the Freedom of Information Act, will DOE provide documents to SRS Watch by December 5, 2019 on the conversion of MOX plant to a Plutonium Bomb Plant?
Japan’s Plutonium Stockpile in the UK is a Costly, Worthless Burden – What to do with it?
What to do with Japan’s plutonium stockpile at the Sellafield nuclear site in the UK? It has a huge negative value.
“What should be done with Japan’s plutonium now stored in the UK?
DOE Pit Presentation Underscores No Justification for SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant, by Los Alamos, Nov. 14, 2019
DOE propaganda presentation on pits is woefully inadequate and fails to make the case for expanded pit production. Is this all they can come up with to sell new plutonium pit production for a new and unneeded nuclear warhead (“W87-1-like”)?!
Eight New Cracks in Aging High-Level Radioactive Waste Tanks Found, SRS Contractor Says Structural Integrity OK; Groundwater Plumes Monitored
“Annual Radioactive Waste Tank Inspection Program – 2018,” June 2019
“Rainwater continues periodically to be observed migrating into the annuli of some tanks. Evidence of this infiltration was primarily noted by observation of surface stains,
Exemption Sought to Ship Plutonium-238 Tanks from SRS to WIPP
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued an exemption to Nuclear Waste Partnerships. LLC to ship 2 boxes of transuranic waste from SRS to the DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico.
Disaster at Rocky Flats Plutonium Pit Site Holds Lessons for Proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant
FBI agent who raided Rocky Flats Plant to speak
Albuquerque (New Mexico) Journal, November 17, 2019
SANTA FE, N.M. — Jon Lipsky is a retired federal agent with a big notch in his gun – he shut down a plant that made plutonium parts for the nation’s nuclear weapons.
NNSA Must Comply with a Host of Things before Proceeding Further on SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP)
Among other things, DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNA) must halt proceeding on plans for the unauthorized and unfunded SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PMP) until the following (and other) things are complied with.
Uh oh…Discovery of Contamination in SRS Radiological Protection Department Office
“Occurrence Report” for radioactive contamination in a “clean area” of the SRS high-level waste vitrification plant (Defense Waste Process Facility)
On October 22, 2019,
Thanks to the League of Women Voters of SC for Opposing the Proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP)
“League of Women Voters S.C. opposes pit production at Savannah River Site”
“The League of Women Voters of South Carolina opposes the production of nuclear weapon cores,
Presentations by Speakers at Nov. 12 Events on SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant & Rocky Flats Plutonium Pit-Production Disaster
Focus of Presentations: Why the proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant at SRS is Dangerous and unnecessary & and Lessons Learned from the DOE’s Rocky Flats Disaster with Plutonium Pit Production in Colorado
Rocky Flats Disaster: Red Light for SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant,
Media Coverage of Nov. 12 Events on Unneeded “Plutonium Bomb Plant” at SRS & Lessons from the Rocky Flats Plutonium Disaster
Here are links to print articles, TV coverage and livestream of the Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) news conference and forum that were held on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 –
NNSA’s Violation of FOIA on Conversion of MOX Plant to Plutonium Bomb Plant is Challenged
Lawyer for SRS Watch demands response from DOE to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents on “repurposing” the shuttered plutonium fuel (MOX) plant into a Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP).
Plutonium Bomb Plant Forum on Nov. 12: Article in Aiken, SC Paper, Nov 11, 2019
“Watchdogs to warn of SRS pit production risks during public forum”
Aiken, SC paper, Nov. 11, 2019
SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) – Two Events on Tues., Nov. 12 by SRS Watch, in Aiken, SC, Augusta, GA
Proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) Focus of Public Two Events on Novembers 12, 2019 in Augusta, Georgia & Aiken, South Carolina
News Conference &
“ROCKY FLATS DISASTER: RED LIGHT for SRS PLUTONIUM BOMB PLANT” – Free Event on Nov. 12 in Aiken, SC
Public Forum on SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) coming on November 12 in Aiken, South Carolina – Please attend
The ad on the event in Aiken,
Public Forum on SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant & Lessons Learned from the Rocky Flats Plutonium Disaster, Nov. 12, Aiken, SC
SRS Watch news on NNSA’s Proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant at Savannah River Site and Lessons Learned from the Rocky Flats Plutonium Disaster – Forum in Aiken, SC on November 12,
Questions Raised by GAO about Plutonium Downblending at SRS
Surplus Plutonium Disposition: NNSA’s Long-Term Plutonium Oxide Production Plans Are Uncertain
GAO-20-166: Published: Oct 23, 2019. Publicly Released: Oct 23, 2019.
The National Nuclear Security Administration manages 57.2 metric tons of surplus plutonium.
Public Interest Groups Push Back Against DOE’s New Nuclear Bomb Plant at Y-12 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
“Citizen Groups File Motion to Enforce Court Order Vacating NNSA Decision on Uranium Processing Facility Construction”
If DOE/NNSA continues to move toward the unauthorized Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at SRS without following the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA),
Problems Keep Coming at Westinghouse Uranium Nuclear Fuel Plant in Columbia, SC – Big Accident Lurking?
SRS Watch director in “Nuclear workers hospitalized; Columbia plant runs afoul of safety rules – again”
The State, Columbia, South Carolina, October 23, 2019- on line &
Plutonium Disaster at DOE’s Rocky Flats: Red Alert for NO Plutonium Bomb Plant at SRS
Rocky Flats Disaster: Red Light for SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant
Public Forum on Tuesday, November 12, 7: 00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. at the Aiken,
DOE Reports Nationwide Amounts of DOE and Commercial Spent Fuel Inventories – Problem Getting Worse as No Long-term Disposition Plan Exists
Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste Inventory Report, prepared for DOE, September 2019
83,500 MT of commercial spent fuel & 2300 MT of DOE spent fuel
“This report provides information on the inventory of commercial spent fuel (SNF) and high-level
radioactive waste (HLW) in the United States,
DOE Oversight Board Meets on Safety of Tritium Facilities (for Nuclear Weapons) at SRS – DNFSB to Discuss NNSA’s Rejection of Board Recommendation
“The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board will hold a public meeting to provide an opportunity for the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration to brief the Board on their basis for rejecting Recommendation 2019-2 and the actions completed,
Secretary of Energy Perry to Bail Out of Trump’s Deepening Muck – But a Bit Too Late to Avoid the Splatter?
“Perry Tells Trump He Will Resign as Energy Secretary –
Rick Perry, the former governor of Texas who has become enmeshed in the Ukraine scandal, said he would resign as secretary of energy.”