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?
PLEASE SUBMIT COMMENTS BY JULY 14, 2025 ON ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW OF NEW PLUTONIUM BOMB FACTORIES
PLEASE SUBMIT COMMENTS BY JULY 14, 2025ON ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW OF NEW PLUTONIUM BOMB FACTORIES
Below are some draft comments, with a link to a Word version, to be submitted by July 14 to the US DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to help set the “scope”
Workshop on Plutonium Pit Production PEIS & New Nuclear Weapons: May 22, 2025
News Flash! Lawsuit Compels Nationwide Public Review of Plutonium Bomb Core Production by DOE’s NNSA, May 9, 2025 Federal Register
Lawsuit Compels Nationwide Public Review of Plutonium Bomb Core Production
AIKEN, S.C. — Today the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency within the Department of Energy,
Talk on SRS, the Nuclear Arms Race & Upcoming Meetings on Plutonium “Pit” Production – May 10, Columbia, SC & livestream archived
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),