The U.S. Department of Energy has quietly told friends that it’s program to “dispose of” 40 metric tons of surplus weapons plutonium has been delayed 10 years. Search as we might we can find no public information about this.
“U.S. Strategic Posture Commission Ratchets Up Nuclear Arms Race”
From Nuclear Watch New Mexico, a fellow organization with SRS Watch in the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA):
U.S. Strategic Posture Commission Ratchets Up
Nuclear Arms Race
Today,
Was legal fee in lawsuit about plutonium storage at SRS lawful?
Dispute over $75M in legal fees SC attorney general paid to law firms now in judge’s hands
A decision is expected soon on whether to keep alive a lawsuit that questions the right of South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson to award $75 million in fees to private attorneys who helped secure $600 million for the state in a dispute involving the Savannah River Site.
“South Carolina nuclear plant gets yellow warning over another cracked emergency fuel pipe”
South Carolina nuclear plant gets yellow warning over another cracked emergency fuel pipe
Small cracks have been found a half-dozen times in the past 20 years.
Nuclear experts raise new concerns about industry-led policy proposals to separate plutonium in Canada
Nuclear experts raise new concerns about industry-led policy proposals to separate plutonium in Canada
(Sept. 25 2023) Twelve internationally recognized nuclear experts have sent an open letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,
Safety Board Underscores Serious Design Concerns with the Proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant
“Are They Already Cutting Corners on Worker Protection at DOE’s New Plutonium Processing Plant?”
CounterPunch, September 11, 2023
As of this past Labor Day,
SRS Watch Engages Public on DOE’s Plans for the SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant, to Manufacture Plutonium “Pits” for New Nuclear Warheads Essential to Plans for Full-Scale Nuclear War
Savannah River Site Watch reached out to attendees at a clean energy festival (https://getoffthegridfest.com/) in Spartanburg, South Carolina on August 19, 2023, to enlist opposition to plans by the Department of Energy &
Activists Against Nuclear War Plans by DOE Appear in Court – Thanks to these Patriots for their Important Work!
The U.S. Department of Energy is central to U.S. plans for full-scale nuclear war. But some patriots are confronting those plans as they pose a threat to all of us .
Nuclear Weapons & Planning for Full-Scale Nuclear War : Zoom Event of August 16, 2023 Archived: “Oppenheimer’s Legacy: South Carolina and SRS at the Center of the New Nuclear Arms Race
Oppenheimer’s Legacy: South Carolina and SRS at the Center of the New Nuclear Arms Race
In case you missed the August 16,
Say What?! DNFSB Reports Leaking, Ignored Uranium Drum in DOE’s Aging H-Canyon Reprocessing Plant at SRS
An often-ignored but important agency – the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) – which conducts oversight of DOE activities reveals that a leaking radioactive drum “believed” to be uranium waste was “discovered”
Recommendation for Spent Fuel Reprocessing Study at SRS Reflects Profound Lack of Understanding, Fails to Move Forward
A draft recommendation before the Savannah River Site Citizens Advisory Board (SRS CAB) to explore reprocessing of commercial spent fuel at SRS is misguided, poorly written and reveals profound ignorance of SRS abilities and the problems associated with reprocessing.
Oppenheimer Legacy: South Carolina, the Center of the New Nuclear Arms Race – Wednesday, August 16, 2023, 7-8:30 p.m. ET, Presentations & Discussion on Zoom
Photo in post: Don’t Dump Rocky Flats Plutonium Pit Production on South Carolina! 1992 at gates of Rocky Flats pit-production facility, nbear Boulder, Colorado, with current SRS Watch director (standing under the center of the billboard,
Federal Judge Sets New Schedule in Or Lawsuit Demanding Full Environmental Review of Plutonium “Pit” Production for New Nuclear Weapons
The federal judge in Columbia, South Carolina has issued a new schedule for the public interest lawsuit asking for preparation of a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) by DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) concerning the plan to produce plutonium pits –
DOE Grants SRS Watch Appeal of FOIA on German Spent Fuel Import – SRS Search “Inadequate”
The DOE’s Office of Hearings and Appeals has decided in favor of SRS Watch and granted our appeal of an inadequate search for documents relevant to our FOIA request related to import and dumping of Ger man spent fuel at SRS.
Barbies Say “No to Nuclear War” and SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant at Showings in Columbia, South Carolina
At showings of the films “Barbie” and “Oppenheimer” at The Nickelodeon Theater in Columbia, South Carolina, in July 2023, pink-clad Barbies have been leafletting and engaging film attendees concerning the renewed threat of nuclear war,
Hiroshima Nuclear Bombing Commemoration, August 6, 2023, in Columbia, South Carolina & Learn about the Proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant, Key to the New Nuclear Arms Race
Please attend this event in Columbia, South Carolina on August 6, 2023, to commemorate the 78th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima (uranium bomb) and Nagasaki (plutonium bomb).
Sierra Club Call to Action to Oppose Plutonium “Pit” Production at SRS — Clean-up not build-up!
South Carolina Chapter of the Sierra Club: Action alert against plutonium pit production for new nuclear warheads, July 2023:
Call to Action to Oppose Plutonium “Pit” Production —
“Safety Lapses at Los Alamos National Laboratory” – Sadly, such Reporting is Dead when it comes to SRS
While investigative journalism is dead concerning SRS – to the detriment of our democracy – good that it still lives in New Mexico:
“Safety lapses at Los Alamos National Laboratory –
SRS Watch Files Appeal to Inadequate SRS Response to FOIA Request for Documents on the Now-Terminated Scheme to Dump Highly Radioactive German Spent Fuel at SRS
An email provided to SRS Watch in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request reveals that the German entity notified SRS in October 2022 that the scheme to dump German spent fuel –
Rocky Flats Horror Show: Film about Plutonium Pit Production Disaster in Process – The Plutonium-Contaminated, Closed Rocky Flats Pit-Production Site in Colorado is a Stark Reminder of the Threats of Pit Production at SRS and the Risks of a New Nuclear Arms Race
Plutonium pit production – for the core of nuclear weapons – was an environmental and health disaster at the Rocky Flats plant near Denver, Colorado. Officially closed in 1992,
Challenges to Plutonium “Pit” Fabrication and New ICBMs to Use Pits, Pressure to Return to Nuclear Testing
Do challenges in plutonium pit fabrication for a new ICBM pose the risk of a return to nuclear weapons testing in Nevada?
“As America’s Nuclear Arsenal Upgrades, Usual Testing is Scrapped”
State Department Promises to Drag its Feet in Providing Information on Nuclear Waste from Spain to the U.S. – Re 1966 Palomares Nuclear Weapons Accident that Scattered Plutonium near Palomares, Spain, with Waste Dumped at SRS
U,S. State Department won’t respond until November 2025 to an information request about more nuclear waste that could come to SRS from a nuclear weapons accident in Spain in 1996!
Difficulties of finding plutonium pit workers in New Mexico; but plutonium pit staffing problems worse at SRS has no nuclear-bomb manufacturing experience & no experience since 1980s in processing molten plutonium
This article about new nuclear bomb production at the Los Alamos National Lab in New Mexico is of importance because the same thing is happening at SRS. The “defense”
In Response to NNSA’s Refusal to Release Information on Plutonium Pit Aging, SRS Watch Files FOIA Requests
DOE is using “pit aging” as a justification to fabricate new pits for new nuclear weapons. We challenge them to back up their claim with scientific data!
SRS Watch Updates Long String of Public Interest Victories Over Misguided SRS projects
Major Savannah River Site (SRS) Public Interest Victories – For a Cleaner, Safer Site
Stopped operation of the Allied General Nuclear Services (AGNS) reprocessing plant,
SRS Watch Requests Nonproliferation Review of Production of HALEU (Uranium Enriched to 20% U-235)
SRS Watch, in response to a DOE notice that an Environmental Impact Statement would be prepared on production and availability of High Assay Low Enriched Uranium (HALEU), has requested that a Nonproliferation Impact Assessment (NPIA) be prepared related to the HALEU program.
DOE Breaks 6 Years of Unjustified Silence, Finally Complies with Environmental Commitment Concerning Now-Terminated German Spent Fuel Import Scheme
Embarrassed DOE Forced to Finally Publicly Admit Failure in Scheme to Dump German High-Level Nuclear Waste on SRS, But SRS Watch Learned Much Earlier that the Project was Dead and Informed the Public Months Ago,
DOE’s Spotty Response to FOIA Requests Harms Openness and Transparency: Is DOE Secretary Granholm Paying Attention???
Here are some Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests by SRS Watch – which indicate how slow DOE processes FOIA (counter to DOE regulations). Such slow response to FOIA request by public interests groups like SRS Watch undermines public confidence and hurts transparency and openness.
DOE Belatedly Admits it Stiffed Congress on Plan for Versatile Test Reactor (VTR), More Confirmation VTR is Dead
DOE finally confirms that the congressionally required public-private funding plan for the plutonium-fueled Versatile Test Reactor (VTR) doesn’t exist.
Why did it take over two years to make this embarrassing admission?
“Dealing with a debacle: A better plan for US plutonium pit production” at SRS & Los Alamos National Lab
If you are following the issue of production of plutonium “pits” for new nuclear weapons, you will want to check out this April 27, 2023 article in the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists:
Dealing with a debacle: A better plan for US plutonium pit production
By Curtis T.