SRS Watch has inquired of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission about the death of an employee at the BWXT highly enriched uranium (HEU) facility in Lynchburg, VA.
NATIONAL NETWORK OF WATCHDOG GROUPS OPPOSES FUNDING FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS TEST PREPARATION: CALLS PROPOSAL “DANGEROUSLY DESTABILIZING”
NATIONAL NETWORK OF WATCHDOG GROUPS OPPOSES FUNDING FOR NUCLEAR WEAPONS TEST PREPARATION:
CALLS PROPOSAL “DANGEROUSLY DESTABILIZING” AND “ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE.”
Today, three-dozen nuclear watchdog organizations,
Groups Petition DOE to Stop Stalling on Pit Production Legal Requirements; Stage Set for Environmental Lawsuit
WATCHDOG GROUPS FILE LEGAL PETITION WITH ENERGY DEPT: Allege Agency is Slow Walking “Record of Decision” Re: Plutonium Bomb Core Production to Prevent Judicial Review; Stage Set for Litigation on Expanded Production
June 24,
House Armed Services Subcommittee Fails to Affirm $R$ Plutonium Bomb Plant in Mark-Up of Defense Authorization
SRS nuclear war boosters – contractors & NNSA deep staters – sweating bullets over lack of $R$ Plutonium Bomb Plant being affirmed by key House subcommittee
The US House Subcommittee on Strategic Forces (of the Armed Services Committee) today sent a strong signal that the $R$ Plutonium Bomb Plant has weak support.
“Failed [MOX] Plutonium Project’s Final Chapter Is Fire Sale for Parts”
“Failed [MOX] Plutonium Project’s Final Chapter Is Fire Sale for Parts”
By Ari Natter, Bloomberg, June 18, 2020
U.S. conversion factory’s equipment is on the auction block
After $8 billion spent,
Secretive Sale of Surplus MOX Equipment by NNSA Perpetuates Cover-Up of Bungled MOX Project
Secretive Sale of Surplus MOX Equipment by NNSA Perpetuates Cover-Up of Bungled MOX Project, Exposes Lack of Accountability to Taxpayers for Money Wasted on Construction and Equipment
MOX Project Wasted Vast Sums of Money on Stockpiling Huge Amounts of Equipment that Project Managers Knew would be Obsolete when the Project Began Operation – Investigations Needed
Columbia,
Noted expert: “Why a decision on a second US plutonium-pit-production factory should be delayed” – Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, June 12, 2020
Noted nuclear non-proliferation expert Dr. Frank von Hippel speaks up against the proposed, unjustified SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant:
“Why a decision on a second US plutonium-pit-production factory should be delayed”
Storage of Highly Enriched Uranium at Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Facility in TN is “Unsafe” – Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB)
Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (OREP) raises concern about safety of storage of highly enriched uranium (HEU) – bomb-grade uranium – at DOE’s Y-12 nuclear weapons facility in Oak Ridge,
Are Tritium Operations at SRS Safe? Tritium Gas, Processed at SRS, is Used in Nuclear Weapons to Boost the Blast
BOOM!!! Tritium in Nuclear Warheads = Boosted Nuclear Explosive Force; SRS Watch Requests Report
This National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) notice in the June 11, 2020 Federal Register underscores that the postponed meeting by the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) on SRS tritium operations needs to be held ASAP.
Former SCE&G Nuclear Official Committed Fraud in Failed Reactor Construction Project in South Carolina; Lawyers in Nuclear Ripoff Under Investigation
Stephen Bryne, former official with South Carolina Electric & Gas (SCE&G – taken over by Dominion Energy – admits fraud in the failed construction of two new nuclear reactors at the VC Summer site in South Carolina.
Public, Organizations Slam DOE’s Draft EIS on Proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP); Challenge Dangerous Plans for Full-Scale Nuclear War
Numerous Comments Submitted on NNSA’s Draft EIS on the SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant; Question Need for Expanding Plutonium “Pit” Production to SRS, Call for Programmatic EIS to Review Pit Need
In Bizarre and Dangerous Twist,
“Japan should end its nonsensical effort to recycle nuclear fuel”
One day Japan’s costly, dangerous and failed program to reprocess highly radioactive spent fuel and stockpile plutonium will end.
Environmental Review of Plutonium “Pit” Production at Los Alamos for Nuclear Weapons is Inadequate, Must be Revised
SRS Watch news release, May 12, 2020: Inadequate Los Alamos Lab Environmental Analysis of Plutonium “Pit” Production for 4000 New and Refurbished Nuclear Warheads Must be Amended by DOE to Cover Key Issues Overlooked
Options to “Reuse” Pits and Method to Purify Plutonium are Key Matters Totally Lacking from Draft Supplement Analysis,
NAS Panel Calls for Programmatic EIS on Surplus Plutonium Disposition
Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) on surplus plutonium disposition? That’s the call in the new report (April 30) of the National Academies of Sciences on disposal of 48 metric tons of plutonium,
DOE Extends Comment Period on Draft EIS on SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP), in Response to Requests by SRS Watch and Others
DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration Extends by 15 Days Comment Period on Draft EIS on Proposed Savannah River Site Plutonium Bomb Plant, Period Extended from May 18 to About June 2
Columbia,
Important New Book: “Plutonium: How Nuclear Power’s Dream Fuel Became a Nightmare” – Why Spent Fuel Reprocessing and Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Use must be Terminated
“Plutonium: How Nuclear Power’s Dream Fuel Became a Nightmare”
by friends and colleagues of SRS Watch – by Frank von Hippel (Author), Masafumi Takubo (Author), Jungmin Kang (Author)
This book provides a readable and thought-provoking analysis of the issues surrounding nuclear fuel reprocessing and fast-neutron reactors,
Misguided Scheme to Dump German Spent Fuel at SRS Slipping Away from Profiteers?
“Nuclear waste could remain in Jülich for even longer”
“Der Atommüll könnte noch länger in Jülich bleiben”
WDR German radio,
Spent Nuclear Fuel from Germany to SRS? Dumping-for-Profit Scheme Drags On & On & Should be Terminated
FOIA Documents Confirm Profiteers Still Pursuing Scheme to Dump Highly Radioactive German Spent Fuel (Graphite “Pebbles”) at SRS – Should be Terminated
SRS and the German entity Jülicher Entsorgungsgesellschaft für Nuklearanlagen (JEN) are still working on the scheme to import German highly radioactive graphite spent fuel from the Jülich,
“Nuclear Cleanup Sites Can Endure Prolonged Use of Skeleton Crews, Sources Say” – in Response to COVID-19
SRS Watch in “Nuclear Cleanup Sites Can Endure Prolonged Use of Skeleton Crews, Sources Say”
Federal and industry sources said this week they don’t foresee major environmental or public safety concerns emerging if the current level of reduced staffing at Energy Department nuclear cleanup sites due to COVID-19 lingers for months.
Nuclear Bomb Plant Under Construction at Y-12 (Oak Ridge, TN) Subject to Earthquake Risks
“New earthquake report shows risks “ten times as high”
This is troubling – on a new analysis on the nuclear bomb plant under construction by NNSA at Y-12 in Oak Ridge,
Inadequate Environmental Study on Proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) Draws Public Interest Criticism
“DOE Ignores COVID-19 Threat, Diverts Resources to Planning for Nuclear War by Releasing Draft Environmental Study on SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP)”
Today,
Groups Request Extension of Los Alamos Plutonium Pit Comment Period
Letter to DOE, April 1, 2020: Request for two-month extension of the April 24, 2020 comment deadline for the draft Supplement Analysis to the 2008 Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for continued operations of Los Alamos National Laboratory (DOEIEIS-0380- SA-06) in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
SRS: Operating in Inky Blackness of Unjustified Secrecy – Scared of the Public Knowing What’s Up?
SRS has slapped a lid of secrecy on “minimum mission-critical activities” that are occurring at the site – no explanation given for that terminology or what it covers. Shameful and potentially dangerous!
FOIA Filed for “Mission-Critical Activities” at SRS in Face of COVID-19 Threat
Why is Savannah River site management not telling the public what’s going on at SRS is response to the threat of the coronavirus?
As SRS management has failed to release a list of “mission-critical activities”
“Arms Control and Nonproliferation: A Catalog of Treaties and Agreements”
“Arms Control and Nonproliferation: A Catalog of Treaties and Agreements”
Congressional Research Service (CRS), updated March 26, 2020
report linked here: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RL33865.pdf
When will Congress allow the CRS to post reports so the public can see them in a timely manner?
Stunning DOE admission to trigger more extensive environmental review: “New study says LANL nuclear pit production could go higher”
DOE admits Los Alamos National Lab to look at production of 80 plutonium pits/year – to fuel the new nuclear arms race – which underscores the requirement for preparation of a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement ( PEIS) on the matter,
Dangerous Distraction: DOE Retreats from Virus Fight, Focuses on Nuclear War and $R$ Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP)
SRS Watch news, March 27, 202o: “While the Nation Rallies to Confront Virus, Savannah River Site Takes Eye Off the Threat and Focuses on Planning for New Nuclear Arms Race –
SRS Shows No Leadership, Lags Behind Public in Taking Action Against the Virus – Why?
This is Very Worrying: SRS Action Against the Virus Comes Late, After Public Already Acting
The DOE’s Savannah River Site (SRS) on the afternoon of Monday,
Groups Request DOE Publish “Notice” of Release of Plutonium Bomb Document in Federal Register
“Request to Publish Notice of Draft Supplement Analysis in the Federal Register, DOE/EIS-0380-SA-06: Draft Supplement Analysis”
Public interest groups working for US DOE to fully comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in its unjustified plans to produce more plutonium “pits”
Nuclear Industry Aims to Play Virus Relief into Bailout – NEI Letter of March 19, 2020
Well, some things in life are predictable. The US nuclear industry is seeking relief that goes far beyond immediate COVID-19 impacts.
In addition to seeking help for the floundering Votgle reactor construction project in Georgia,