The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has revealed that it has spent all of our money. Busted flat. Nothing left. Nada. Zilch. Nichts.
Well,
NRC Seeks to Dodge Environmental Law in its Review of “Centrus High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium Demonstration Project,” Groups Request Programmatic EIS
“HALEU IN PORTSMOUTH, Ohio? Nuclear weapons and other grave risks”
Alert from Beyond Nuclear: “The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is poised to forego a more comprehensive National Environmental Policy Act review of American Centrifuge Plant/Centrus’s scheme to generate High Assay Low Enriched Uranium in Portsmouth,
New “Nuclear Posture Review” (NPR) to Assess Need for New Nuclear Warheads and Plutonium Pit Plan, including Proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant
In an interview with Nikkei Asia, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken has confirmed that a new Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) is getting underway., as anticipated. The NPR will review new nuclear warheads for which new plutonium pits will be made –
Articles: Plutonium pit production at proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant under review? Plutonium “disposition” at SRS via H-Canyon reprocessing plant into waste tanks
SRS Watch in two plutonium articles of interest, both posted in the Aiken Standard on March 17, 2021:
“Ongoing ‘review’ forces Pentagon official to pull out of SC pit production briefing”
Proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant Faces More Challenges – Appears to be Under Review
Plutonium pit project – initially to produce pits for new warheads (first W87-1, then W93) – under formal review? The unneeded, unjustified the SRS Plutonium Bomb plant is coming under increasing scrutiny.
Follow the money: “INSIDE THE ICBM LOBBY: SPECIAL INTERESTS OR THE NATIONAL INTERESTS”
Read why the proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant is not needed to make new plutonium pits for the new ICBM (with W87-1 warhead), while Northrop Grumman gets rich: “INSIDE THE ICBM LOBBY: SPECIAL INTERESTS OR THE NATIONAL INTERESTS”
SRS Watch to NRC: Release Secret Draft EA on High-Assay LEU Production at Piketon, for Public Comment
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is quietly moving toward licensing a Centrus facility in Piketon, Ohio to produce “high-assay low- enriched uranium” (HALEU). Why the secrecy?
HALEU is 5% to 20% enriched in uranium-235,
“U.S. continues push to restart plutonium pit production” at SRS and Los Alamos, for Preparation for All-Out Nuclear War and not Deterrence
“U.S. continues push to restart plutonium pit production”
Physics Today, March 5, 2021
“The government is preparing two facilities to fabricate the cores of nuclear weapons despite concerns over the safety and necessity of the endeavor.”
34 Metric Tons of Plutonium – Yes, 34! – Could be Headed to SRS for Fabrication in K-Area into Fuel for Unjustified Reactor – But Trouble Awaits the Project
“New reactor fuel mission floated for SRS, DOE documents show”
Aiken (South Carolina) Standard, March 5, 2021, article linked here:
Comments on draft EIS on the VTR by Tom Clements,
U.S. Doom Machine Preparing for Full-Scale Nuclear War (hey, it’s very profitable!): “Nuclear Notebook: United States nuclear weapons, 2021”
All you’ll need to know about U.S. nuclear weapons – a force built to fight an all-out nuclear war, not just for deterrence, funneling massive amounts of our money into the pockets of war profiteers.
UK-Flagged Pacific Grebe Arrives Back in England after Dropping Spent Research Reactor Fuel in Savannah, GA, which was taken to USGS Reactor in Denver
Irradiated research reactor fuel from Finland’s FiR reactor was recently shipped into the U.S. port of Savannah, Georgia and then transported cross county to a TRIGA reactor in Denver,
South Carolina Environmental Law project (SCELP) takes on the issue of environmental review of production for plutonium pits for nuclear weapons!
Read about it and more admirable work of SCELP in their February 2021 news update.
“Groups ask Biden for wider environmental review of nuke work” for unjustified, new nuclear weapons
Groups ask Biden for wider environmental review of nuke work
Associated Press in Washington Post, February 17, 2021
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Watchdog groups want the Biden administration to reconsider a decision by a U.S.
Proud Opposition to Dumping Rocky Flat Plutonium Pit Production on SRS Reaches 30th Anniversary
DON’T DUMP ROCK FLATS ON SOUTH CAROLINA!
Public efforts to stop plutonium pit production at SRS have now reached 30 years old.
Biden Administration Asked by Public Interest Groups to Review Plutonium Pit Expansion Plans for Nuclear Warheads
Biden Administration Asked to Review Plutonium Pit Expansion Plans
News release, February 12, 2021 – by South Carolina Environmental Law Project (SCELP), SRS Watch, Nuclear Watch New Mexico &
SRS Watch Comments on Plutonium-Fueled “Versatile Test Reactor” – Halt EIS process for Unjustified Sodium-Cooled Reactor
SRS Watch has submitted comments in response to the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy’s draft Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed and unjustified “Versatile Test Reactor” (VTR) which is facing big funding challenges in Congress.
Los Alamos National Lab’s Doom Machine – Planning for Full-Scale Nuclear War – Faces Challenge by Patriots
“Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Lab Opens Office in the City of the Santa Fe (“Holy Faith”) of Peace and Environmental Protection”
News from Nuclear Watch New Mexico,
SRS Aiming to Dump More Reclassified High-Level Nuclear Waste at Texas Low-Level Nuclear Waste Dump? Article in Texas Tribune
“West Texas is on track to get even more nuclear waste — thanks to the federal government”
A hazardous waste disposal company in Andrews County wants to handle more dangerous levels of nuclear waste.
How will Grout Poured into Empty High-Level Waste Tanks at SRS Perform? Will Degradation Lead to Groundwater Contamination?
“SUMMARY OF DECEMBER 9, 2020, WEBINAR CALL RELATED TO EXPERIMENTS CONDUCTED BY THE SAVANNAH RIVER ECOLOGY LABORATORY AND THE CENTER FOR NUCLEAR WASTE REGULATORY ANALYSES TO SUPPORT TANK FARM CLOSURE AT THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE”
Safety Board: Radiation Does Rates High as a Nuclear Firecracker in New SRS High-Level Waste Facility
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) – thanks for their oversight! – reports high radiation levels in new high-level waste processing facility at SRS, now undergoing start up –
SRS Watch to DOE: Full Environmental Review Needed of All Plutonium Planned for WIPP Repository in New Mexico; Programmatic EIS (PEIS) needed for plutonium waste from pit production, plutonium disposition and fuel fabrication for Versatile Test Reactor
Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) Needed on Plutonium Disposition and All Plutonium Waste Streams Designated for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) – including from Plutonium Disposition,
Future Well Drillers at What Was Once SRS -Beware! Rad Waste Vaults Below!
CAUTION urged to future well drillers at what was once the Savannah River Site and Idaho National lab – vaults with radioactive waste may lurk below! Subsurface material disposed of as “Waste Incidental to Reprocessing”
Test of Biden Administration has Begun – SRS Watch Sends in FOIA Request on January 20, 2021
SRS Watch accepts the new challenge to act patriotically and for the good of the nation. Will the new administration respond in kind? We have just mailed our first Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request of the Biden administration,
Plans to Dump German High-Level Nuclear Waste on SRS Remains on Life Support Due to Strong Citizen Opposition
“152 Jülicher Castoren stehen immer noch „an Ort und Stelle“ – Ein Erfolg für Westcastor?”
“152 Jülich Castors Still “in Place” – A Success for Westcastor?”
Plans to dump highly radioactive graphite spent fuel from Germany on SRS faces strong opposition in Germany.
Campaign to Dump Canadian Liquid High-Level Nuclear Waste on SRS Concludes, but More Waste Coming?
The United States and Canada have concluded a multi-year campaign to dump liquid high-level nuclear waste on the Savannah River Site. But indications are that more dumping from Canada is being considered.
Issues and Challenges Facing SRS in 2021 – Citizen Engagement with DOE will be Crucial, as it has been in the Past
Challenges Facing Host of Savannah River Site Projects in 2021; SRS Must Strive to Better Serve Public
Proposed and Unjustified SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP),
NNSA’s “Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan” – Bring on the Nukes, Increase the Threats to Our Security & Hand Over the Cash!
“NNSA Nuclear Plan Shows More Weapons, Increasing Costs, Less Transparency”
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA’s) new Stockpile Stewardship and Management Plan (SSMP) doubles the number of new nuclear warhead programs compared with the previous plan from 2019.
Unjustified $R$ Plutonium Bomb Plant, Dangerous New Nuclear Warhead Programs to Face Strong Opposition in 2021
“Under Trump, the nuclear weapons industry has boomed – Expansion could be scaled back as President-elect Biden and Congress prioritize pandemic and recession problems.”
Article on Versatile Test Reactor (aka Virtual Test Reactor) – Given Cost & Risks How Long Can this Project Last?
SRS Watch in “DOE publishes reactor impact statement”
Idaho Falls Post Register, December 21, 2020
“The U.S. Department of Energy has released the draft environmental impact statement for a test reactor it would like to build at Idaho National Laboratory.”
DOE Funding Document Posted as Part of Omnibus Process, December 21, 2020
Congress has finally posted funding language for Fiscal Year 2021.
Full Omnibus bill: https://rules.house.gov/sites/democrats.rules.house.gov/files/BILLS-116HR133SA-RCP-116-68.pdf
Division D – Energy & Water funding:
https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20201221/BILLS-116RCP68-JES-DIVISION-D.pdf
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Plutonium Pit Production.-The agreement reiterates House direction regarding plutonium pit production and clarifies that the plan to complete a resource-loaded integrated master schedule shall include all pit production-related project and program activities that shall provide additional details within high-level milestones for projects based on GAO best practices.