Monitors a host of energy and nuclear issues from a public interest perspective
Time to End US-Germany Cooperation Aimed at Importing, Dumping Highly Radioactive German Spent Fuel at DOE’s Savannah River Site, According to SRS Watch; Storage at Jülich Only Viable Option
SRS-JEN Work for Others Agreement Modification 6 and Attachments,
The most recent case brought against MOX Services, contractor in charge of the failed plutonium fuel (MOX) project at SRS, moves slowly though the federal court system.
SRS Watch on the crazy, costly, unjustified proposal for a Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at SRS:
“Why Does Trump Want to Spend Billions on New Nukes?
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission moving to advocate for spent fuel reprocessing in the US?! If so this is total madness designed simply to funnel taxpayer money to any company, like Orano,
SRS Watch in “Donald Trump Wants Billions of Dollars for New Nukes — The administration of Pres. Donald Trump wants to boost by billions of dollars the federal government’s production of plutonium pits for nuclear weapons.”
UPDATE: DOE chickens out, hides in shadows and won’t today release budget details, tells taxpayers to TAKE A HIKE!
SRS Watch news: DOE’s Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2021 Blows up Debt and Heightens Risk of New Nuclear Arms Race;
SRS Watch Formal Comments on “Draft Environmental Assessment for the Commercial Disposal of Defense Waste Processing Facility Recycle Wastewater From the Savannah River Site”
SRS proposes to dispose of 10,000 gallons of high-level liquid tank waste via a grouted material dumped in a commercial low-level waste facility.
DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration has Posted Performance Evaluation Documents for Savannah River Nuclear Solutions for FY 2019; “Award Fee” Bonus Again Inexplicably High
Bonus Documents Released in Advance of DOE Budget Request to Congress for FY2021,
ANA/SRS Watch: “MEDIA ADVISORY: WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY’S FY 2021
NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND CLEANUP BUDGET REQUEST
February 6, 2020 –
COMMUNITIES PUSH BACK AGAINST REPORTS OF HUGE NUCLEAR WEAPONS BUDGET INCREASE
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA)/SRS Watch news release, February 4, 2020
Multiple sources indicate the FY2021 budget request from the Trump Administration will seek a dramatic increase in funding for nuclear weapons—an unprecedented leap of 20% over current spending levels,
Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, Savannah River Site Watch (SRS Watch) has filed the following request:
1) All National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) FY 2019 Performance Evaluation Reports (PERs),
NNSA says: Just shut up and give us the money for the proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP), even if it’s not justified or needed. Planning for large-scale nuclear war is profitable for DOE contractors and taxpayers don’t have the right to challenge our “logic”
“In nuclear spending fight, it’s Trump allies vs. White House budget office”
Defense News, January 23, 2020
WASHINGTON — A new fight over America’s nuclear budget has erupted from behind the scenes,
“Lawmakers Assured Review of Nuclear Weapons Work [on plutonium “pits] to Be Open”
Associated Press, Jan. 22, 2020
“Members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation say they’ve been assured by U.S.
SRS Watch radio interview on the crazy & co$tly scheme to turn the failed MOX plant into an unjustified Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP); a lawsuit under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) may loom
WBAI News with Paul DeRienzo,
Sierra Club program for January 27, 2020 will be on the proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at SRS
The John Bachman Group of the Sierra Club,
Here’s more proof that DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is once again engaged in a “planning” process for the proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at SRS that is already off to a very bumpy start.
Details of fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement in the cover-up by DOE & contractors in the MOX debacle is slowly coming out. We have the court filings in this case in case anyone wants them.
Lisa, it’s not God ( – read the article -) but it’s you and your big-government cronies and contractor$ who the ones pushing the costly and dangerous scheme to replace all pits in all nuclear weapons,
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB): “Public Hearing on the Status of the Savannah River Site”
SRS Watch and fellow members of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) support the oversight work of the DNFSB and work for congressional support of their mission.
Oh what a beautiful ship: Nuclear Ship Savannah (NS Savannah)!
The nation’s first nuclear-powered commercial ship failed in its mission but is still a beautiful sight to see.
Watchdog Groups Claim Nuclear Agency is Moving Forward to Manufacture New Plutonium Bomb Cores in Violation of National Environmental Law and an Existing Court Order
Group news release,
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 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.
Glovebox Handling Surplus Plutonium Can Cracked During Surveillance
Occurrence Report Number: EM-SR–SRNS-KAREA-2019-0002 –
Cracked KIS Glovebox Panel (U)
13. Subject or Title of Occurrence:
Cracked KIS Glovebox Panel (U)
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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: 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.
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,
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).
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?
