What to do with Japan’s plutonium stockpile at the Sellafield nuclear site in the UK? It has a huge negative value.
“What should be done with Japan’s plutonium now stored in the UK?
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DOE Pit Presentation Underscores No Justification for SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant, by Los Alamos, Nov. 14, 2019
DOE propaganda presentation on pits is woefully inadequate and fails to make the case for expanded pit production. Is this all they can come up with to sell new plutonium pit production for a new and unneeded nuclear warhead (“W87-1-like”)?!
Eight New Cracks in Aging High-Level Radioactive Waste Tanks Found, SRS Contractor Says Structural Integrity OK; Groundwater Plumes Monitored
“Annual Radioactive Waste Tank Inspection Program – 2018,” June 2019
“Rainwater continues periodically to be observed migrating into the annuli of some tanks. Evidence of this infiltration was primarily noted by observation of surface stains,
Exemption Sought to Ship Plutonium-238 Tanks from SRS to WIPP
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has issued an exemption to Nuclear Waste Partnerships. LLC to ship 2 boxes of transuranic waste from SRS to the DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico.
Disaster at Rocky Flats Plutonium Pit Site Holds Lessons for Proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant
FBI agent who raided Rocky Flats Plant to speak
Albuquerque (New Mexico) Journal, November 17, 2019
SANTA FE, N.M. — Jon Lipsky is a retired federal agent with a big notch in his gun – he shut down a plant that made plutonium parts for the nation’s nuclear weapons.
NNSA Must Comply with a Host of Things before Proceeding Further on SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP)
Among other things, DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNA) must halt proceeding on plans for the unauthorized and unfunded SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PMP) until the following (and other) things are complied with.
Uh oh…Discovery of Contamination in SRS Radiological Protection Department Office
“Occurrence Report” for radioactive contamination in a “clean area” of the SRS high-level waste vitrification plant (Defense Waste Process Facility)
On October 22, 2019,
Thanks to the League of Women Voters of SC for Opposing the Proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP)
“League of Women Voters S.C. opposes pit production at Savannah River Site”
“The League of Women Voters of South Carolina opposes the production of nuclear weapon cores,
Presentations by Speakers at Nov. 12 Events on SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant & Rocky Flats Plutonium Pit-Production Disaster
Focus of Presentations: Why the proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant at SRS is Dangerous and unnecessary & and Lessons Learned from the DOE’s Rocky Flats Disaster with Plutonium Pit Production in Colorado
Rocky Flats Disaster: Red Light for SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant,
Media Coverage of Nov. 12 Events on Unneeded “Plutonium Bomb Plant” at SRS & Lessons from the Rocky Flats Plutonium Disaster
Here are links to print articles, TV coverage and livestream of the Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) news conference and forum that were held on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 –
NNSA’s Violation of FOIA on Conversion of MOX Plant to Plutonium Bomb Plant is Challenged
Lawyer for SRS Watch demands response from DOE to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents on “repurposing” the shuttered plutonium fuel (MOX) plant into a Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP).
Plutonium Bomb Plant Forum on Nov. 12: Article in Aiken, SC Paper, Nov 11, 2019
“Watchdogs to warn of SRS pit production risks during public forum”
Aiken, SC paper, Nov. 11, 2019
SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) – Two Events on Tues., Nov. 12 by SRS Watch, in Aiken, SC, Augusta, GA
Proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) Focus of Public Two Events on Novembers 12, 2019 in Augusta, Georgia & Aiken, South Carolina
News Conference &
“ROCKY FLATS DISASTER: RED LIGHT for SRS PLUTONIUM BOMB PLANT” – Free Event on Nov. 12 in Aiken, SC
Public Forum on SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) coming on November 12 in Aiken, South Carolina – Please attend
The ad on the event in Aiken,
Public Forum on SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant & Lessons Learned from the Rocky Flats Plutonium Disaster, Nov. 12, Aiken, SC
SRS Watch news on NNSA’s Proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant at Savannah River Site and Lessons Learned from the Rocky Flats Plutonium Disaster – Forum in Aiken, SC on November 12,
Questions Raised by GAO about Plutonium Downblending at SRS
Surplus Plutonium Disposition: NNSA’s Long-Term Plutonium Oxide Production Plans Are Uncertain
GAO-20-166: Published: Oct 23, 2019. Publicly Released: Oct 23, 2019.
The National Nuclear Security Administration manages 57.2 metric tons of surplus plutonium.
Public Interest Groups Push Back Against DOE’s New Nuclear Bomb Plant at Y-12 in Oak Ridge, Tennessee
“Citizen Groups File Motion to Enforce Court Order Vacating NNSA Decision on Uranium Processing Facility Construction”
If DOE/NNSA continues to move toward the unauthorized Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at SRS without following the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA),
Problems Keep Coming at Westinghouse Uranium Nuclear Fuel Plant in Columbia, SC – Big Accident Lurking?
SRS Watch director in “Nuclear workers hospitalized; Columbia plant runs afoul of safety rules – again”
The State, Columbia, South Carolina, October 23, 2019- on line &
Plutonium Disaster at DOE’s Rocky Flats: Red Alert for NO Plutonium Bomb Plant at SRS
Rocky Flats Disaster: Red Light for SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant
Public Forum on Tuesday, November 12, 7: 00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. at the Aiken,
DOE Reports Nationwide Amounts of DOE and Commercial Spent Fuel Inventories – Problem Getting Worse as No Long-term Disposition Plan Exists
Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste Inventory Report, prepared for DOE, September 2019
83,500 MT of commercial spent fuel & 2300 MT of DOE spent fuel
“This report provides information on the inventory of commercial spent fuel (SNF) and high-level
radioactive waste (HLW) in the United States,
DOE Oversight Board Meets on Safety of Tritium Facilities (for Nuclear Weapons) at SRS – DNFSB to Discuss NNSA’s Rejection of Board Recommendation
“The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board will hold a public meeting to provide an opportunity for the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration to brief the Board on their basis for rejecting Recommendation 2019-2 and the actions completed,
Secretary of Energy Perry to Bail Out of Trump’s Deepening Muck – But a Bit Too Late to Avoid the Splatter?
“Perry Tells Trump He Will Resign as Energy Secretary –
Rick Perry, the former governor of Texas who has become enmeshed in the Ukraine scandal, said he would resign as secretary of energy.”
A Public-Interest Hero Passes; Martin Forwood’s Work Against Reprocessing at Sellafield Nuclear Complex, UK Resulted in a Victory for the Environment and Public
A giant has fallen. Martin Forwood was a highly respected campaigner and friend of SRS Watch and will be sorely missed. His tireless work gainst spent fuel reprocessing at the THORP facility Sellafield in the UK resulted in ultimate victory.
Nevada seeks to restart lawsuit over needless plutonium shipment from SRS
Good for the State of Nevada. There is no need to be shipping plutonium from SRS to other sites with no final destination and absent disposition plans.
“Nevada seeks to restart lawsuit over US plutonium shipment”
Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board to Meet on DOE Spent Fuel Storage, Including that Stored in the L-Basin at SRS
It’s about time that somebody pushed SRS on exploring dry cask storage of spent fuel (vs reprocessing in the aged H-Canyon). They have been dragging their feet on that for many,
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Reviews Disposal of High-Level Waste Byproducts in “Salt Disposal Units” at SRS
“SAVANNAH RIVER SITE SALT WASTE DISPOSAL NRC Onsite Observation Visit, September 17, 2019”
https://adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/webSearch2/main.jsp?AccessionNumber=ML19281C983
“FIELD OBSERVATION PHOTOS FROM SAVANNAH RIVER SITE SALT WASTE DISPOSAL –
Drill at SRS Tritium Facilities Observed by Safety Board, Problems Revealed
Drill at SRS facilities processing tritium – radioactive gas used to boost the explosive power of nuclear weapons – runs into snags
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB),
Opinion Against Unjustified “Plutonium Bomb Plant” at SRS: “Expanding nuclear weapon production is reckless”
As Congress discusses defense authorization & spending for Fiscal Year 2020, good to see this opinion column against unjustified plutonium “pit” production at SRS (in a proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant –
No MOX Case before US Supreme Court – Last Gasp of the Debacle?
Looks like South Carolina Attorney Wilson has failed in his last-gasp attempt to get a hearing about termination of the MOX boondoggle onto the docket of the US Supreme Court.
SC Dept of Labor, Licensing and Regulation Takes a Dodge, Declines to Hold Disciplinary Hearing Against Westinghouse re VC Summer AP1000 Reactor Design Certification
The South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation (LLR) has declined to open a formal disciplinary hearing against Westinghouse concerning information that design of the AP1000 reactors at the VC Summer site were not stamped by board-certified engineers.