As the coronavirus spreads in the US and South Carolina – location of the Savannah River Site – what is the US Department of Energy doing concerning the 11,000 employees at SRS?
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DNFSB Reschedules Meeting on SRS to June 1, 2020, in Aiken, SC
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) March 19 meeting on SRS was cancelled and has now been rescheduled for June 1, 2020, but we wonder if that will happen.
“Non-Proliferation Treaty turns 50 as US funds new nukes” – Opinion Piece by Nuclear Watch New Mexico, SRS Watch Ally, Exposes Efforts by US DOE for New and Costly Nuclear Arms Race
“Non-Proliferation Treaty turns 50 as US funds new nukes” — by Jay Coghlan of Nuclear Watch New Mexico, a sister organization of SRS Watch in the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA),
DNFSB March 19 Meeting on SRS Oversight Postponed to Summer, Due to Coronavirus
March 10 Update: The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) has notified SRS Watch that due to the coronavirus “and other issues” that the March 19 “Public Hearing on the Status of the Savannah River Site”
NNSA Aiming to Spin Up Giant Black Money Hole on Nuclear Weapons Spending, including for the $R$ Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP)
“The White House gave this nuclear agency a giant funding increase. Can it spend it all?”
Uh, no…..
Article in Defense News, March 3,
What’s Up with the Start-up of the $2.3-Billion (and Rising?) SWPF at SRS? March, April or Not?
Is the scheduled start-up of the far over-budget, far behind-schedule Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) at risk?
The SWPF facility is key to SRS high-level waste management.
GAO Underscores Rough Path Ahead for Overly Ambitious Plans for $R$ Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP)
Government Accountability Office (GAO), March 3, 2020: “NNSA’s Modernization Efforts Would Benefit from a Portfolio Management Approach”
“The Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is conducting four programs to modernize nuclear weapons,
MOX Zombie Officially Dead but Lives on as Contractor Honey Hole: Proposed $R$ Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP)
The federal court decision is the final death blow of the MOX debacle but that zombie project has morphed into a contractor money machine (for the $R$ Plutonium Bomb Plant –
Good On Senators Feinstein and Markey for Demanding Cost on NNSA Nuclear Weapons Scheme
“Feinstein, Markey Request GAO Study on Affordability of Nuclear Weapons”
Feb 27 2020
Washington – Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Edward J. Markey (D-Mass) today requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) examine if nuclear modernization activities undertaken by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) are sustainable and affordable investments in our national security.
BOOM Goes the Budget as DOE Plans for Nuclear War: $4.6 Billion Target for Unjustified Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at $R$
DOE Plans for $4.6 Billion Cost to Convert the Ill-Constructed MOX Plant into a Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at Savannah River Site by 2026-2030; Money to be Spent on Top of $8 Billion Wasted on MOX
Plan to Seek $442 Million for PBP in Fiscal Year 2021 Confirmed in Feb.
Emergency Event at SRS Terminated, Feb. 25
“The all clear has been given regarding the emergency event.”
—–UPDATE 12:57 p.m.—–
The all clear has been given regarding the emergency event.
The emergency event was declared due to a security event when a vehicle attempted to enter a secure area of the site for routine work activated explosive detection devices.
DOE Budget Confusion: Vague Plan to Throw Money at Plutonium Pit Production Sets Up the Complicated Project for Failure
SRS Watch in “Proposed budget would almost triple plutonium spending”
Santa Fe New Mexican, February 24, 2020
Tom Clements, executive director of the nonprofit Savannah River Site Watch,
DOE’s Unjustified, Secretive SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant Funding Increase to be Challenged by Congress
DOE Budget Documents Reveals Massive, Unrealistic Funding Request for Plutonium Bomb Plant at SRS
Columbia, South Carolina – New budget-request documents released by the U.S.
Terminate Scheme between SRS and Germany to Dump Highly Radioactive German Spent Fuel at SRS
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,
More Documents Filed in Federal Court in MOX Fraud Case & Dates Set for Moving Forward; Tip of the MOX Fraud Iceberg?
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.
Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at SRS: “A DANGEROUS PATH” – Daily Beast article, Feb. 12, 2020
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 NRC Making Move to Encourage Spent Fuel Reprocessing in the US? If so = Total Madness & Taxpayer Ripoff in the Making
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,
Article: “Donald Trump Wants Billions of Dollars for New Nukes” – for New Nuclear Warheads & New Plutonium Pit Fabrication
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.”
SRS Watch: First Take on Massive Funding Increase in DOE Budget Request for FY2021 – for Plutonium Pits & New 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 Submits Comments on SRS Proposal to Dump High-Level Liquid Waste as Low-Level Waste
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.
SRS Nuclear Weapons, Security Contractor Rakes in Big Bonus from Taxpayers for FY2019
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,
DOE Budget Request on Feb. 10, 2020 to Blow Up the Budget, Stimulate Nuclear Arms Race? Push-back Certain on Unjustified SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant
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 –
Public Interest Groups Oppose Massive DOE Budget Increase in Planning for Nuclear War – DOE Budget Request to Congress Coming Feb. 10, Bulk of Increase could be for Unjustified Plutonium Pit Production
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,
SRS Watch Files FOIA Request for Withheld “Performance Evaluation Reports” for NNSA Contractors
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),
Shhh….NNSA Doesn’t Want to Know About Plutonium Pit Lifetimes -Just Give Us Your $$$$$ for a Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) to Fuel a New and Profitable Nuclear Arms Race
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”
DOE Aims to Enrich Nuclear Weapons Contractors, Fleece Taxpayers Over Unjustified Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) and Plutonium Pit Production
“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”
“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 in WBAI Radio Interview on the Dirty & Dangerous Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) Scheme, Jan. 17, 2020
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,
NNSA Bumbling Along with Misguided Plans for New Plutonium “Pit” Production for All US Nuclear Weapons
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.