This opinion piece underscores the importance of the House-Senate “conference committee” on the defense bill (National Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2020), where the fate of the unjustified Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at Savannah River Site will be decided.
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SRS Watch Challenges Reuse of MOX Building as Unjustified “Plutonium Bomb Plant”
Savannah River Site Watch Revamps Website, Challenges NNSA’s Reuse of MOX Building as “Plutonium Bomb Plant”
Group Urges Armed Services Committees to Reject Expanded Plutonium “Pit” Production for Nuclear Weapons,
Congress to Decide on Defense Bill, Unjustified “Plutonium Bomb Plant” at SRS
The fate of the unjustified “Plutonium Bomb Plant” (PBP) at DOE’s Savannah River Site is on the table this week when the defense bill – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 –
SRS Watch to Armed Services: No Funding for “Plutonium Bomb Plant” (PBP) at SRS, Require Proliferation Risk Assessment
The status of new plutonium “pit” production, for the cores of nuclear weapons, is the subject of negotiations in a conference committee between the U.S. House and Senate over their differing versions of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (NDAA).
U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee to Act on DOE Budget, September 12, 2019
Senate Appropriations to “mark up” legislation on DOE spending – will they act responsibly for our national security or will they support dangerous projects like the proposed “Plutonium Bomb Plant”
More Highly Radioactive Research Reactor Spent Fuel Headed to SRS
SRS is set to accept more foreign research reactor spent fuel, including from Canada and Japan. There is no environmental or proliferation justification for low enriched uranium (LEU) fuels to be accepted from Canada or other countries.
SRS Watch Requests Modified Agreement with Germany for Research on Illegal Plan to Export Spent Fuel to SRS
Savannah River Site Watch has filed another Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for an amended “work for others” agreement between SRS (Savannah River National Lab) and the Jülicher Entsorgungsgesellschaft für Nuklearanlagen (JEN).
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Japan’s plutonium stockpile remain proliferation threat
Japan reports domestically and to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it continues to stockpile a large amount of weapon-usable plutonium. Japan should make an official announcement that its bungled plan to reprocess spent nuclear reactor fuel in the problem-plagued Rokkasho facility,
Time to Hit the Brakes on the Unjustified Plutonium Pit Project at SRS
“Guest Column: New plutonium mission at SRS is the pits”
Succumbing to organizational flaws, the U.S. Department of Energy is rushing into a controversial and complex project at the Savannah River Site for which costs and need have not been established.
DOE Documents on Plutonium, HEU Packaging and Shipment
1. FISSILE MATERIAL MINIMIZATION THROUGH PACKAGING AND REMOVAL OF PLUTONIUM FUEL MATERIALS
https://sti.srs.gov/fulltext/SRNL-STI-2019-00316.pdf
While there may need to be some removal of plutonium and highly enriched uranium in situations where the material is at risk of theft,
“Plutonium Bomb Plant” at SRS Designed to Fuel Nuclear Arms Race with Russia
TOTAL MADNESS!: The proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at SRS is part of the formula for a new US-Russia nuclear arms race.
“Russian Nuclear Blast Theories Hint at No-Holds-Barred Arms Race”
Plutonium Bomb Plant at SRS? “Plutonium & People Don’t Mix: Rocky Flats: Colorado’s Defunct Nuclear Bomb Factory”
We encourage you to read about the ongoing plutonium nightmare caused by DOE’s plutonium pit production at the Rocky Flats site near Denver, Colorado. This might cause you to think twice about the proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at SRS.
SRS Watch Submits Comments on Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) Environmental Documents
SRS Watch has submitted a series of comments on DOE’s proposal to “repurpose” the abandoned MOX building at SRS into a “Plutonium Bomb Plant” – for two documents under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
Groups Oppose Wasteful Spending in Defense Bill, Including on Plutonium “Pit” Production at SRS
SRS Watch and other Groups Write to Key members of Armed Services Committees about Wasteful Spending in National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, including on the Issue of Expanded Plutonium “Pit”
Plutonium Bomb Plant at SRS? Look at the Plutonium Mess Left by DOE at Rocky Flats
WARNING: DOE’s record on plutonium “pit” production (for nuclear weapons) is abysmal. Witness the Rocky Flats disaster and chronic plutonium-handling problems at Los Alamos National lab. Yet, DOE is a pushing the unfunded and unauthorized (by Congress) Plutonium Bomb Plant on the Savannah River Site,
SRS Watch Submits Comments on Proposed “Versatile Test Reactor”
SRS Watch has submitted comments for the “scoping” for the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the proposed “Versatile Test Reactor.” DOE has proposed that SRS make the fuel for the reactor but SRS has no experience with such work since the production reactors at SRS closed in the 1980s.
DOE Requests License to Export More Bomb-Grade Uranium
The U.S. Department of Energy – National Nuclear Security Administration – has filed an export license request with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to export “highly enriched uranium” (bomb-grade uranium) to Europe.
Nevada says: “The Department of Energy is trying to turn the Silver State into the Radioactive State.”
— State of Nevada files with 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on March 11, 2019 to stop more plutonium shipments from SRS to Nevada and require removal of 1/2 tonne already shipped to the Nevada National Security Site
Filing of March 11,
SRS Watch in: “Lethal legacy – Why SC is likely stuck with a stockpile of the nation’s most dangerous nuclear materials”
Charleston (South Carolina) Post & Courier, July 7, 2019, front page print edition
Articles on US DOE’s “scoping” meeting on preparation of an EIS on the proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at SRS.
Things are getting off to a very shaky start on this process as DOE is rushing things without presenting justification for the questionable plutonium “pit” project – DOE’s typical recipe for failure with such complex,
PLEASE ATTEND DOE’s environmental impact meeting on the unjustified Plutonium Bomb Plant
June 27, 5-9 p.m., North Augusta Community Center, 495 Brookside Ave, N. Augusta, South Carolina
“Guest Column: New plutonium mission at SRS is the pits”
“NNSA collects comments on plutonium pit proposal at SRS”
Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, June 27, 2019
“Opinions of SRS plutonium pit production clash at North Augusta public forum”
Aiken (South Carolina) Standard, June 27, 2019
June 27, 2019
“Locals divided on nuclear weapon program at SRS”
WFXG TV, Augusta, GA, June 27, 2019
https://www.wfxg.com/2019/06/28/locals-divided-nuclear-weapon-program-srs/
Meeting set for Thursday [June 27, 2019] on impact of SRS plutonium pit production
Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, June 26, 2019, article linked here
Plutonium “Pit” Production for New Nuclear Weapons Wrong for SRS – SRS Watch Opinion
Guest Editorial: New Plutonium Warhead Mission at SRS is the Pits
Aiken (South Carolina) Standard, June 24, 2019
by Tom Clements, Director, SRS Watch
Succumbing to organizational flaws,
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board makes stunning allegations about risks of tritium operations – for nuclear weapons – at SRS
See Recommendation 2019-02, in Federal Register, June 19, 2019
– linked here:
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2019-06-19/pdf/2019-12918.pdf
Effects of Tritium Release: Much of
the in-process tritium at the Tritium
Facilities may be in the form of gas,
“Proposed plutonium pit expansion raising questions”
WJBF TV, Augusta, Georgia
“Critics raise concerns over proposed atomic bomb factory near Aiken”
Front page article in The State newspaper, Columbia, SC,. June 15, 2019 on the forum on the Plutonium Bomb Plant proposed for SRS
print edition title: “Critics raise concerns over proposed atomic bomb factory near Aiken”