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The report of radioactive wasps at the Savannah River Site is a story that still has wings. Buzz! Buzz!
SRS Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for more information about the source of the contamination and SRS is now processing the request: SRO-2025-03439-F Clements first letter wasps August 11 2025
The State newspaper in Columbia,
From Nuclear Watch New Mexico on our video linked below: “Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Tri-Valley CAREs, SRS Watch and the South Carolina Environmental Law Project were asked to provide a video to the Nobel Peace Conference –
Hiroshima vigil on 80th anniversary of the bombing, August 6, 2025, Columbia, SC, 6:30 p.m.
SRS Watch will be there
The radioactive wasps are harbingers of bigger problems at SRS: massive amounts of high-level nuclear waste, site contamination, a shift to plutonium pit production (requiring shipment of and the dangerous processing of plutonium) and a DOE facility that just can’t be honest with the public.
Head’s up! A nest of radioactive wasps was recently discovered in one of the high-level waste tank areas at SRS!
Does this indicate a new type of killer wasp is on the loose?
PLEASE SUBMIT COMMENTS BY JULY 14, 2025ON ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW OF NEW PLUTONIUM BOMB FACTORIES
Below are some draft comments, with a link to a Word version, to be submitted by July 14 to the US DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to help set the “scope”
Lawsuit Compels Nationwide Public Review of Plutonium Bomb Core Production
AIKEN, S.C. — Today the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), the semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency within the Department of Energy,
Exposing the “Conspiracy Reality” of On-Going Planning at the Savannah River Site (SRS) for Full-Scale Nuclear War
Presentation by Tom Clements,
You are encouraged to attend one of these talks about the role of Savannah River Site in the nuclear arms race and enter into constructive dialogue about what the public can do to challenge the massive waste of resources on the nuclear buildup and the security and environmental threat it poses.
As we prepare for a Federal Register notice on environmental meetings on the impact of plutonium pit production at SRS and Los Alamos, this article is very timely.
Reasons the Small Modular Reactor (SMR) sections of the H 3309 energy bill before the South Carolina legislature should be eliminated
Savannah River Site Watch, fact sheet on problems in energy bill with both SMRs and state-funded nuclear industry booster group South Carolina Nuclear Advisory Council (NAC),
“Justice Prevails: A Grassroots Victory in the Fight against Nuclear Weapons Proliferation”
By Aspen Coriz-Romero, on National Priorities Project website, March 12, 2025
About our federal lawsuit victory against plutonium “pit”
Annual Contractor Performance Review Reveals that Proposed DOE Nuclear Weapons Plutonium-Component Facility at Savannah River Site Lacks Master Schedule or Updated Cost Estimate
National Nuclear Security Administration’s FY2024 “Performance Evaluation Report” (PER) for SRS: Plutonium “Pit” Plant Project Management is “Less than Adequate” &
SRS Watch has filed a FOIA request with DOE’s Savannah River Site for documents related to “DEIA.”
The request of February 3, 2025 is for the following documents:
Any communication,
“Hot Plutonium Pit Bomb Redux”
CounterPunch, January 31, 2025
Last week U.S. District Judge Mary Lewis Geiger, South Carolina, faulted the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Agency for ignoring the National Environmental Protection Act and rushing plans to fabricate plutonium pit bombs at Savannah River Site,
Historic Settlement Reached in NEPA Lawsuit Over Plutonium “Pit” Bomb Core Production
News release, January 17, 2025
AIKEN, S.C. — Nonprofit public interest groups have reached an historic settlement agreement with the Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous nuclear weapons agency,
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB), an independent agency that provides oversight of DOE activities, notes more problems at the SRS tritium-handling facilities. SRS process and package all tritium,
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JIMMY CARTER: Nuke Watchdog Commemorations
January 2, 2025
https://beyondnuclear.org/jimmy-carter-1924-2024-nuke-watchdog-commemorations/
[White House Oval Office photograph, signed by President Carter (October 1,
Thank you, Jimmy Carter, for your monumental environmental and non-proliferation decision in 1977! South Carolina and the nation owe you a debt of gratitude.
If not for President Carter’s declaration against the Barnwell spent fuel reprocessing plant (Allied General Nuclear Services),
We’re very honored to have been nominated by the Arms Control Association in Washington, DC for “Arms Control Person(s) of the Year,” along with fellow groups with which we are working!
Statement of Tom Clements, Director SRS Watch, on Nomination of Chris Wright as DOE Secretary
November 19, 2024
Based on the video I have seen of Mr.
DOE’s 2037 Deadlines for SRS: Realistic or Illusory?
by Don Moniak, The Aiken Chronicles, November 11, 2024
“The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Savannah River Site (SRS) has two major milestones to achieve by 2037.
“The sad legacy of the Savannah River plutonium plant”
Atlanta Journal-Constitution, November 6, 2024
Op-ed by Allie Maloney, a native Georgian and graduate of the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia,
Photo: Cover of document obtained via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by SRS Watch and other groups with so many pages blacked out so as to coverup need for research on pit aging.
Savannah River Site Watch Celebrates 10 Years of Public-Interest Advocacy for the Environment, Nuclear Nonproliferation
News release linked here: https://www.einnews.com/pr_news/757512140/savannah-river-site-watch-celebrates-10-years-of-public-interest-advocacy-for-the-environment-nuclear-nonproliferation
COLUMBIA, SC, November 4,
“NNSA Loses Environmental Regulation Lawsuit”
A U.S. District Court judge ruled on Sept. 30 that the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) violated the National Environmental Policy Act by failing to conduct a proper analysis of alternatives that takes into consideration environmental impacts after significantly modifying plans for plutonium pit production in 2018.
Westinghouse Official to be Sentenced on November 20 for Role in South Carolina Nuclear Reactor Construction Debacle at V.C. Summer Site
Columbia, SC – After various delays,
Drones spotted over US nuclear reactors in 2022, 2023 and 2024 – US Nuclear Regulatory Commission lists in response to Freedom of Information Act request
These lists are interesting but don’t reveal if the drones flights were by hobbyists or something else.
“Plutonium just had a bad day in court”
“In a major decision whose consequences are still being assessed, a federal judge declared that plutonium pit production — one ingredient in the U.S.
