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Faked tests or faked testing? Or not?  Use of synthetic urine or not?  Attention CB&I AREVA MOX Services and NNSA: for the sake of worker and public safety, please publicly explain and defend your drug testing program at the MOX site.

SRS Watch Obtains MOX Fiscal Year 2015 Award Fee Documents for CB&I AREVA MOX Services via FOIA request, Publicly Releases them as DOE’s NNSA and CB&I AREVA MOX Services Fail to Do So

MOX Services Rated “Satisfactory” for Bonus Fee Award for FY 2015

NNSA Determines “Overall performance below the level needed for successful project execution” and Drug Testing Inadequate!!!!

“Trillion Dollar Trainwreck: Out-of-control U.S. nuclear weapons programs accelerate spending, proliferation, health and safety risks” — Report on the US DOE’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget request to Congress, by the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability,

National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) releases signed “Record of Decision” (ROD) on disposing of 6 metric tons of plutonium located at SRS in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP),

The DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) delivered its 2015 report to Congress on April 1, 2016 and affirmed termination of the MOX boondoggle.

NNSA report Prevent,

New Aerial Photos Released of Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Plant Under Construction at U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina

To view all photos,

Pre-Nuclear Security Summit Briefing on Plutonium Disposition and “Alternatives to MOX” at US DOE’s Savannah River Site (SRS), Augusta, Georgia (near SRS), 10:30 a.m., March 29, 2016, at SRS Citizens Advisory Board meeting

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Pacific Egret docks in Tokai-Mura, Japan to pick up 331 kgs of plutonium; Egret departed at about 3 p.m. Japan time on March 22, 2016, bound for SRS,

Exclusive Photos of Not-So-Secret Plutonium Operation in Japan!  

Mission has been badly bungled, backfires

“Nuclear Security Summit Effect” — Stimulating Plutonium Shipment from Japan to US 
 
Slideshow is of PNTL’s UK-flagged Pacific Egret arriving and docking in the port of Tokaimura on March 21,

Obama & the “Nuclear Security Summit Effect”: Nuclear Shipments to the Savannah River Site and Non-Proliferation Theatrics?

This week in Washington, the SRS Watch director, Tom Clements,

NNSA Cracks, Finally Admits Plutonium Import from Switzerland to US (SRS)….Like We’ve Been Saying for Weeks

National Nuclear Security Administration
U.S Department of Energy
For Immediate Release –

NNSA Gobsmacked Over Losing Control of Plutonium-Shipment News – Allegiance to Nuclear Security Summit PR Rather than Transparency with the Public Catches Officials Flat Footed – Plutonium-Shipment Cat Jumps Out of the DOE Nuclear Bag as NNSA Maintains a Bumbling Silence

Swiss Government Forced to Admit Shipment of 20 Kilograms (44 Pounds) of Plutonium to the United States – to US DOE’s Savannah River Site,

February 29 (Leap Year) Update:  The Oceanic Pintail is expected back in its home port of Barrow on the Monday afternoon, February 29, high tide. US DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration maintains its unjustified and stunned silence about the shipment to SRS of German and Swiss plutonium on board the Pintail.

ATTENTION International Non-Proliferation and Environmental Community:  The count-down on the arrival of the UK-flagged Pacific Egret and Pacific Heron to pick up 331 kilograms of plutonium at Tokai, Japan has begun.

“Activist group praises ORNL’s reactor report”

– in Frank Munger’s Atomic City Underground blog (Knoxville, Tennessee), February 26, 2016 – linked here

SRS Watch alert,

Ship Arrives in Charleston, South Carolina with Nuclear Cargo Destined to be Stranded at the Savannah River Site; Cargo of Plutonium from Germany (Karlsruhe) and Switzerland (Paul Scherrer Institut) in Advance of Nuclear Security Summit (Washington,

MOX gets MASHED!  DOE, After All the Painful Years of the MOX Mess Dragging On & On, Says MOX Boondoggle is to be Terminated

DOE Budget Calls for Termination of for Mismanaged Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Project at DOE’s Savannah River Site;

SRS Watch news, February 6, 2016

news release linked here

UK-Flagged Ships Set to Transport Plutonium from Japan to US Located in Panama Canal!
 

Transport Ships Involved in Controversial Plutonium Shipment from Japan to US DOE’s Savannah River Site (SRS) Depart Port in Great Britain, Transport Completion Doubtful before Nuclear Security Summit in March

Bulk of 331 Kilograms of Plutonium is of UK Origin and Must Not be Dumped at SRS –

Statement by Tom Clements, Director, Savannah River Site Watch on DOE’s DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE ACCEPTANCE AND DISPOSITION OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL CONTAINING U.S.-ORIGIN HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY,

More photos just released of possible ships to be used to transport plutonium from Japan to Charleston, South Carolina and on to SRS, where there is no viable disposal path for the material

Photos of Pacific Egret,

BREAKING NEWS: US DOE rammed through a decision to bring the 900 kg of “gap” plutonium to SRS, including 236 kg of UK-origin plutonium at the FCA in Japan.  

SRS Watch news release, December 23, 2015 — Federal Register notice of December 24, 2015 linked here

DOE Deals Blow to Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Program at Savannah River Site (SRS) by Choosing to Dispose of 6 Metric Tons of Plutonium at SRS as Waste,

In Report Released Today, SRS Watch Calls on State of South Carolina to Oppose UK Plutonium to SRS:

DOE’S SOUTH CAROLINA PLUTONIUM DILEMMA: PLUTONIUM KEEPS SECRETLY COMING IN BUT NO VIABLE PLAN TO TAKE IT OUT

Columbia,

Secret Plans Underway to Bring Spent Research Reactor Stored in the United Kingdom to the Savannah River Site – Material from the Republic of Georgia Should Stay in the UK

Proposal On Top of Plans to Bring Foreign Plutonium to SRS as Nuclear Security Summit Approaches

Is SRS Becoming an International Nuclear Waste Site Under Thin Veil of Nuclear Non-Proliferation?

In Quietly Released Environmental Document, DOE Refuses to Analyze Disposal of Canadian Liquid High-Level Nuclear Waste in Canada, Supports Processing and Dumping at Savannah River Site —

Under Guise of Nuclear Non-Proliferation,

CB&I AREVA MOX Services vs DOE/NNSA Smackdown!!!

MOX Contractor Contradicts DOE on Construction Problems at MOX Plant at the Savannah River Site;

Update of this news: Production of plutonium oxide in the HB-Line was terminated after problems faced & MOX project termination (August 15, 2019)

DOE Confirms HB-Line at SRS to Go into 24/7 Production for Plutonium Oxide”Feed Stock”

U.S. Confirms to IAEA that 4.5 Metric Tons of Surplus Plutonium have been Disposed of as Waste

Overlooked in Plutonium Disposition Debate: DOE has already Disposed of Large Amount of Surplus Weapons Plutonium as Waste in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP),