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Talk on SRS, the Nuclear Arms Race & Upcoming Meetings on Plutonium “Pit” Production – May 10, Columbia, SC & livestream archived

SRSW · May 6, 2025 ·

Exposing the “Conspiracy Reality” of On-Going Planning at the Savannah River Site (SRS) for Full-Scale Nuclear War

Presentation by Tom Clements,

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Excellent article on NNSA’s scheme to make new plutonium pits: “DOGE’s staff firing fiasco at the nuclear weapon agency means everything but efficiency,” April 16, 2025, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

SRSW · April 16, 2025 ·

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.

Filed Under: Latest News

Plutonium Pit Lawsuit: “Grassroots Victory in the Fight against Nuclear Weapons Proliferation”

SRSW · March 14, 2025 ·

“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”

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“Hot Plutonium Pit Bomb Redux” – Environmental Victory for SRS Watch and Allies Concerning Impact of New Nuclear Weapons Production

SRSW · January 31, 2025 ·

“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,

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Safety Board Points Out Tritium Processing Problems at SRS as 2024 Ends

SRSW · January 3, 2025 ·

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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Well-deserved Tribute: “JIMMY CARTER: Nuke Watchdog Commemorations,” January 2, 2025

SRSW · January 3, 2025 ·

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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,

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Thanks to Jimmy Carter for Monumental Non-Proliferation Decision in 1977! No Reprocessing of Spent Fuel at Barnwell, SC

SRSW · December 30, 2024 ·

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),

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SRS Watch and Allied Groups nominated for “Arms Control Persons(s) of the Year”!

SRSW · December 13, 2024 ·

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!

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SRS Watch Statement on Nominee Chris Wright for DOE Secretary – Video Reveals Energy Ignorance

SRSW · November 19, 2024 ·

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.

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“DOE’s 2037 Deadlines for SRS: Realistic or Illusory?,” The Aiken Chronicles, Nov. 11, 2024

SRSW · November 11, 2024 ·

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.

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Op Ed: “The sad legacy of the Savannah River plutonium plant” – November 6, 2024

SRSW · November 6, 2024 ·

“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,

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Update on pit production environmental victory: “Delays, negotiations ongoing in environmental lawsuit over pit production,” Santa Fe New Mexican, Nov. 4, 2024 – Filing Due November 12

SRSW · November 5, 2024 ·

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.

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“NNSA Loses Environmental Regulation Lawsuit,” on Proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (SRSPBP), Arms Control Today, Nov. 2024

SRSW · November 2, 2024 ·

“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.

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Westinghouse Official to be Sentenced for Role in South Carolina Nuclear Reactor Construction Debacle at V.C. Summer Site., Nov. 20, 2024 in Federal Court in Columbia, SC

SRSW · November 1, 2024 ·

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,

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Drones Over US Nuclear Reactors in 2022, 2023 & 2024: US NRC FOIA Response

SRSW · October 29, 2024 ·

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.

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“Plutonium just had a bad day in court” – re Violations of US Environmental Law in Costly Pursuit of a New Nuclear Arms Race

SRSW · October 17, 2024 ·

“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.

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Flawed “Report” Promotes Dead-End Idea: Restart of VC Summer Nuclear Reactor Construction Debacle

SRSW · October 16, 2024 ·

A faulty idea that must be rejected: Restart of the VC Summer nuclear reactor construction boondoggle

A cursory “report” by the South Carolina Nuclear Advisory Council (NAC) –

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SRS Citizens Advisory Board to Meet Sept. 16-17 at Univ. South Carolina, Columbia

SRSW · September 11, 2024 ·

The Department of Energy’s SRS Citizens Advisory Board (SRS CAB) is to meet on September 16 & 17 at the Hipp-Close Building, 8th Floor at the University of South Carolina in Columbia,

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SRS Watch Official Comment: DOE Backing of Sodium-Cooled Reactor a Risky & Costly Venture in Wyoming

SRSW · September 10, 2024 ·

The U.S. Department of Energy is throwing a huge amount of tax payer money at so-called “advanced reactors,” hoping something will stick.  Nothing so far looks promising but one project,

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Excellent article raising doubts about unneeded plutonium “pit” production at SRS (for new nuclear warheads): “Another reason to cancel the Sentinel missile: the rising cost of its nuclear warhead”

SRSW · May 23, 2024 ·

“Another reason to cancel the Sentinel missile: the rising cost of its nuclear warhead” – at Savannah River Site & Los Alamos National Lab

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists,  by Stephen Young (Union of Concerned Scientists),

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SRS Watch to present on “Failure of the Westinghouse AP1000 Projects in the USA” at conference in Europe

SRSW · May 21, 2024 ·

This is what failure looks like. Photo by High Flyer – of canceled, in 2017 , VC Summer nuclear reactor units 2 & 3 in foreground and unit 1 (operating) by lake in background.

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“Nuclear Weapons at Any Price? Congress Should Say No,” May 13, 2024 op-ed, Scientific American

SRSW · May 14, 2024 ·

Nuclear Weapons at Any Price? Congress Should Say No
Scientific American, May 13, 2024, By Sharon K. Weiner

Costs are skyrocketing to modernize the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Instead of turning a blind eye,

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SRS Watch Brings “No New Plutonium Bomb Plant” Message to Bonnie Raitt Concert, with her Support, May 9, 2024

SRSW · May 10, 2024 ·

SRS Watch had a wonderful experience interacting with the public at a stupendous Bonnie Raitt concert on May 9 in North Charleston, SC.

We didn’t get back stage this time but we got a virtual hug and Bonnie gave us a shout from the stage.

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SRS Watch in Ploughshares Podcast: “Atomic Assembly: Savannah River Site, South Carolina,” May 1, 2024

SRSW · May 1, 2024 ·

SRS Watch in Ploughshares Nuke Talk podcast, posted on May 1, 2024

“Atomic Assembly: Savannah River Site, South Carolina”

If you’re interested in the history of the Savannah River Site,

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Absurd, Illogical Scheme to Reprocess Spent Fuel (to Remove Weapon-Usable Plutonium) will Fail but Backers may Grab Taxpayer Money

SRSW · February 29, 2024 ·

The Barnwell reprocessing plant in South Carolina, adjacent to the Savannah River Site, thankfully never operated, thus sparing South Carolina huge volumes of highly radioactive nuclear waste and separated weapon-usable plutonium.

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Congress aiming to weaken nuclear power regulation of US Nuclear Regulatory Commission; Legislation merits opposition

SRSW · February 28, 2024 ·

Photo: Unit 3 at Georgia Power’s Plant Vogtle, Georgia, started operation in August 2023; cover photo: units 3 and 4 (unit 4 is due to start operation in the 2nd quarter 2024,

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BOOM goes South Carolina in Nuclear Blast?!

SRSW · February 22, 2024 ·

Was the confused orange candidate raising the specter of South Carolina being hit by a massive nuclear weapon – from whom? – due to the DOE’s Savannah River Site being located here?

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Nuclear Waste from Japan, Bearing Weapon-Grade Plutonium and Highly Enriched Uranium, Soon to be Processed at SRS, Dumped into Waste Tanks

SRSW · February 13, 2024 ·

Materials from Japan containing significant amounts of weapon-grade plutonium and bomb-grade uranium – so-called Fast Critical Assemblies (FCAs) – were shipped by sea to the Savannah River Site,

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GAO Report Raises Possibility of More Plutonium-Contaminated Waste from 1996 Nuclear Bomber Accident in Palomares, Spain to US/SRS

SRSW · January 31, 2024 ·

Plutonium waste from Palomares, Spain to US? GAO report, Jan. 31, 2024 – “Nuclear Waste: Changing Conditions May Affect Future Management of Contamination Deposited Abroad During U.S. Cold War Activities”

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“Appalling” and “Abysmal” – “How the Department of Energy addressed Governor McMaster’s and Attorney General Alan Wilson’s conflicting and sometimes harsh opinions regarding the future of surplus plutonium”

SRSW · January 22, 2024 ·

“Appalling” and “Abysmal”

By Don Moniak, Aiken County, South Carolina – in The Aiken Chronicles, January 22, 2024

How the Department of Energy addressed Governor McMaster’s and Attorney General Alan Wilson’s conflicting and sometimes harsh opinions regarding the future of surplus plutonium.

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