One-stop website with the news this week on the tour of the SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant on April 21 by public interest groups & the news briefing at the S.C.
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“Impacts of plutonium pit production at Savannah River Site unveiled” – article on Plutonium Pit Plant PEIS, April 20, 2026
“Impacts of plutonium pit production at Savannah River Site unveiled”
Savannah Morning News, April 20, 2026
The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) released its draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for national production of up to 205 plutonium pits per year (ppy) on April 10.
MOX-Style Disaster Unleashed? NNSA Gives Failing Grade to Construction of SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant by Savannah River Nuclear Solutions
DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has released the “Performance Evaluation Report” (PER) for the work in Fiscal Year 2025 of the SRS plutonium Bomb Plant contractor, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS),
GAO: SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant Delays Mount and Costs Soar, Per Usual DOE Methodology, Feb. 26, 2026 report
DOE’s “Nuclear Security Enterprise” – Yes, it’s a busine$$ enterprise
“Assessments of NNSA Major Projects”
Government Accountability Office – GAO-26-107777, February 26, 2026
GAO observes that the SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant operation has slipped to 2035 and is likely to slip further and that costs are soaring,
Workers at SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant almost Sliced to Ribbons by Robot “Hydroblasting” External Wall: DOE & DNFSB Reports
Reports by the Department of Energy and the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) Reveal Near-Disastrous Worker Incident while Hydo-Blasting with a Robot through a Thick Concrete Wall at the MOX-to-Pit-Plant Project with a High Pressure Water Jet
The dodgy legacy grows of the SRS once-was-MOX plant and now Wanna-be Plutonium Bomb Plant,
Plutonium Shipment Secrecy – Ripe for Comments in the Plutonium-Pit-Production Draft Programmatic EIS in May 2026
Gearing up for public comments on the plutonium-pit-production draft Programmatic EIS, likely coming in May 2026:
Every Day, Nukes Are Riding Right Past People Like You
The United States government ships its nuclear materials,
SRS Watch on Nuclear Hotseat Podcast, November 11, 2025
Nuclear Hotseat, 7428 Valaho Drive, Los Angeles, CA 91042
podcast: https://www.nuclearhotseat.com/podcast/savannah-river-site-nuclear-weapons/
SC’s Savannah River Site & the Dept of Energy’s Nuclear Weapons Pit Push –
Tom Clements,
“LANL Prioritizes Plutonium “Pit” Bomb Core Production Over Safety” – Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Nov. 6, 2025
“LANL Prioritizes Plutonium “Pit” Bomb Core Production Over Safety”
News release from Nuclear Watch New Mexico, November 6, 2025: https://nukewatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/LANL-Prioritizes-Plutonium-Pit-Bomb-Core-Production-Over-Safety.pdf
Santa Fe,
“Brookfield Assets picked to take over failed VC Summer nuclear project” – article, Oct. 25, 2025
Brookfield Assets picked to take over failed VC Summer nuclear project
By Lucy Valeski and Sammy Fretwell – October 25, 2025. The State, Columbia, SC
In the same office where a massive nuclear project was abandoned eight years ago,
“Savannah River plutonium pit site embarks on hazardous waste plan” – article, Oct. 28, 2025
Savannah River plutonium pit site embarks on hazardous waste plan –
Unanswered questions and comments were directed towards a fish bowl, mostly empty
Savannah (Georgia) Morning News,
Good Article on SRS Pit Plant & Other Programs at SRS – Savannah newspaper, Oct. 9, 2025
“U.S. Dept. of Energy steps up plutonium pit manufacturing at Savannah River Site”
“The site is part of the nation’s effort of “re-establishing capabilities retired after the Cold War,”
Sign up for Plutonium Pit PEIS Updates, with UCS
“Pledge to Be a Voice for Peace and Science”
– from the Union of Concerned Scientist on the plutonium pit Programmatic EIS (that we won via federal lawsuit) –
DOE Moves toward Key Waste-Generation Permit for Proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant
Why are they doing this now and not until after the court-mandated Programmatic EIS has been finished? A draft of that document, on all impacts of plutonium pit production at all DOE sites,
Bad Idea: 20 Metric Tons of U.S. Plutonium Stockpiled for Fuel for Imaginary, Unlicensed Nuclear Reactors
A bad idea (or is it a scam?!): “White House could tap plutonium reserves for nuclear fuel” – ExchangeMonitor article, August 29, 2025
A repeat of the plutonium fuel (MOX) boondoggle at SRS…?
Hiroshima vigil, 80th anniversary of the bombing, August 6, 2025, Columbia, SC, 6:30 p.m.
Hiroshima vigil on 80th anniversary of the bombing, August 6, 2025, Columbia, SC, 6:30 p.m.
SRS Watch will be there
It’s the Buzz! Radioactive Wasps at SRS Point to Plutonium Pits and High-level Rad Waste
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.
Caution: Radioactive Wasps at SRS! The New “Killer Wasp?!”
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?
Talk on SRS, the Nuclear Arms Race & Upcoming Meetings on Plutonium “Pit” Production – May 10, Columbia, SC & livestream archived
Exposing the “Conspiracy Reality” of On-Going Planning at the Savannah River Site (SRS) for Full-Scale Nuclear War
Presentation by Tom Clements,
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
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.
Plutonium Pit Lawsuit: “Grassroots Victory in the Fight against Nuclear Weapons Proliferation”
“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”
“Hot Plutonium Pit Bomb Redux” – Environmental Victory for SRS Watch and Allies Concerning Impact of New Nuclear Weapons Production
“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,
Safety Board Points Out Tritium Processing Problems at SRS as 2024 Ends
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,
Well-deserved Tribute: “JIMMY CARTER: Nuke Watchdog Commemorations,” January 2, 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,
Thanks to Jimmy Carter for Monumental Non-Proliferation Decision in 1977! No Reprocessing of Spent Fuel at Barnwell, SC
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),
SRS Watch and Allied Groups nominated for “Arms Control Persons(s) of the Year”!
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!
SRS Watch Statement on Nominee Chris Wright for DOE Secretary – Video Reveals Energy Ignorance
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?,” The Aiken Chronicles, Nov. 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.
Op Ed: “The sad legacy of the Savannah River plutonium plant” – 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,
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
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.
“NNSA Loses Environmental Regulation Lawsuit,” on Proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (SRSPBP), Arms Control Today, Nov. 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.