Annual radiation monitoring and status report for Nuclear Ship Savannah (NSS) for Calendar Year 2018, posted on March 11, 2019 by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The fate of long-retired ship now berthed in Baltimore,
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President Trump’s federal budget request overview for Fiscal Year 2020 has been posted
on March 11, 2019 – needs congressional review, changes & approval & EISs; includes 11% cut in DOE; proposes funds for “repurposing” of MOX facility for plutonium pit production at SRS and an increase in “dilute &
If you’ve followed the unfaltering mega-hype by nuclear industry PR machine about “small modular reactors,” you may be interested in this article.
“The Pentagon wants to boldly go where no nuclear reactor has gone before. It won’t work.”
Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Feb. 22, 2019 – article linked here
What devilish enemy would dare target an operating nuclear reactor on a US military base in a war zone?!
SRS Watch in “U.S. Pivots From Nuclear Reactor Fuel to Bomb Cores”
Environment News Service, posted
Feb. 19, 2019 – article linked here
DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) refuses, so far, to prepare the legally mandated Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) on pit production.
So, is this how the MOX shakedown worked?!
Do tell!
We think we’re on the cusp of figuring out they ran the MOX $cam off the back of patriotic taxpayers…
If you’re a former MOX worker or have information,
HOT NEWS on CB&I AREVA MOX Services fraud, waste, abuse & mismanagement
– complaint filed by Department of Justice under False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Act — Update, February 19, 2019
Amazing to see: “United States of America vs Defendant CB&I AREVA MOX Services LLC and Defendant Wise Services Inc”
“Who? Me?!” cries MOX Services! It was them (Wise Services) who defrauded the MOX project not us little ole innocent program managers!
It’s gone almost unnoticed, but did you see that CB&I Areva MOX Services brought a federal case against Wise Services in November 2018, claiming it was Wise Services that was responsible for millions of $$$ in fraudulent charges paid by NNSA and not MOX Services?!
SRS Watch shares the concern in this article about PACER: “Attacking a Pay Wall That Hides Public Court Filings”
As crazy and anti-transparency as it sounds, did you know the public must pay 10 cents per page to download federal court papers, via the court’s PACER system? SRS Watch –
State of Nevada filing with Nevada federal district court, February 7, 2019: “PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR INJUNCTION PENDING APPEAL”
“Due to Nevada’s concerns about the DOE’s actions, the State has appealed this Court’s January 30, 2019, Order, which denied its motion for a preliminary injunction during the litigation of this case.
Appeal by State of Nevada to block further plutonium shipments from SRS to South Carolina has on February 5, 2019 been assigned a case number by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, but no hearing date yet set
“Office of the Clerk United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Post Office Box 193939 San Francisco, California 94119-3939 415-355-8000 February 05, 2019
Short Title:
State of Nevada v.
Low quality obfuscation from DOE
Low quality obfuscation from DOE – which doesn’t answer what happened to the “missing” 1/2 tonne of plutonium – was it shipped to Pantex in Texas or another DOE site,
“Plutonium shipped from Savannah River Site to Nevada, court filing states”
Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, January 30, 2019 – linked here
SRS Watch in “The government secretly shipped plutonium out of South Carolina. But tons remain”
Charleston (South Carolina) Post & Courier, Jan. 31, 2019
“This shipment does absolutely nothing to solve what happens to the plutonium at the Savannah River Site,” said Tom Clements,
U.S Nuclear Regulatory Commission grants license exemptions
U.S Nuclear Regulatory Commission grants license exemptions to CB&I AREVA MOX Services for MOX fuel fabrication facility until such time the NRC terminates the license – Note that the license has not been terminated yet!
Bombs Away at SRS? Not So Fast!
Citizens in South Carolina express opposition to unjustified, costly, dirty production of plutonium “pits” (for nuclear weapons) in the shuttered plutonium fuel (MOX) plant at the DOE’s Savannah River Site –
SRS Watch update, January 25, 2019
Nuclear Weapons Profiteers Beware: This will not stand – $94 billion increases in cost of nuclear weapons over next decade – to $494 billion, a 23% increase since 2017
While DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) keeps digging a hole in avoiding preparing the legally required Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) on expanded pit production,
SRS Watch tidbit – January 24, 2019 – “Pit Production Pitfalls”
Good to see that an invitation-only briefing has been scheduled in Congress about problems and obstacles associated with ramped up production of plutonium “pits” (for nuclear weapons).
Expanded pit production at Los Alamos National Lab and/or Savannah River Site (which has never produced pits),
State of Nevada filing in federal court in Nevada
State of Nevada filing in federal court in Nevada – against the State of South Carolina’s request to have a hearing on the unjustified removal of 1 metric ton of plutonium from SRS to Nevada be moved from federal district court in Nevada to South Carolina federal district court,
WOW! “Significant dose and contamination rates”
Stunning admission by SRS in receiving, processing and dumping unnecessary shipments of Canadian liquid high-level nuclear waste from Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario.
SRS mislabels the highly radioactive liquid as “Target Residue Material”
Hidden cost of Department of Energy operations
Hidden cost of Department of Energy operations – massive payment to former DOE workers via Department of Labor worker-exposure program
As of January 21, 2019, in 19,226 cases of worker exposure to chemical and radiation,
SRS Watch in “Rainwater contamination discovered at SRS processing plant”
SRS Watch in “Rainwater contamination discovered at SRS processing plant” [H-Canyon spent fuel reprocessing plant]
WRDW TV, Augusta, Georgia, January 17, 2019
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Nevada federal court allows intervention by State of South Carolina in in case involving unnecessary plutonium shipment from SRS to Nevada
On January 17, a hearing is slated to go forward in federal court in Nevada on the unjustified shipment of 1 metric ton of surplus weapon plutonium from SRS to the Device Assembly Facility (DAF) at the Nevada Nuclear Security Site.
Shipment of SRS plutonium to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico – salt mine dump for transuranic waste – faces opposition:
“Permit changes at WIPP face challenges”
Albuquerque (New Mexico) Journal, January 13, 2019
“Government shutdown won’t delay Nevada plutonium hearing” [about shipment of 1 metric ton of plutonium from SRS for “staging” at the Device Assembly Facility in Nevada]
Associated Press, Jan. 11, 2019
article linked here:
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/state/south-carolina/article224278610.html
Redefine, Dump & Go? DOE challenged on plan to redefine high-level nuclear waste
8 public interest groups that work on DOE issues send group extensive comments on DOE’s effort to end run Congress & redefine high-level waste (HLW) as something less, part of DOE’s effort to speed disposal and cut “clean-up”
SRS Watch in “Appeals court issues final ruling allowing DOE’s termination of MOX project”
– see SRS Watch news release of Jan. 8, 2019
Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, January 8, 2019
“State of Nevada request to stop SRS plutonium shipment goes to federal court”
SRS Watch in
“State of Nevada request to stop SRS plutonium shipment goes to federal court”
WXGF TV, FOX 54< Augusta, Georgia, January 7, 2018
SRS Watch in Las Vegas newspaper article on senseless plutonium shipment:
”Hearing set for lawsuit to block shipment of plutonium to Nevada”
Las Vegas, Nevada, Review-Journal, Jan. 7, 2019
More worker layoffs at MOX boondoggle: South Carolina WARN Act notice of January 7, 2019
105 employees by CB&I Project Services Group and 13 employees by Orano Federal Services, to be laid off by March 4, 2019
The MOX termination crew must be getting fairly lean in size.
Another WARN Act layoff notice
nother WARN Act layoff notice – dated January 4, 2019 – given to an additional 105 workers of CB&I Project Services Group at the terminated MOX boondoggle, with “layoff”