Monitors a host of energy and nuclear issues from a public interest perspective
Documents filed with Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals by DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration Affirm Commitment to MOX Boondoggle Termination, September 24, 2018
1. Letter to court relaying that the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2019 includes MOX waiver language –
Title: Status of U.S. NRC NDAA WIR Monitoring Activities at the U.S. DOE Savannah River Site
Date(s) and Time(s): September 18, 2018, 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM
Location: U.S.
NRC meeting notice linked here
Title: Status of U.S. NRC NDAA WIR Monitoring Activities at the U.S. DOE Savannah River Site – by Nuclear Regulatory Commission,
DNFSB’s “H-Canyon Justification for Continued Operation” – letter dated September 7, 2018 and attached report linked here
>>> The question begs: Should H-Canyon be closed until there is full resolution of this safety matter?
Please Attend! – agenda linked here
SRS Watch representative to make public comment, especially on misguided “dumping for profit” scheme to dump highly radioactive German waste on SRS
photo: casks at Juelich,
On September 13, 2018 the US House passed US DOE funding for Fiscal Year 2019. As the Senate has already passed the appropriations funding it now goes to the president to be signed into law.
by Savannah River Remediation, August 13-14, 2018, made public by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on September 12, 2018
Document URL in NRC’s digital library (ADAMS): https://adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/webSearch2/main.jsp?AccessionNumber=ML18247A080
Worker evacuation to other jobs is under way as abuse to taxpayers is weakened!
Trump White House Supports Fiscal Year 2019 Appropriations Agreement with Massive Cut to MOX Boondoggle –
SRS Watch – Friends of the Earth Nuclear Calendar PDF – linked here
September 11, 10 a.m. – S.C. legislature’s Public Utilities Review Committee (PURC) –
“ARIES Oxide Production Program Dilute and Dispose LCCE Overview,
Material Management and Minimization Program”
Los Alamos National Laboratory / Pit Disassembly and Processing
Los Alamos,
– September 10, 2018 – MOX Cut by a Massive One-third, and Spending on MOX Construction can be Waived
MOX TO BE DEVASTATED! When passed by the full Congress,
“Supplemental Analysis for the Removal of One Metric Ton of Plutonium from the State of South Carolina to Nevada, Texas and New Mexico”
DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration,
SRS is home to the other massive, failed nuclear construction project in the state: the $17-billion plutonium fuel ( MOX) factory
“The U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex: Overview of Department of Energy Sites”
anta Fe New Mexican, Sept. 5, 2018 – article linked here
Letter from Senators Heinrich and Udall, September 5, 2018 – linked here
Obtained by SRS Watch –
“A Nuclear Energy Meltdown Scrambles Southern Politics – South Carolinians have some of the highest electricity bills in the country, thanks in part to nuclear energy”
article,
REPLY BRIEF FOR APPELLANTS, filed with Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals – linked here
SUMMARY OF ARGUMENT (from the filing)
South Carolina’s theory of the case relies on the incorrect assumption that the Department of Energy (DOE) has decided to leave plutonium in South Carolina permanently.
“MOX protection not included in defense authorization measure signed by Trump”
Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, August 14, 2018
Key documents accompanying the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2019 –
LOWER RICHLAND COMMUNITY MEETINGS
WITH COUNCILMAN NORMAN JACKSON
6:30 p.m.- 8:30 p.m. Thursday, August 30, 2018 Lower Richland Sheriff Substation 2615 Lower Richland Blvd., Columbia, Topic: Water,
Did you notice that the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2019 – signed into law on August 13 – only “authorizes” $220 million for MOX construction and includes language allowing the Secretary of Energy to “waive”
– Why is the media avoiding covering this issue?
“MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY- NRC INSPECTION REPORT
NUMBER 70-3098/2018-003,” August 7, 2018 –
Federal judge denies SCE&G’s request for “preliminary injunction” to halt a reduction in customers’ bills for failed nuclear reactor project at VC Summer!
Starting August 7 the nuclear charge will be reduced from
18% to 3.2% of a customer’s bill.
As SRS profiteers ponder an expanded and unjustified role for nuclear weapons production at SRS, on the 73rd anniversary of the bombing, there will be a “Hiroshima Remembrance,” August 5,
Exchange Monitor, August 3, 2018 – article linked here
The Pentago takes on Senator Graham and boosters of the costly MOX debacle…
“United States Department of Energy Takes Steps to Halt Bungled Plutonium MOX Project at Savannah River Site: Judge Places Decision on Hold”
Also see other environmental stories of interest in the newsletter,
SAVANNAH RIVER SITE SALT WASTE DISPOSAL [of high-level waste by-product]
NRC Onsite Observation Visit
July 9-11, 2018
by Savannah River Remediation (contractor)
Report “SRR-STI-2018-00146 Revision 1” – linked here
NOTE: The document was posted on August 28, 2018 in the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s digital library (ADAMS).
“South Carolina Fights U.S. Plan to Abandon Nuclear Project Employing 1,800 – Department of Energy is spending $1.2 million a day on facility designed to dispose of surplus weapons-grade plutonium”
Filed in State of South Carolina v. United States, Docket 1:18-cv-01431 on July 16, 2018:
TEXT ORDER: This matter is before the court pursuant to Defendants’
“The Department of Energy is signaling to South Carolina authorities that its effort to keep the mixed oxide facility alive could be jeopardizing other opportunities — including the proposed pit mission at Savannah River Site,
Rulings by Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals on hearing on DOE’s efforts to halt the MOX debacle – the court is set to hear DOE’s appeal from a lower court on September 25-28,
