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,
Latest News
Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Questions Ability of SRS Procedures to Allow Safe Operation of Aging H-Canyon Reprocessing Plant in Seismic Event, posted September 17, 2018
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?
SRS Citizens Advisory Board (SRS CAB) to meet in Columbia, South Carolina on September 24-25, 2018
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,
MOX PORK SET TO GET MASSIVE SLICE!
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.
“Savannah River Site F and H Area [High Level Nuclear Waste] Tank Farms – NRC Onsite Observation Visit”
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
WARNING: MOX boondoggle at SRS about to be Slammed by Funding Storm!
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 –
Upcoming Dates on Energy & Nuclear Issues Important to South Carolinians, September 7, 2018
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) –
Important US DOE document on preparation of plutonium oxide at Los Alamos for the “dilute & dispose” method of plutonium disposition (as an alternative to the failed MOX method)
“ARIES Oxide Production Program Dilute and Dispose LCCE Overview,
Material Management and Minimization Program”
Los Alamos National Laboratory / Pit Disassembly and Processing
Los Alamos,
Congressional Appropriators Render Huge Blow to MOX Boondoggle
– 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,
It’s crazy to plan to shuttle plutonium around just to please a court that hasn’t followed the plutonium disposition program – watch for more push-back from Nevada.
“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,
If you want to learn how DOE’s Savannah River Site (Near Aiken, SC) fits into the DOE nuclear weapons complex take a look at this report by the Congressional Research Service, Sept. 6, 2018.
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”
“Sens. Heinrich, Udall ask Perry to suspend order on nuclear oversight” – in order to protect essential roe of Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) at DOE 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 –
$9 billion nuclear reactor debacle of South Carolina Electric & Gas exposed in Sierra Magazine, September/October edition
“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,
DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration’s “REPLY BRIEF FOR APPELLANTS” in matter of federal court proceedings concerning the termination of the MOX boondoggle and removal of plutonium from South Carolina
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.
SRS Watch in article on how the plutonium fuel (MOX) debacle is again being set up for termination by Congress and DOE:
“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 –
Meeting in Columbia, South Carolina on the uranium leak at the Westinghouse fuel plant – August 30, 6:30 p.m.
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,
MOX Debacle Layoffs Likely Coming Starting October 1 – Start of Fiscal Year 2019 – No Matter What Happens
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”
U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Inspection of Bungled MOX Construction Project Reveals Violation with Faulty Welds
– Why is the media avoiding covering this issue?
“MIXED OXIDE FUEL FABRICATION FACILITY- NRC INSPECTION REPORT
NUMBER 70-3098/2018-003,” August 7, 2018 –
HOT NEWS FLASH – August 6, 2018 (Hiroshima Day)
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.
“Hiroshima Remembrance,” August 5, 2-4 p.m., State Museum in Columbia, South Carolina.
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,
“NNSA Must Solve Pit Problems This Year, STRATCOM Commander Says”
Exchange Monitor, August 3, 2018 – article linked here
The Pentago takes on Senator Graham and boosters of the costly MOX debacle…
Article by SRS Watch on the MOX fiasco in the Summer 2018 “South Carolina Sierran,” of the South Carolina Chapter of the Sierra Club
“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,
Posted by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission on July 30, 2018:
SAVANNAH RIVER SITE SALT WASTE DISPOSAL [of high-level waste by-product]
NRC Onsite Observation Visit
July 9-11, 2018
“Annual Radioactive Waste Tank Inspection Program – 2017, July 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).
SRS Watch in article on failed plutonium MOX project, painfully headed towards termination at the Savannah River Site
“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”
Blindly pro-MOX US federal judge in Columbia, SC steps back and passes the issue of the status of the MOX project termination to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, VA, which has already, in response to DOE’s appeal, set a hearing on the matter for September 25-28, 2018
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’
SRS Watch in: “DOE memo: MOX support could jeopardize other Savannah River Site missions”
“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,
The Long, Painful, Costly March to MOX Failure Continues, Poca a Poca Amigos!
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,
Leadership of South Carolina House & Senate file on behalf of the public to join federal court case in which SCE&G is attempting to have two laws on its bungled nuclear project thrown out, July 3, 2018:
Filings by Speaker of the House Jay Lucas, including a proposed order:
– intervention – linked here
“Proposed Answer” by judge to SCE&G – linked here
Filing by Speaker pro tempore Hugh Leatherman –
MOX Doom postponed a bit as workers get breathing room to find new jobs: “Appeals Judge Declines DOE Request to Lift Order Protecting MFFF”
Exchange Monitor, July 2, 2018 – article linked here
“The Department of Energy’s Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MFFF) will enjoy judicial protection from the federal ax for essentially the rest of the government’s 2018 fiscal year after an appeals court on Friday decided not to immediately lift a lower court’s ban on closing the plant.