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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,
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 –
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.
These two documents, posted by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission on June 25, 2018, discuss predictions related to amount of iodine-129 and technetium- 99 in the solidified waste to be left forever in the ground at SRS.
As some peddle the fake news that European countries are vigorously pursuing reprocessing of highly radioactive spent fuel – to remove weapon-usable plutonium – this report from the heart of the French reprocessing industry sets the record straight.
– Phillip Thompson was sentenced this afternoon in federal court to 23 months in Butner prison medical facility in North Carolina, followed by 3 years probation. Home detention denied but sentenced reduced due to health issue.
1:18-cv-01431-JMC Date Filed 06/25/18 Entry Number 29 Page 1 of 28 – motion linked here
Also posted in docket on June 25, 2018: “MOTION for Summary Judgment by State of South Carolina.
Senate news release of June 25 linked here:
Senate Energy & Water report, page 107: “MOX Construction.—The Committee recommends $220,000,000 for closeout costs associated with the termination of MOX Fuel Fabrication Facility construction,
“NOTICE OF CANCELLATION OF HEARING: Sentencing set for 6/25/2018 02:30 PM as to Aaron Vennefron (mbro, ) (Entered: 06/22/2018)”
”NOTICE OF RESCHEDULED HEARING as to Phillip Thompson Sentencing set for 6/20/2018 10:00 AM cancelled and rescheduled to: Sentencing set for 6/25/2018 01:30 PM in Columbia # 3,
Once she denies the stay the matter will likely be ripe to be addressed by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond, Virginia.
DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration requested the “stay”
EXECUTIVE OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT
OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20503
June 20, 2018 (Senate)
STATEMENT OF ADMINISTRATION POLICY
Senate Amendment to H.R.
The MOX fiasco rightfully remains on a termination track and pursuit of employment at the mismanaged project is ill advised and not a positive on one’s resume. Plus, we’re not sure these are real jobs or just being posted –
See notices below in Docket 1:15-cr-00888-JMC – sentencing set for June 25, 2018 in federal court in Columbia, SC
After a decade of potential fraud,
TV report on DOE’s filing of an appeal to the federal judge’s June 7 “preliminary injunction” stopping MOX termination for now – with SRS Watch. Why are no politicians speaking up for MOX workers?
See June 26, 2018 “ORDER AND OPINION” – “CONCLUSION
For the reasons discussed above, the court DENIES Defendants’ Motion for Stay of the Preliminary Injunction Pending Appeal (ECF No.
DNFSB weekly report, June 15, 2018, linked here
“H-Tank Farms: SRR has been conducting heel removal in Tank 15. Tank 15 is an old-style tank that had 26 previously identified leak sites.
