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Report by Los Alamos National lab:  “ARIES Oxide Production Program at LANL,” February 2015, for the Government Accountability Office audit – presentation linked here

Article in Spring 2018 edition of the Congaree Chronicle, South Carolina Sierra Club newsletter

Chronicle linked here  (and here:  https://tinyurl.com/y9esdzd4) see page 18 for article above;

See the April 26th hard copy of The State, Columbia, SC, or the April 27th edition of the Charleston (South Carolina) Post & Courier.

Digital adds, slightly different from the print ad are also being run –

“Fire Detection and Response Time at the Solid Waste Management Facility at the Savannah River Site” – “Staff Issue Report” linked here

“Conclusion. The Board’s staff review team concluded that SWMF cannot adequately protect the assumption of a two-hour fire department response.

“NUCLEAR SHIP SAVANNAH – ISSUANCE OF AMENDMENT 15 TO REVISE
THE LICENSE TO ALLOW DISMANTLEMENT AND DISPOSAL”
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​In an April 23, 2018 letter and safety evaluation, the U.S.

The tanks and the highly radioactive waste in them are the biggest environmental threat at the site.  See:  “TECHNICAL REVIEW OF ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING REPORTS FOR F-AREA [FTF] AND H-AREA TANK FARM [HTF] FACILITIES”

“Critics Warn SC Legislators Against Dominion, Citing Actions in Virginia”
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 Free Times, Columbia, South Carolina weekly, April 18, 2018

article linked here

Friends of the Earth (with SRS Watch staff support) mentioned in article on how Dominion Energy – which wants to take over SCANA/SCE&G – is not such a good actor back home in Virginia:

“Utility trying to buy SCANA draws fire for its influence,

Is operation of the H-Canyon reprocessing plant safe as long as it remains a question if the radiation exhaust tunnel can perform its safety function?

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Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board for February 23,

South Carolina Public Service Commission Spanks South Carolina Electric & Gas and Dominion- Request for “Expedited Hearing” in VC Summer Nuclear Debacle is Denied

On January 31, 2018,

Plutonium “pit” production at SRS, for nuclear weapons?  Is the
Pentagon driving the train to build the plutonium core of US nuclear weapons at SRS ? Article with SRS Watch (based on our news release of December 6,

Westinghouse AP1000 reactor design concerns….. This news is no surprise as SRS Watch has heard over the years from Westinghouse engineers who spoke of management problems and chaos inside the AP1000 design team.  

URGENT!  To members of the public in South Carolina: Your presence needed on Monday, July 31 & Tuesday, August 1 in Columbia, SC at historic meetings when fate of the SCE&G/Santee Cooper nuclear reactor boondoggle will be decided –

We are pleased to see that Senator Ed Markey placed a tribute to Paul Leventhal in the Congressional Record.  Paul, founder of the Nuclear Control Institute, was a leader in development of sound US nuclear non-proliferation policies and one of our enduring inspirations.

South Carolinians Against Monetary Abuse (SCAMA) news,
March 29, 2017 – news release linked hereSCAMA Obtains Records Indicating Liens Filed by Fluor, Company Constructing New Nuclear Reactors in South Carolina and Georgia,

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission reviewing reapproval of nuclear waste shipments route from Canada and the port of Charleston, SC to be dumped at the Savannah River Site

NRC letters of January 25,

Federal Court Case on MOX Failure Continues

State of South Carolina vs DOE: case based on federal on law requiring removal of plutonium from SRS due to MOX program’s collapse and failure –

“Part 21” report for MOX plant gloveboxes – potentially defective component supplied by a vendor to the MOX BOOndoggle

Docket Number 070-03098
CB&I AREVA MOX Services
Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility
Interim Report Notification: Vigor/Oregon Iron Works

“The Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility is evaluating a nonconforming condition associated with electrical penetration holes for PML gloveboxes which were found to be out of tolerance (OOT) as specified in procurement requirements.

SRS Watch in:

“Nuclear agency reports ‘apparent’ violations at MOX plant”

Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, July 30, 2016

article linked here

photos above and to left:  MOX boondoggle construction site in F-Area at SRS,

“MOX gets mixed grades from Energy Department –

Contractor’s award more than halved” 

​Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, April 29, 2016 –