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.
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Combined News Posts June – July 2017
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 –
Combined News Posts April – June 2017
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.
Combined News Posts February – March 2017
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,
Combined News Posts January 2017
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,
Combined News Posts November – December 2016
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 –
Combined News Posts August-October 2016
“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.
Combined News Posts May – July 2016
SRS Watch in:
“Nuclear agency reports ‘apparent’ violations at MOX plant”
Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, July 30, 2016
photos above and to left: MOX boondoggle construction site in F-Area at SRS,
Combined News Posts February – April 2016
“MOX gets mixed grades from Energy Department –
Contractor’s award more than halved”
Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, April 29, 2016 –
News Releases
“Special Nuclear Materials” Shipped from Europe to Charleston, South Carolina in Advance of Nuclear Security Summit
Nuclear Security Summit Alert March 23, 2014 “Special Nuclear Materials” Shipped from Europe to Charleston, South Carolina in Advance of Nuclear Security Summit Was Canadian Plutonium from Belgium and Italy on UK-Flagged Pacific Egret?
DOE Releases 2012 MOX “Report” to Congress, Sits on Details of Sequester Impact to MOX
A Week after the “Sequester” Hits, DOE Remains Mum on MOX Impacts – Keep Waiting to Learn how Your Money is being MisspentIn a move which only heightens public suspicion about the problem-plagued plutonium fuel (MOX) program and the Department of Energy’s (DOE) lack of openness about it,
GAO Confirms Massive $2 Billion Cost Increase for Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Plant at Savannah River Site – NNSA Outed by GAO
NNSA Cover-Up of Massive Cost Increase of MOX Plant Blown by GAO – Ooopppsss!
In a report issued by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) on February 14,