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FBI agent who raided Rocky Flats Plant to speak
Albuquerque (New Mexico) Journal, November 17, 2019
SANTA FE, N.M. — Jon Lipsky is a retired federal agent with a big notch in his gun – he shut down a plant that made plutonium parts for the nation’s nuclear weapons.
“Occurrence Report” for radioactive contamination in a “clean area” of the SRS high-level waste vitrification plant (Defense Waste Process Facility)
On October 22, 2019,
“League of Women Voters S.C. opposes pit production at Savannah River Site”
“The League of Women Voters of South Carolina opposes the production of nuclear weapon cores,
Here are links to print articles, TV coverage and livestream of the Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) news conference and forum that were held on Tuesday, November 12, 2019 –
“Watchdogs to warn of SRS pit production risks during public forum”
Aiken, SC paper, Nov. 11, 2019
Surplus Plutonium Disposition: NNSA’s Long-Term Plutonium Oxide Production Plans Are Uncertain
GAO-20-166: Published: Oct 23, 2019. Publicly Released: Oct 23, 2019.
The National Nuclear Security Administration manages 57.2 metric tons of surplus plutonium.
“Citizen Groups File Motion to Enforce Court Order Vacating NNSA Decision on Uranium Processing Facility Construction”
If DOE/NNSA continues to move toward the unauthorized Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at SRS without following the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA),
SRS Watch director in “Nuclear workers hospitalized; Columbia plant runs afoul of safety rules – again”
The State, Columbia, South Carolina, October 23, 2019- on line &
Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Radioactive Waste Inventory Report, prepared for DOE, September 2019
83,500 MT of commercial spent fuel & 2300 MT of DOE spent fuel
“This report provides information on the inventory of commercial spent fuel (SNF) and high-level
radioactive waste (HLW) in the United States,
“The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board will hold a public meeting to provide an opportunity for the Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration to brief the Board on their basis for rejecting Recommendation 2019-2 and the actions completed,
“Perry Tells Trump He Will Resign as Energy Secretary –
Rick Perry, the former governor of Texas who has become enmeshed in the Ukraine scandal, said he would resign as secretary of energy.”
A giant has fallen. Martin Forwood was a highly respected campaigner and friend of SRS Watch and will be sorely missed. His tireless work gainst spent fuel reprocessing at the THORP facility Sellafield in the UK resulted in ultimate victory.
Good for the State of Nevada. There is no need to be shipping plutonium from SRS to other sites with no final destination and absent disposition plans.
“Nevada seeks to restart lawsuit over US plutonium shipment”
It’s about time that somebody pushed SRS on exploring dry cask storage of spent fuel (vs reprocessing in the aged H-Canyon). They have been dragging their feet on that for many,
“SAVANNAH RIVER SITE SALT WASTE DISPOSAL NRC Onsite Observation Visit, September 17, 2019”
https://adamswebsearch2.nrc.gov/webSearch2/main.jsp?AccessionNumber=ML19281C983
“FIELD OBSERVATION PHOTOS FROM SAVANNAH RIVER SITE SALT WASTE DISPOSAL –
Drill at SRS facilities processing tritium – radioactive gas used to boost the explosive power of nuclear weapons – runs into snags
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB),
As Congress discusses defense authorization & spending for Fiscal Year 2020, good to see this opinion column against unjustified plutonium “pit” production at SRS (in a proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant –
Looks like South Carolina Attorney Wilson has failed in his last-gasp attempt to get a hearing about termination of the MOX boondoggle onto the docket of the US Supreme Court.
The South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation (LLR) has declined to open a formal disciplinary hearing against Westinghouse concerning information that design of the AP1000 reactors at the VC Summer site were not stamped by board-certified engineers.
SRS Watch in “Coverup charged at MOX plant”
Lexington County (South Carolina) Chronicle, Wed, 10/02/2019, by Jerry Bellune, jerrybellune@yahoo.com
Washington is covering up a failed $51 billion plutonium fuel project 40 minutes from Lexington County.
On its 20th anniversary – Recalling Japan’s worst nuclear accident before the Fukushima nuclear reactor meltdowns on March 11, 2011
“TOKAI MURA CRITICALITY ACCIDENT”
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SRS Watch, which fought long and hard for taxpayers against the MOX boondoggle, is mentioned in this article:
“Politics, poor planning leave lethal legacy —
More Canadian nuclear waste to SRS
“Defuelling completed at Canadian research reactor”
World Nuclear News, 27 September 2019
“Ahead of its decommissioning,
Intervention before the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the matter of an export license application by the National Nuclear Security Administration to export bomb-grade uranium (highly enriched uranium, HEU) to Europe for medical isotope production.
“COURT VACATES LEGAL AUTHORITY FOR NUCLEAR BOMB PLANT CONSTRUCTION IN OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE”
Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance (OREPA), with Nuclear Watch New Mexico and Natural Resources Defense Council NRDC)
For Immediate release,
“Intelligence Community Whistleblower Protections”
Congressional Research Service, September 23, 2019 – linked here: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/intel/R45345.pdf
“Whistleblowing can be defined as “the act of reporting waste,
“Remembering Peter Stockton”
A friend of SRS Watch and a warrior for good government and against waste of taxpayer money will be missed.
“Advocates threaten suit over labs’ pit-making plans”
Albuquerque (New Mexico) Journal, September 18, 2019
“SANTA FE — Lawyers for three advocacy groups, including one in New
Mexico,
The House Continuing Resolution to fund the government into Fiscal Year 2020 (starts October 1, 2019) until November 21, 2019 has been posted by the House Rules Committee.
The fate of the proposed, unjutified Plutonium Bomb Plant (PPB) at SRS now is the hands of the Armed Services’ conference committee. We don’t know much about Republican members of that committee but big-government big-spender Rep.
