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),
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Opinion Against Unjustified “Plutonium Bomb Plant” at SRS: “Expanding nuclear weapon production is reckless”
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 –
No MOX Case before US Supreme Court – Last Gasp of the Debacle?
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.
SC Dept of Labor, Licensing and Regulation Takes a Dodge, Declines to Hold Disciplinary Hearing Against Westinghouse re VC Summer AP1000 Reactor Design Certification
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.
“Coverup charged at MOX plant” – Who is blocking investigations into fraud, waste, abuse and mismanagement? Senator Lindsey Graham and Rep. Joe Wilcon?
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.
Tokai JCO Uranium Facility: 20th Anniversary of Japan’s Worst Nuclear Accident until Fukushima
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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“How the US Wasted $8 Billion on the MOX Boondoggle” (which SRS Watch Tried to Stop for Decades)
SRS Watch, which fought long and hard for taxpayers against the MOX boondoggle, is mentioned in this article:
“Politics, poor planning leave lethal legacy —
There they go again: More Canadian Spent Fuel Dumped on SRS
More Canadian nuclear waste to SRS
“Defuelling completed at Canadian research reactor”
World Nuclear News, 27 September 2019
“Ahead of its decommissioning,
Opposition to NNSA Request for HEU Export to Europe
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.
WOW!: Environmental Victory on Y-12 Bomb Plant Case Holds Implications for DOE’s Push for Unjustified Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at SRS
“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” – by Congressional Research Service
“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,
Warrior Against Government Waste Inspired Us to Fight Against MOX, Wasteful DOE Projects
“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…pit-making plans” at SRS, Los Alamos
“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,
House Continuing Resolution for DOE, Government Funding into Fiscal Year 2020 Released
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.
Armed Services’ “Conference Committee” to Decide on Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP), Defense Issues
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.
Pressure from Senate on Proposed “Plutonium Bomb Plant” (PBP) at SRS
US senators wrote on Sept. 13, 2019 to House & Senate Armed Services leaders, against unjustified “Plutonium Bomb Plant” at SRS, for provocative, new W87-1 nuclear warhead.
Under the misguided proposal from DOE,
Senate Appropriations Committee Votes on DOE Funding, September 12, 2019
The Senate Appropriations Committee zeros out Yucca Mountain funding, cuts the Virtual Test Reactor (VTR) & keeps the plutonium sustainment slush fund for going – for “pits” for nuclear weapons.
“How to Starve Trump’s Lust for Nukes” (including the Plutonium Bomb Plant at SRS)
This opinion piece underscores the importance of the House-Senate “conference committee” on the defense bill (National Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2020), where the fate of the unjustified Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at Savannah River Site will be decided.
Congress to Decide on Defense Bill, Unjustified “Plutonium Bomb Plant” at SRS
The fate of the unjustified “Plutonium Bomb Plant” (PBP) at DOE’s Savannah River Site is on the table this week when the defense bill – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 –
U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee to Act on DOE Budget, September 12, 2019
Senate Appropriations to “mark up” legislation on DOE spending – will they act responsibly for our national security or will they support dangerous projects like the proposed “Plutonium Bomb Plant”
Japan’s plutonium stockpile remain proliferation threat
Japan reports domestically and to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) that it continues to stockpile a large amount of weapon-usable plutonium. Japan should make an official announcement that its bungled plan to reprocess spent nuclear reactor fuel in the problem-plagued Rokkasho facility,
Time to Hit the Brakes on the Unjustified Plutonium Pit Project at SRS
“Guest Column: New plutonium mission at SRS is the pits”
Succumbing to organizational flaws, the U.S. Department of Energy is rushing into a controversial and complex project at the Savannah River Site for which costs and need have not been established.
DOE Documents on Plutonium, HEU Packaging and Shipment
1. FISSILE MATERIAL MINIMIZATION THROUGH PACKAGING AND REMOVAL OF PLUTONIUM FUEL MATERIALS
https://sti.srs.gov/fulltext/SRNL-STI-2019-00316.pdf
While there may need to be some removal of plutonium and highly enriched uranium in situations where the material is at risk of theft,
“Plutonium Bomb Plant” at SRS Designed to Fuel Nuclear Arms Race with Russia
TOTAL MADNESS!: The proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at SRS is part of the formula for a new US-Russia nuclear arms race.
“Russian Nuclear Blast Theories Hint at No-Holds-Barred Arms Race”
Plutonium Bomb Plant at SRS? “Plutonium & People Don’t Mix: Rocky Flats: Colorado’s Defunct Nuclear Bomb Factory”
We encourage you to read about the ongoing plutonium nightmare caused by DOE’s plutonium pit production at the Rocky Flats site near Denver, Colorado. This might cause you to think twice about the proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at SRS.
Nevada says: “The Department of Energy is trying to turn the Silver State into the Radioactive State.”
— State of Nevada files with 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on March 11, 2019 to stop more plutonium shipments from SRS to Nevada and require removal of 1/2 tonne already shipped to the Nevada National Security Site
Filing of March 11,
SRS Watch in: “Lethal legacy – Why SC is likely stuck with a stockpile of the nation’s most dangerous nuclear materials”
Charleston (South Carolina) Post & Courier, July 7, 2019, front page print edition
Articles on US DOE’s “scoping” meeting on preparation of an EIS on the proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at SRS.
Things are getting off to a very shaky start on this process as DOE is rushing things without presenting justification for the questionable plutonium “pit” project – DOE’s typical recipe for failure with such complex,
“NNSA collects comments on plutonium pit proposal at SRS”
Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, June 27, 2019
“Opinions of SRS plutonium pit production clash at North Augusta public forum”
Aiken (South Carolina) Standard, June 27, 2019
June 27, 2019