SRS Watch News

August 31, 2016: Why are the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission and CB&I AREVA MOX Services dragging their feet in resolving the issue of potentially faulty welds in six plutonium-handling gloveboxes supplied to the bungled MOX project at the Savannah River Site?

Savannah River Site is honored to have director Tom Clements participate in activities from August 3-9, 2016 in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan on the 71st anniversary of the bombings.  

CB&I AREVA MOX Services Issued Two Violations by U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission for Improper Documentation for Safety-Related Components to Support Floor Panels in MOX Plant;

NRC’s Office of Investigations Reviews Allegation of False Welding Documentation,

SRS Citizens Advisory Board (SRS CAB) Rejects DOE Plan to Import German High-Level Nuclear Waste, Vote Not Binding but Reflects Public Opposition to Waste Import from Juelich and Ahaus

news release linked here

SRS CAB position statement of July 26,

Savannah River Downblending Program for Surplus, Non-Pit Plutonium”  (vs MOX  debacle)

— from the presentation:

•DOWNBLENDING PROJECT JUSTIFICATION
•Downblending Pu oxide reduces safeguards attractiveness level
•Pu oxide downblending previously demonstrated at SRS,

Tom Clements, director of SRS Watch, will be participating in panel discussions from August 2-10, 2016 in Tokyo, Hiroshima and Nagaski, Japan about plutonium proliferation and the failure of the US plutonium fuel (MOX) project.

SRS Watch Alert: More nuclear waste coming in to the Savannah River Site with no exit strategy? Why consider U.S. Navy reactor disposal at SRS given the wet climate and permeable soils and that SRS is a clean-up site?

As SRS/DOE/Centerra leaked the “news” about supposed drones over SRS and unknown SRS security personnel inexplicably involved SRS Watch in the matter – though we know absolutely nothing about it –

Court Filings of June 21, 2016 by DOE also State No International Plutonium Shipments to SRS for the Next Two Years

SRS Watch news release linked here

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SRS Watch statement on plutonium arrival at SRS – linked here

As we have suspected for the last few days, SRS Watch can confirm that the ships carrying 331 kgs of plutonium from Japan have arrived.

Who me?!  The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has clarified that it does not regulate drug testing or drug use at the MOX plant at the Savannah River Site.

In response to a May 2,

Faked tests or faked testing? Or not?  Use of synthetic urine or not?  Attention CB&I AREVA MOX Services and NNSA: for the sake of worker and public safety, please publicly explain and defend your drug testing program at the MOX site.

SRS Watch Obtains MOX Fiscal Year 2015 Award Fee Documents for CB&I AREVA MOX Services via FOIA request, Publicly Releases them as DOE’s NNSA and CB&I AREVA MOX Services Fail to Do So

MOX Services Rated “Satisfactory” for Bonus Fee Award for FY 2015

NNSA Determines “Overall performance below the level needed for successful project execution” and Drug Testing Inadequate!!!!

“Trillion Dollar Trainwreck: Out-of-control U.S. nuclear weapons programs accelerate spending, proliferation, health and safety risks” — Report on the US DOE’s Fiscal Year 2017 budget request to Congress, by the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability,

National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) releases signed “Record of Decision” (ROD) on disposing of 6 metric tons of plutonium located at SRS in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP),

The DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) delivered its 2015 report to Congress on April 1, 2016 and affirmed termination of the MOX boondoggle.

NNSA report Prevent,

New Aerial Photos Released of Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Plant Under Construction at U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina

To view all photos,

Pre-Nuclear Security Summit Briefing on Plutonium Disposition and “Alternatives to MOX” at US DOE’s Savannah River Site (SRS), Augusta, Georgia (near SRS), 10:30 a.m., March 29, 2016, at SRS Citizens Advisory Board meeting

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Pacific Egret docks in Tokai-Mura, Japan to pick up 331 kgs of plutonium; Egret departed at about 3 p.m. Japan time on March 22, 2016, bound for SRS,

Exclusive Photos of Not-So-Secret Plutonium Operation in Japan!  

Mission has been badly bungled, backfires

“Nuclear Security Summit Effect” — Stimulating Plutonium Shipment from Japan to US 
 
Slideshow is of PNTL’s UK-flagged Pacific Egret arriving and docking in the port of Tokaimura on March 21,

Obama & the “Nuclear Security Summit Effect”: Nuclear Shipments to the Savannah River Site and Non-Proliferation Theatrics?

This week in Washington, the SRS Watch director, Tom Clements,

NNSA Cracks, Finally Admits Plutonium Import from Switzerland to US (SRS)….Like We’ve Been Saying for Weeks

National Nuclear Security Administration
U.S Department of Energy
For Immediate Release –

NNSA Gobsmacked Over Losing Control of Plutonium-Shipment News – Allegiance to Nuclear Security Summit PR Rather than Transparency with the Public Catches Officials Flat Footed – Plutonium-Shipment Cat Jumps Out of the DOE Nuclear Bag as NNSA Maintains a Bumbling Silence

Swiss Government Forced to Admit Shipment of 20 Kilograms (44 Pounds) of Plutonium to the United States – to US DOE’s Savannah River Site,

February 29 (Leap Year) Update:  The Oceanic Pintail is expected back in its home port of Barrow on the Monday afternoon, February 29, high tide. US DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration maintains its unjustified and stunned silence about the shipment to SRS of German and Swiss plutonium on board the Pintail.

ATTENTION International Non-Proliferation and Environmental Community:  The count-down on the arrival of the UK-flagged Pacific Egret and Pacific Heron to pick up 331 kilograms of plutonium at Tokai, Japan has begun.

“Activist group praises ORNL’s reactor report”

– in Frank Munger’s Atomic City Underground blog (Knoxville, Tennessee), February 26, 2016 – linked here

SRS Watch alert,

Ship Arrives in Charleston, South Carolina with Nuclear Cargo Destined to be Stranded at the Savannah River Site; Cargo of Plutonium from Germany (Karlsruhe) and Switzerland (Paul Scherrer Institut) in Advance of Nuclear Security Summit (Washington,

MOX gets MASHED!  DOE, After All the Painful Years of the MOX Mess Dragging On & On, Says MOX Boondoggle is to be Terminated

DOE Budget Calls for Termination of for Mismanaged Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Project at DOE’s Savannah River Site;

SRS Watch news, February 6, 2016

news release linked here

UK-Flagged Ships Set to Transport Plutonium from Japan to US Located in Panama Canal!
 

Transport Ships Involved in Controversial Plutonium Shipment from Japan to US DOE’s Savannah River Site (SRS) Depart Port in Great Britain, Transport Completion Doubtful before Nuclear Security Summit in March

Bulk of 331 Kilograms of Plutonium is of UK Origin and Must Not be Dumped at SRS –