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?
SRS Watch News
“Drones Over SRS or Not?” Update – July 2, 2016
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 –
DOE Reveals Moratorium since 2014 on Domestic Defense Plutonium Shipments to Savannah River Site (SRS) – in Documents Filed in Federal Case on Plutonium Removal from South Carolina
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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Plutonium Proliferation Alert! Plutonium from Japan to SRS
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.
Drugs and Plutonium MOX Don’t Mix or Does the NNSA and CBI AREVA MOX Services Think They Do….?
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,
MOX Project Drug-Use Cover-up? Or Not?
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.
MOX Construction Performance Unsatisfactory
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”
“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,
DOE to Dispose of 6 metric Tons of SRS Plutonium as Waste
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),
NNSA Informs Congress of MOX Debacle Termination, April 1, 2016
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,
A Peek Behind the Unjustified Veil of Secrecy: New MOX Photos
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,
“Alternatives to MOX” – presentation by Dr. Frank von Hippel & Dr. Edwin Lyman
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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Plutonium Shipment from Japan to SRS Gets Under Way
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,
Plutonium Shipment from Japan to 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,
Nuclear Shipments to the Savannah River Site – Non-Proliferation Theatrics?
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,
Like We Told You: DOE Admits Plutonium Shipment from Switzerland to SRS
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 –
Shhhh…..Plutonium from Swizterland to SRS
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,
Plutonium Ghost Ship Due Home in UK!
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.
Plutonium Ships on the Move, from UK to Japan
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”
“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,
European Plutonium Arrives at SRS – Stranded!
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,
DOE Asks Congress to Terminate MOX Boondoggle
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;
Plutonium Ships Spotted in Panama Canal, bound for Japan and then Charleston, SC
SRS Watch news, February 6, 2016
UK-Flagged Ships Set to Transport Plutonium from Japan to US Located in Panama Canal!
Plutonium Ships Depart Barrow-in-Furness, England, Bound for Japan and then SRS
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 –
Dumping for Profit: Plan to Ship German Spent Fuel to SRS
Statement by Tom Clements, Director, Savannah River Site Watch on DOE’s DRAFT ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT FOR THE ACCEPTANCE AND DISPOSITION OF SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL CONTAINING U.S.-ORIGIN HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM FROM THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY,
Photos of Plutonium Transport Ships; Document on Pu Import Released
More photos just released of possible ships to be used to transport plutonium from Japan to Charleston, South Carolina and on to SRS, where there is no viable disposal path for the material
Photos of Pacific Egret,
900 Kilograms of Foreign Plutonium to SRS – SRS Watch Releases Document
BREAKING NEWS: US DOE rammed through a decision to bring the 900 kg of “gap” plutonium to SRS, including 236 kg of UK-origin plutonium at the FCA in Japan.
DOE to Dispose of 6 Metric Tons of Plutonium at SRS as Waste, Decision Damages MOX Option
SRS Watch news release, December 23, 2015 — Federal Register notice of December 24, 2015 linked here
DOE Deals Blow to Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Program at Savannah River Site (SRS) by Choosing to Dispose of 6 Metric Tons of Plutonium at SRS as Waste,
SRS Watch Releases “DOE Plutonium Dilemma” Report
In Report Released Today, SRS Watch Calls on State of South Carolina to Oppose UK Plutonium to SRS:
Columbia,
More Foreign Nuclear Material to SRS
Secret Plans Underway to Bring Spent Research Reactor Stored in the United Kingdom to the Savannah River Site – Material from the Republic of Georgia Should Stay in the UK
Proposal On Top of Plans to Bring Foreign Plutonium to SRS as Nuclear Security Summit Approaches
Is SRS Becoming an International Nuclear Waste Site Under Thin Veil of Nuclear Non-Proliferation?