SRS Watch News

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,

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,

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.  

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,

In Report Released Today, SRS Watch Calls on State of South Carolina to Oppose UK Plutonium to SRS:

DOE’S SOUTH CAROLINA PLUTONIUM DILEMMA: PLUTONIUM KEEPS SECRETLY COMING IN BUT NO VIABLE PLAN TO TAKE IT OUT

Columbia,

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?

In Quietly Released Environmental Document, DOE Refuses to Analyze Disposal of Canadian Liquid High-Level Nuclear Waste in Canada, Supports Processing and Dumping at Savannah River Site —

Under Guise of Nuclear Non-Proliferation,

CB&I AREVA MOX Services vs DOE/NNSA Smackdown!!!

MOX Contractor Contradicts DOE on Construction Problems at MOX Plant at the Savannah River Site;

Update of this news: Production of plutonium oxide in the HB-Line was terminated after problems faced & MOX project termination (August 15, 2019)

DOE Confirms HB-Line at SRS to Go into 24/7 Production for Plutonium Oxide”Feed Stock”

U.S. Confirms to IAEA that 4.5 Metric Tons of Surplus Plutonium have been Disposed of as Waste

Overlooked in Plutonium Disposition Debate: DOE has already Disposed of Large Amount of Surplus Weapons Plutonium as Waste in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP),

Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) Express Concerns about Return to H-Canyon Operations at SRS — October 23, 2015 weekly report (posted November 24, 2015) and linked here

Is Restart and Operation of the HB-Line –

DOE-SR Agency Update to Savannah River Site Citizens Advisory Board – Stunning Revelation about HB-Line Personnel Failures while Producing Unneeded Plutonium Oxide for Failed MOX Project

4 employees terminated,

SRS Watch releases report on failure of SRS to meet production goals for plutonium oxide for MOX project – November 12, 2015

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New Aerial Photos of $12-Billion Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Plant Construction Site Released by Savannah River Site Watch On Heels of DOE Admission that MOX Plant Construction Faces a 25% “Reinstallation” Rate

SRS Watch Challenges DOE/NNSA/CB&I AREVA MOX Services to Release Photos and Videos Showing Inside of MOX Plant and Document “Reinstallation” Construction Problems

Photos Linked Here Can be Used with Credit “©High Flyer,

SRS Watch news, November 3, 2015 – linked here

German Nuclear Waste Commission Approves Resolution to Ban Export of Spent Fuel, Including AVR Spent Fuel from Juelich to the Savannah River Site

Documents Obtained from via FOIA Request Reveals No Proliferation Risk to German Spent Fuel and that Daunting Risks Face the Import Proposal

SRS Watch: Time to Formally Terminate This Embarrassing,

SRS Watch news – October 27, 2015 – linked here

Failure of MOX Project at the Savannah River Site Legally Mandates DOE to Begin Removal of 1 Metric Ton of Weapons Plutonium from South Carolina by January 1,

*** October 13:  When will the lid be blown off the MOX boondoggle and cover-up of construction problems and inspection irregularities?  Rumors continue about construction problems and “re-work”

At the SRS Citizens Advisory Board meeting on September 22, a few details of the “operational closure” of many SRS site activities were revealed

Information Emerges on MOX-Related Plutonium Incident

The incident that caused the partial site shutdown occurred on September 3 and involved transfer in the HB-Line –

Plutonium Disposition Red Team Report Leaked on August 20:

 The report – linked here – affirms what Savannah River Site Watch has been saying for over two years –

SRS Watch news release –  July 17, 2015

Update of July 24:  After meeting with SRS Watch, various German government officials now have in their hands the US DOE opinion of August 1,

SRS Watch news – July 1, 2015 – linked here

DOE Document Confirms that German Spent Fuel Planned to be Imported to SRS Poses No Nuclear Proliferation Risk in Germany;

Greenpeace Germany news: legal action against dumping of German spent fuel at SRS – US DOE’s headaches over illegal scheme just got worse – the cure is to ditch the dodgy dumping deal

“NUCLEAR WASTE EXPORTS FROM GERMANY  TO THE U.S.

It’s Official: AREVA and CB&I AREVA MOX Services Refuse to Release MOX Program Life-Cycle Cost Estimates – Lack of Response Confirms that they have No Validated Cost Estimates!

Senate Appropriations Language Calls for “Red Team” Review of MOX Project – Too Little, Too Late to Save Beleaguered Debacle

With $345 Million for MOX Construction,

“OINK: TV ad skewers Lindsey Graham’s pork-barrel plutonium MOX boondoggle”

Time to again pull this 2013 Friends of the Earth TV ad against the plutonium fuel (MOX) boondoggle out of the closet.  

Redacted DOE Plutonium Disposition Report Obtained, Gives Details of $47.5 Billion to $110.4 Billion Yet to be Spent on Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Boondoggle, Finished in 2059 to 2115

Aerospace Report Affirms that MOX Project at SRS Not Sustainable at Current Funding Level

“Plutonium Disposition Study Options Independent Assessment”

redacted report linked here:

https://www.srswatch.org/uploads/2/7/5/8/27584045/aerospace_final_redacted_plutonium_disposition_tor_april13_final_release_050815.pdf

news release linked here

photos: MOX plant,

“The Growing U.S. Nuclear Threat”

– released by the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) just before member groups lobby in DC for sane nuclear policies and proper levels of funding for DOE programs,

MOX Boondoggle Update: It Just Keeps Getting Uglier and Uglier for NNSA & CB&I AREVA MOX Services

Aerial photos of MOX plant taken on April 21 released by SRS Watch as news of stunning cost of $47++-billion MOX project leaks out —

SRS Watch news release – April 14, 2015

22 Public Interest Groups Request DOE Prepare a “Nuclear Nonproliferation Assessment” on New Technique being developed at Savannah River Site to Reprocess German Spent Fuel

DOE Ignoring Proliferation Risks Inherent in New Reprocessing Method for Commercial Graphite Spent Fuel?

Savannah River Site Watch
Columbia, South Carolina
April 9, 2015

News on the DOE/NNSA, CB&I AREVA MOX Services MOX Boondoggle

NNSA/DOE,