The Government Accountability Office (GAO) continues to point out failures by DOE/NNSA in managing construction of the MOX plant at SRS. How long will DOE go on ignoring sound management practices?
SRS Watch News
Germans Oppose Spent Fule Duming at SRS
Political Opposition in Germany to Spent Fuel Dumping at SRS
The Green party in Nordrhein-Westfallen (NRW), Germany has taken the position to formally oppose shipment of German spent fuel off the storage site in Juelich.
DOE Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2016 Spells Doom for MOX
DOE Budget Request: Gloom and Doom for MOX
The DOE’s Fiscal Year 2016 budget request released on Monday, February 2 reveals that MOX plant construction has soared to $12.7 billion and yearly operating cost jumped from an estimated $543 million in the Fiscal Year 2015 to a whopping $671 million/year in the FY 2016 budget request!
SRS Clean-Up Cost Estimates Soars from $23 Billion to Near $100 Billion!
DOE reveals before SRS Citizens Advisory Board that estimated clean-up cost of SRS Cold War waste soars $23 billion to $91 to $109 billion, with site clean-up completion delayed from 2042 to 2065
Presentation to the SRS Citizen Advisory Board by Doug Hintze – January 26,
Public Interest Victories at SRS Abound
Over the Last Forty Year, there Have Been Major Savannah River Site (SRS) Victories on Behalf of the Public and Environment!
See them here.
No Reason to Extend MOX Construction License
Comment of Savannah River Site Watch, at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Public Meeting on MOX Plant Construction Regulation, New Ellenton, SC (adjacent to SRS), January 15, 2015
The meeting included an NRC presentation on why a 10-year license extension,
Depp Problems with MOX Boondoggle Management
SRS Watch news release – January 12, 2015
DOE Management Report Outlines Deep Problems with Management of Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Project and Indicates Cost of the MOX Plant could be Up to $12 Billion
MOX Cost and Schedule Continues to Spin Out of Control as DOE Studies the Problem –
MOX Sucks Down Taxpayer Money, But how Much Will it Take till it Goes Bust?
How much money will the construction of the plutonium fuel (MOX) plant receive for Fiscal Year 2015?
As of December 31, funding in the current fiscal year (October 1,
“Small Modular Reactor” Scheme for SRS Halted; “Enterrprise SRS: Hits the Rocks
SRS Watch news release – January 7, 2015
FOIA Documents Reveal Savannah River Site (SRS) Forced by Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to Halt Promotion of “Small Modular Reactors” (SMRs) with Improperly Diverted Clean-Up Funds
Failure of SRS and Contractors to Secure SMR Funding Doomed “Enterprise SRS” as a “Vision” for Future of SRS
Indications are that the diverted funds in question have not been reimbursued into the SRS clean-up fund.
Disposal of Plutonium as Waste? DOE Supplemental EIS on MOX?
SRS Watch news release – December 17, 2014
Savannah River Site (SRS) Considers Controversial Direct Disposal of Containers of Surplus Weapon-Grade Plutonium in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico
DOE Receives Transport License from NRC for Plutonium Shipping Container;
Where’s Proliferation Assessment on Processing German Spent Fuel at SRS?
U.S. Nuclear Non-Proliferation Policies On the Line: Has DOE Prepared a”Nuclear Non-Proliferation Impact Assessment” for New Spent Fuel Reprocessing Technique being Developed at SRS?
In a letter to SRS Watch dated December 8,
MOX Bleeding to Death…It’s Only a Matter of Time
SRS Watch news release on MOX funding authorized by Congress – MOX Slowly Bleeding to Death, Wasting as Much Money as Possible as it Goes Down – December 3,
Protest in German on Plan to Dump Spent Fule at SRS
Article on German spent fuel dilemma and plans to dump on the Savannah River Site (SRS) – in the November 2014 magazine of the German environmental group
“Robin Wood“:
“Atommüll nach Amerika: Jülicher Castoren sollen zur Wiederaufbereitung in die USA exportiert werden”
German Spent Fuel Dumping at SRS is Illegal
German State Government Analysis: Export of THTR Spent Fuel NOT Legal
On November 12, 2014, the Committee of Science and Education of the German Bundestag (Parliament) will discuss the issue of export of German commercial spent fuel to SRS.
MOX Boondoggle Update, November 5, 2014
MOX Boondoggle Mini-Update – November 5, 2014
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) board of directors is to meet on November 6, 2014 in Nashville, Tennessee. Though there is an agenda item entitled “Report of the Nuclear Oversight Committee,”
Foreign Plutonium Stranded at SRS
Foreign plutonium secretly dumped and stranded at Savannah River Site – Why? In spite of their being no security concerns now that it’s at SRS, DOE/NNSA fumbles the issue and ain’t talking….
Beetles Attack Plutonium Containers at SRS!!!
Plutonium Container Attack Beetles at SRS Call it a Day!
With 13 metric tons of plutonium stored in thousands of 9975 plutonium storage containers (holding 3013 cans –
“The Unlawful Plutonium Alliance – Japan’s Supergrade Plutonium and the Role of the United States”
See it here: 20th anniversary re-release of an important document on illegal reprocessing cooperation between the US and Japan.
“The Unlawful Plutonium Alliance – Japan’s Supergrade Plutonium and the Role of the United States”
Germany Says: No Spent Fuel Dumping on SRS!
Opposition to Scheme to Dump German Spent Fuel on SRS
A lot of articles below are in German, but you can get a sense by looking at them and the photos with the articles that public opposition to dumping German spent fuel at SRS is growing in Germany.
No Dumping of German Spent Fuel on SRS!
A lot of articles below are in German, but you can get a sense by looking at them and the photos with the articles that public opposition to dumping German spent fuel at SRS is growing in Germany.
SRS Runs Far Over Budget with New “Salt Waste Processing Facility” – Same Story as the MOX Debacle
Come Again?! DOE Makes Astounding Claim that it Aims to Complete Major Capital Projects on Budget & Schedule
In a September 17, 2014 email, DOE finally admits a huge “baseline”
SRS Watch Heads to Germany to Help Stop German Spent Fuel Dumping on SRS
SRS Watch to Tour Germany from September 21-26 to Oppose Import to Savannah River Site of Highly Radioactive Spent Nuclear Fuel from Germany; Over 15 German Groups and Politicians Sponsoring the Tour
For Immediate Release –
MOX License Extension Won’t Save Failed MOX Project
Shaw AREVA MOX Services (SHAMS) has requested of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission that construction authorization proceedings for the MOX plant be put into the name of the new corporate entity CB&I AREVA MOX Service,
DOE Memo Destroys Non-Proliferation Claim on Need to Import German Spent Fuel
SRS Watch is headed to Germany to protest the proposed dumping of German commercial spent fuel on the Savannah River Site. Come join us in Jülich on September 21,
We Don’t Want a Plutonium Bomb Plant at SRS!
Why bring up siting a new nuclear bomb plutonium “pit” plant at SRS? Don’t bother as we don’t want it at SRS!
Several years ago, public interest groups beat back an effort by special interests to locate the Modern Pit Facility (MPF) at SRS.
Here in Columbia, South Carolina – aka New Nuclear Ground Zero – we’re overwhelmed with nuclear construction boondoggles, all with dysfunctional project management, massive cost overruns and chronic schedule delays. Starting to see a pattern? Take your pick of photos from the Axis of Boondoggles:
1. Inept SCE&G’s VC Summer nuclear reactor construction project (now terminated – warnings issued at the start of the project in 2008 by Friends of the Earth were repeatedly ignored) –
German Parliamentarian: No German Spent Fuel Dumping on SRS
SRS Watch news – August 15, 2014
Member of German Parliament Calls for Halt to Plans to Export German Spent Fuel to SRS, Supports New Seismically Qualified Storage Facility in Germany;
DOE Shatters Non-Proliferation Norms with Production of Nuke Bomb Material in Commercial Reactor
The Case of Tritium Production for Nuclear Weapons in Commercial Reactors: DOE Violates Nuclear Non-Proliferation Norms and Proves that Nuclear Power = Nuclear Weapons
SRS Watch news –
SRS Watch Pushes DOE Secretary on MOX, German Spent Fuel Dumping
Savannah River Site Watch
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Media Alert
July 28, 2014
Savannah River Site Watch (SRS Watch) Interacts with Secretary of Energy Moniz at “Meet & Greet” – Question about MOX Boondoggle Posed Directly to Moniz and Opposition to German Spent Fuel Import Expressed in Letter to Him
letter to be delivered in person to Secretary Moniz: “Place MOX Construction on Cold Standby;
South Carolina Senator Opposes German Spent Fuel Dumping on SRS
Below is a July 28 news release from Senator Vincent Sheheen on the plan to dump German spent nuclear fuel at the Savannah River Site. Sheheen is in the South Carolina legislature and is running for governor.