SRS Watch News

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,

Savannah River Site Watch (SRS Watch) Obtains Tax-Exempt Status, Group No Longer a Project of Fairewinds Energy Education but Will Work in Parallel >on Nuclear Challenges

SRS Watch to Keep Focus on Plutonium and High-Level Wasteat U.S.

DOE Admission: Foreign Clients Do Not Pay Full Cost of Processing their Nuclear Waste in H-Canyon at SRS

At today’s House Energy & Water Development Subcommittee hearing on the DOE’s budget,

On February 23, the NRC released feeble reasoning to extend MOX plant construction license from 2015 to 2015 – “good cause” means bad process

We think we smell a rat down the MOX hole…

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? 

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: 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! 

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,

Over the Last Forty Year, there Have Been Major Savannah River Site (SRS) Victories on Behalf of the Public and Environment!

See them here.

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,

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 –

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,

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. 

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;

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,