SRS Watch News

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; 

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 –

Savannah River Site Watch
www.srswatch.org
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;

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.

Here’s news from a sister organization located near the Sellafield nuclear complex in the UK – Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment (CORE). 

Bundestag reveals truth on German spent fuel

Despite feeble efforts by DOE and certain special interests and a few in Germany to rebrand the AVR reactor as a “research”

Savannah River Site Clean-up Panel in 16-0 Vote Renews Position Against Bringing Commercial Spent Fuel<strong  to the Savannah River Site

SRS Citizens Advisory Board  (SRS CAB) Continues to Stay Focused on SRS Clean-Up While DOE Chases German Nuclear Waste

It’s good to report that the Savannah River Site Citizens Advisory Board (SRS CAB),

Oooopppsss, the Forschungszentrum  Jülich (FZJ) research center in Germany  has driven a nail into the coffin of the proposal to export commercial nuclear reactor spent fuel to the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.

The Savannah River Site (SRS) is not a dump for Germany’s high-level nuclear waste (spent fuel)!

The 310-square mile U.S. Department of Energy site is in the state of South Carolina,

Comments by SRS Watch to the South Carolina Governor’s Nuclear Advisory Council on July 10, 2014 – click here.

At the meeting in Columbia,

Thank you, Representative Fortenberry for introducing some sanity into the discussion about the MOX boondoggle!

Though he withdrew his amendment to House legislation to fund the Department of Energy,

Statement by Ms. Sylvia Kotting-Uhl, Spokesperon on Nuclear Issues in the German Bundestag for the “Bundestagsfraktion BÜNDNIS 90/ DIE GRÜNEN” – July 8,

Senator Graham Continues to Thumb His Nose at Requests for MOX Accountability

Despite requests by SRS Watch  to Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina to obtain and release any MOX plant costs estimates from AREVA,

TV ad takes a well-deserved jab at the MOX debacle – truer now than when it first ran in June 2013 – thanks to Friends of the Earth

Oink: Stop Sen.

As some were sowing confusion at the meeting on June 24 about the AVR reactor and whether it was connected to the electrical grid, SRS Watch has submitted an additional comment for the record of the “environmental assessment”

Meeting on proposal to illegally export German spent commercial fuel to SRS draws public opposition & support from “boosters” who are chasing a big financial payoff from the Germans for the unprecedented import into the US of commercial spent fuel –

U.S. DOE Releases Details of Environmental Meeting on June 24 on Import to Savannah River Site of German High-Level Nuclear Waste and Wrongly Claims there would be a Plan for its “Disposition”

Unprecedented Import of Commercial Spent Fuel,

MOX hoodwinking cracking apart as history of boondoggle slowly revealed

DOE’s failed plutonium fuel (MOX) project: 1999 DOE document reveals a deception of stunning proportions

Don’t be fooled when DOE officials,

MOX Boondoggle Boosters Suffer Blow in U.S. House Armed Services Committee Over “Zombie” MOX Project  —
Defense Authorization Act Amendment Cuts MOX Budget “Plus Up” of $120 Million

Rep.

SRS Watch news of May 6, 2014

Surplus Weapon-Grade Plutonium at Savannah River Site can still be Vitrified in High-level Waste, According to Savannah River National Lab Document Obtained via FOIA Request

DOE Analysis on Plutonium Disposition Incorrect in Stating Not Enough High-Level Waste Remains at Savannah River Site for Immobilization of 34 Metric Tons of Plutonium

Statement on Encouraging Testimony of NNSA Administrator Klotz on Placement of Mismanaged Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Project on Standby,

SRS Watch Book Suggestion: Many families were expelled in the early-1950s from the land to create the Savannah River Plant as the madness of preparing for nuclear war reigned supreme.

News Release on Request of Shaw AREVA MOX Services & AREVA for MOX Life-Cycle Cost Estimate, April 17, 2014 – see letters linked under “library” –