SRS Watch News

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,

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 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 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 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….

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 –

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”

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. 

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. 

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 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 –

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,

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,

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. 

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) –

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”