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Lawsuit Filed by Public Interest Groups Against Biden Administration Over Nuclear Bomb Core Production Plans at SRS, Los Alamos

SRSW · June 29, 2021 ·

Lawsuit Filed Against Biden Administration Over Nuclear Bomb Core Production Plans

Federal agencies’ refusal to review cross-country expansion of plutonium pit production violates the National Environmental Policy Act and the Administrative Procedures Act,

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

Advocacy Groups to Announce Legal Action on DOE’s Plans for Plutonium Bomb Plants at SRS, Los Alamos – June 29

SRSW · June 25, 2021 ·

Advocacy Groups to Announce Legal Action on DOE’s Plans for Plutonium Bomb Plants at Savannah River Site and Los Alamos National Lab – to Make Plutonium “Pits” (Cores) for New Nuclear Weapons,

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

DOE Admits in Fiscal Year 2022 Budget Request that Cost of SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant Soars to $11.1 Billion, but Annual Funding Levels Not Enough for Project Viability

SRSW · May 29, 2021 ·

Department of Energy Budget Roll-Out Bungled, Request for Fiscal Year 2022 Reveals Savannah River Site Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) Cost Soars to Staggering $11.1 Billion; SRS Plutonium Pit Project Requests $603 Million in FY22,

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

Alliance for Nuclear Accountability/SRS Watch: What to Look for in Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Waste in Fiscal Year 2022 DOE Budget on May 28, 2021

SRSW · May 26, 2021 ·

WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY’S FY 2022 NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND CLEANUP BUDGET REQUEST of Friday, May 28, 2021 – Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (of which Savannah River Site Watch is a proud member)

The White House is releasing its detailed Fiscal Year 2022 budget on Friday,

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

Cost Estimate for SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant to Soar to $10+ Billion? Causing Trouble for Contractors and Boosters Pushing New Pit Plant and “Money Pit” ICBM “Needing” New Plutonium Pits?

SRSW · May 10, 2021 ·

Stay tuned for the release by the US DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration of a “Critical Decsion-1” determination on the proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant. CD-1 would approve the basic project design and present an update cost range.

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

Groups, Including SRS Watch, Notify Biden Admin of Impending Lawsuit Over Nuclear Bomb Core Plans, with First “Pits” for Provocative, Costly Ground Based Strategic Deterrent

SRSW · April 21, 2021 ·

Groups Notify Biden Admin of Impending Lawsuit Over Nuclear Bomb Core Plans

Multi-state coalition says DOE’s plans to massively expand plutonium pit production violate a major environmental law and constitutes an environmental injustice.

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

NRC Seeks to Dodge Environmental Law in its Review of “Centrus High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium Demonstration Project,” Groups Request Programmatic EIS

SRSW · April 2, 2021 ·

“HALEU IN PORTSMOUTH, Ohio?  Nuclear weapons and other grave risks”

Alert from Beyond Nuclear: “The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is poised to forego a more comprehensive National Environmental Policy Act review of American Centrifuge Plant/Centrus’s scheme to generate High Assay Low Enriched Uranium in Portsmouth,

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

SRS Watch to NRC: Release Secret Draft EA on High-Assay LEU Production at Piketon, for Public Comment

SRSW · March 9, 2021 ·

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is quietly moving toward licensing a Centrus facility in Piketon, Ohio to produce “high-assay low- enriched uranium” (HALEU). Why the secrecy?

HALEU is 5% to 20% enriched in uranium-235,

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

Proud Opposition to Dumping Rocky Flat Plutonium Pit Production on SRS Reaches 30th Anniversary

SRSW · February 17, 2021 ·

 

DON’T DUMP ROCK FLATS ON SOUTH CAROLINA!

Public efforts to stop plutonium pit production at SRS have now reached 30 years old.

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

Biden Administration Asked by Public Interest Groups to Review Plutonium Pit Expansion Plans for Nuclear Warheads

SRSW · February 12, 2021 ·

Biden Administration Asked to Review Plutonium Pit Expansion Plans

News release, February 12, 2021 – by South Carolina Environmental Law Project (SCELP), SRS Watch, Nuclear Watch New Mexico &

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

SRS Watch Comments on Plutonium-Fueled “Versatile Test Reactor” – Halt EIS process for Unjustified Sodium-Cooled Reactor

SRSW · February 12, 2021 ·

SRS Watch has submitted comments in response to the DOE Office of Nuclear Energy’s draft Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed and unjustified  “Versatile Test Reactor” (VTR) which is facing big funding challenges in Congress. 

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

SRS Watch to DOE: Full Environmental Review Needed of All Plutonium Planned for WIPP Repository in New Mexico; Programmatic EIS (PEIS) needed for plutonium waste from pit production, plutonium disposition and fuel fabrication for Versatile Test Reactor

SRSW · January 29, 2021 ·

Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) Needed on Plutonium Disposition and All Plutonium Waste Streams Designated for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) – including from Plutonium Disposition,

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

Test of Biden Administration has Begun – SRS Watch Sends in FOIA Request on January 20, 2021

SRSW · January 20, 2021 ·

SRS Watch accepts the new challenge to act patriotically and for the good of the nation. Will the new administration respond in kind? We have just mailed our first Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request of the Biden administration,

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

Campaign to Dump Canadian Liquid High-Level Nuclear Waste on SRS Concludes, but More Waste Coming?

SRSW · January 19, 2021 ·

The United States and Canada have concluded a multi-year campaign to dump liquid high-level nuclear waste on the Savannah River Site. But indications are that more dumping from Canada is being considered.

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

Issues and Challenges Facing SRS in 2021 – Citizen Engagement with DOE will be Crucial, as it has been in the Past

SRSW · January 14, 2021 ·

Challenges Facing Host of Savannah River Site Projects in 2021; SRS Must Strive to Better Serve Public

Proposed and Unjustified SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP),

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

Draft EIS Reveals New DOE Reactor Would Bring 30 Metric Tons of Plutonium to SRS for Fuel Fabrication – VTR Must be Rejected

SRSW · December 21, 2020 ·

DOE Announces Release of Draft EIS on Versatile Test Reactor (VTR); Lacking Justification and Due to Proliferation Risks, VTR Project Must Not Go Forward – SRS Watch news,

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

Chairman of House Armed Services Committee Casts Doubt on SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant, Calls MOX “Close to White Collar Crime”

SRSW · December 14, 2020 ·

Chairman of House Armed Services Committee Reveals Great Skepticism in NNSA’s Ability to Covert SRS MOX Facility to Plutonium Pit Production, Refers to $6 Billion Project as Potential “Rat Hole”

Representative Adam Smith Asserts that Failed Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Project at SRS is “Pretty Close to White Collar Crime”

The powerful chairman of the House Armed Services Committee,

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

Photos of Three Failed Nuclear Construction Projects in GA, SC Released: MOX (Proposed for Plutonium Bomb Plant), Vogtle & VC Summer Reactor Construction

SRSW · November 30, 2020 ·

New Aerial Photos Released of the Trio of Failed Nuclear Projects in South Carolina & Georgia: Plutonium Fuel/MOX (Proposed to be Converted into a Plutonium Bomb Plant) and the Vogtle &

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

New Aerial Photos, by “High Flyer,” Released of V.C. Summer Nuclear Reactor Construction Debacle on Heels of Fraud Agreement by Former SCANA CEO

SRSW · November 25, 2020 ·

New Aerial Photos of VC Summer Nuclear Construction Site Obtained Day After Former SCANA CEO Agrees to Plead Guilty to Fraud for His Role in Failed Nuclear Reactor Construction Project;

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

An initial take: Two dodgy characters close to the Biden transition merit in-depth investigation

SRSW · November 19, 2020 ·

An initial take: Two dodgy characters close to the Biden transition merit in-depth investigation

Check out this quick comment about Mignon Clyburn and Ernest Moniz –

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

Strontium Waste Arriving in Port of Charleston, SC, to be Trucked Cross Country for Dumping by DOE in Area 5 at Nevada National Security Site

SRSW · November 17, 2020 ·

Ship Carrying Radioactive Waste (Stronium-90) from France to Arrives in Charleston, SC 

Three U.S.-Supplied Strontium-Bearing Electricity Generators to be Trucked to Nevada to by Dumped in Ground-Level Trench in Area 5 at the Nevada National Security Site;

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

SRS Again Fails to Accurately Inform Public about Status of Startup of Key High-Level Waste Facility (SWPF)

SRSW · November 16, 2020 ·

Safety Board Notes “Hard Shutdown” of the Key Cesium-Removal Step during Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) Startup; For Second Time, DOE Failed to Publicly Reveal Operational Problems with SWPF,

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

Stronium-90 Headed from France to US on Pacific Heron, via Port of Charleston, SC to Disposal in Nevada

SRSW · November 11, 2020 ·

Ship Carrying Radioactive Waste (Stronium-90) from France to Arrive in Charleston, SC around Nov. 16; Three U.S.-Supplied Strontium-Bearing Electricity Generators to be Trucked to Nevada to DOE Nuclear Waste Dump;

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

SRS has been Irresponsibly Silent on High-Level Waste Facility “Hot Commissioning” but Problems Confirmed by DOE Oversight Board (DNFSB) and Not DOE

SRSW · November 9, 2020 ·

Safety Board Confirms Rumors about Problems with Start Up of Salt Waste Processing Facility at Savannah River Site; DOE-SRS has Refused to Provide an Update on Status of the Facility until after the SRS Watch News Release – Why?

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

DOE’s Formal Decision to Pursue Plutonium Bomb Plant at SRS Draws Immediate Criticism, Faces Potential Legal Challenge

SRSW · November 5, 2020 ·

Savannah River Site Watch, Nuclear Watch New Mexico (Santa Fe, NM) and Tri-Valley CAREs (Livermore, California) news, November 5, 2020:  DOE Issues Controversial Decision to Pursue a Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at Savannah River Site (SRS);

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

Secretary of Energy Brouillette Thumbs Nose at Concerns Over Plutonium and Nuclear Waste Management at SRS – Why? Too Busy Traveling and Endlessly Putting Out News Releases?

SRSW · October 28, 2020 ·

The focus these days of Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette seems to be putting out as many news releases as possible about his travels and money that DOE is doling out.

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

Sentencing Delayed for Official Guilty of Nuclear Reactor Construction Fraud in South Carolina, Feds Say Investigation to Continue Another Year

SRSW · October 13, 2020 ·

SRS Watch news, October 13, 2020: Sentencing Postponed for SCANA Official who Admitted Felony Fraud in Nuclear Construction Project; Federal Attorney Indicates “Additional Targets” being Investigated and that the Investigation Will Continue at Least a Year

Columbia,

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

DOE Reveals 11.5 Metric Tons of Plutonium Stored at SRS; SRS Watch Believes that Plutonium Storage is now Safe Despite Claims of those Trying to get their Hands on $600 Million Settlement between DOE and State of South Carolina

SRSW · September 29, 2020 ·

U.S. Department of Energy Confirms 11.5 Metric Tons of Plutonium Stored at Savannah River Site; SRS Watch Supports DOE Assertion that Plutonium Storage “Not Posing any Additional Risk to Communities Surrounding the SRS”

An Additional 35 MT of Plutonium could come to SRS for Processing as Waste and for Plutonium Pit Production for Nuclear Weapons Yet Politicians in South Carolina Remain Silent about associated Risks

Columbia,

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

EIS on SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant totally Inadequate; “Pit” Production for Unneeded Nuclear Warheads mean more Plutonium and Nuclear Waste in South Carolina

SRSW · September 25, 2020 ·

Environmental Impact Statement on Savannah River Site Plutonium Bomb Plant is Inadequate; Dodges Need for New Nuclear Bomb Facility, Overlooks Key Environmental Issues and Claims no Environmental Justice Issues –

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

DOE’s Plan to Dispose of Fresh MOX – Containing 28 kgs of Weapon-Grade Plutonium – as Waste Merits Environmental and Security Reviews

SRSW · September 23, 2020 ·

DOE Decision to Dispose of Unirradiated Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Stored at Los Alamos National Lab in the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant must be Reviewed in Environmental Impact Statement and Non-Proliferation Assessment

Unprecedented Disposal as Waste of Useless Test MOX Fuel,

Filed Under: SRS Watch News

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