SRS Watch News

DOE is dragging its feet in providing “lessons learned” documents on the plutonium fuel (MOX) debacle.

Once again, DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) hasn’t provided documents,

US-Germany Research Cooperation over Highly Radioactive German Spent Fuel Reprocessing at DOE’s Savannah River Site Drags On, Continues to Violate Nuclear Non-Proliferation Norms

The Savannah River Operations Office has responded to a Freedom of information Act (FOIA) request from Savannah River Site Watch (SRS Watch) pertaining to the import and processing of highly radioactive German spent fuel at SRS.

DOE Oversight Board Releases Critical Assessment of SRS Plutonium Pit Plant, Presents Safety Observations in Advance of Facility’s “Preliminary Design,” to “Ensure Adequate Protection of Public Health and Safety”

Ruling by Federal Judge on Public Interest Lawsuit on the Plutonium Pit Issue Expected Soon

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Stunning and irresponsible: the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has admitted to SRS Watch that it has failed to review its regulation of the plutonium fuel (MOX) debacle at SRS!

Details of Secretive Work at Westinghouse Commercial Nuclear Fuel Plant in Columbia, SC , Key to All U.S. Nuclear Weapons held by the Department of Defense, Revealed in SRS Watch Report Released Today

The Report Crossing the Line: South Carolina Nuclear Weapons Secrets Exposed,

Groups Fire Back at Feds’ Move to Dismiss Plutonium Pit Lawsuit

Federal agencies continue to reject a full review of the public safety and environmental risks of producing nuclear bomb cores across multiple cross-country sites.

Two Nuclear Weapons Facilities in South Carolina Play a Key & Intertwined Role in the Dangerous Preparation for Nuclear War: Savannah River Site (Aiken, SC) &

SRS Watch files two important Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) – on 1) plutonium aging and 2) lessons learned from the plutonium fuel (MOX) debacle:

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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,

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,

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,

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,

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.

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.

“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,

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,

 

DON’T DUMP ROCK FLATS ON SOUTH CAROLINA!

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

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 &

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. 

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,

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,

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.

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),

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,

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,

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 &

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;

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 –

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;