SRS Watch News

Numerous Comments Submitted on NNSA’s Draft EIS on the SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant; Question Need for Expanding Plutonium “Pit” Production to SRS, Call for Programmatic EIS to Review Pit Need

In Bizarre and Dangerous Twist,

SRS Watch news release, May 12, 2020:  Inadequate Los Alamos Lab Environmental Analysis of Plutonium “Pit” Production for 4000 New and Refurbished Nuclear Warheads Must be Amended by DOE to Cover Key Issues Overlooked

Options to “Reuse” Pits and Method to Purify Plutonium are Key Matters Totally Lacking from Draft Supplement Analysis,

DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration Extends by 15 Days Comment Period on Draft EIS on Proposed Savannah River Site Plutonium Bomb Plant, Period Extended from May 18 to About June 2

Columbia,

FOIA Documents Confirm Profiteers Still Pursuing Scheme to Dump Highly Radioactive German Spent Fuel (Graphite “Pebbles”) at SRS – Should be Terminated

SRS and the German entity Jülicher Entsorgungsgesellschaft für Nuklearanlagen (JEN) are still working on the scheme to import German highly radioactive graphite spent fuel from the Jülich,

“DOE Ignores COVID-19 Threat, Diverts Resources to Planning for Nuclear War by Releasing Draft Environmental Study on SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP)”

Today,

Why is Savannah River site management not telling the public what’s going on at SRS is response to the threat of the coronavirus?

As SRS management has failed to release a list of “mission-critical activities”

SRS Watch news, March 27, 202o:  “While the Nation Rallies to Confront Virus, Savannah River Site Takes Eye Off the Threat and Focuses on Planning for New Nuclear Arms Race  –

This is Very Worrying: SRS Action Against the Virus Comes Late, After Public Already Acting

The DOE’s Savannah River Site (SRS) on the afternoon of Monday,

“Request to Publish Notice of Draft Supplement Analysis in the Federal Register, DOE/EIS-0380-SA-06: Draft Supplement Analysis”

Public interest groups working for US DOE to fully comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) in its unjustified plans to produce more plutonium “pits”

We are hearing NOTHING about what DOE and the NRC are doing to protect public safety by working to make sure staffing at key operations – like SRS high-level waste management &

Is SRS and the German entity Jülicher Entsorgungsgesellschaft für Nuklearanlagen (JEN) still working on the scheme to import German highly radioactive graphite spent fuel from the Jülich storage site to SRS for reprocessing and dumping? 

Is the scheduled start-up of the far over-budget, far behind-schedule Salt Waste Processing Facility (SWPF) at risk?

The SWPF facility is key to SRS high-level waste management.

DOE Budget Documents Reveals Massive, Unrealistic Funding Request for Plutonium Bomb Plant at SRS

Columbia, South Carolina – New budget-request documents released by the U.S.

Time to End US-Germany Cooperation Aimed at Importing, Dumping Highly Radioactive German Spent Fuel at DOE’s Savannah River Site, According to SRS Watch; Storage at Jülich Only Viable Option

SRS-JEN Work for Others Agreement Modification 6 and Attachments,

UPDATE: DOE chickens out, hides in shadows and won’t today release budget details, tells taxpayers to TAKE A HIKE!

SRS Watch news: DOE’s Budget Request for Fiscal Year 2021 Blows up Debt and Heightens Risk of New Nuclear Arms Race;

SRS Watch Formal Comments on “Draft Environmental Assessment for the Commercial Disposal of Defense Waste Processing Facility Recycle Wastewater From the Savannah River Site”

SRS proposes to dispose of 10,000 gallons of high-level liquid tank waste via a grouted material dumped in a commercial low-level waste facility.

DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration has Posted Performance Evaluation Documents for Savannah River Nuclear Solutions for FY 2019; “Award Fee” Bonus Again Inexplicably High

Bonus Documents Released in Advance of DOE Budget Request to Congress for FY2021,

ANA/SRS Watch: “MEDIA ADVISORY: WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY’S FY 2021

NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND CLEANUP BUDGET REQUEST

February 6, 2020 –

COMMUNITIES PUSH BACK AGAINST REPORTS OF HUGE NUCLEAR WEAPONS BUDGET INCREASE

Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA)/SRS Watch news release, February 4, 2020

Multiple sources indicate the FY2021 budget request from the Trump Administration will seek a dramatic increase in funding for nuclear weapons—an unprecedented leap of 20% over current spending levels,

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, Savannah River Site Watch (SRS Watch) has filed the following request:

1)   All National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) FY 2019 Performance Evaluation Reports (PERs),

SRS Watch radio interview on the crazy & co$tly scheme to turn the failed MOX plant into an unjustified Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP); a lawsuit under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) may loom

WBAI News with Paul DeRienzo,

Sierra Club program for January 27, 2020 will be on the proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at SRS

The John Bachman Group of the Sierra Club,

https://srswatch.org/2074-2/

Watchdog Groups Claim Nuclear Agency is Moving Forward to Manufacture New Plutonium Bomb Cores in Violation of National Environmental Law and an Existing Court Order

Group news release,

Based on observation by members of SRS Watch on December 5, 29019, it looks like no covers have been put over the waste disposal trenches at the Barnwell low-level nuclear waste dump, 

Photo by SRS Watch, December 5, 2019: The looming hulk of the long-shuttered Allied-General Nuclear Services (AGNS) reprocessing plant near Barnwell, South Carolina (and adjacent to the DOE’s Savannah River Site).

Per requirements of the Freedom of Information Act, will DOE provide documents to SRS Watch by December 5, 2019 on the conversion of MOX plant to a Plutonium Bomb Plant?

Focus of Presentations:  Why the proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant at SRS is Dangerous and unnecessary & and Lessons Learned from the DOE’s Rocky Flats Disaster with Plutonium Pit Production in Colorado

Rocky Flats Disaster: Red Light for SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant,