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,
SRS Watch News
Barnwell, SC nuclear waste dump & SC DHEC thumb nose at SC Supreme Court
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,
Old Barnwell Reprocessing Plant Stands as Tribute to Failed Idea
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).
FOIA Request on Repurposing of the MOX Plant to a Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP): Documents to SRS Watch by December 5, 2019?
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?
NNSA Must Comply with a Host of Things before Proceeding Further on SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP)
Among other things, DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNA) must halt proceeding on plans for the unauthorized and unfunded SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PMP) until the following (and other) things are complied with.
Presentations by Speakers at Nov. 12 Events on SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant & Rocky Flats Plutonium Pit-Production Disaster
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,
NNSA’s Violation of FOIA on Conversion of MOX Plant to Plutonium Bomb Plant is Challenged
Lawyer for SRS Watch demands response from DOE to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for documents on “repurposing” the shuttered plutonium fuel (MOX) plant into a Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP).
SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) – Two Events on Tues., Nov. 12 by SRS Watch, in Aiken, SC, Augusta, GA
Proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) Focus of Public Two Events on Novembers 12, 2019 in Augusta, Georgia & Aiken, South Carolina
News Conference &
“ROCKY FLATS DISASTER: RED LIGHT for SRS PLUTONIUM BOMB PLANT” – Free Event on Nov. 12 in Aiken, SC
Public Forum on SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) coming on November 12 in Aiken, South Carolina – Please attend
The ad on the event in Aiken,
Public Forum on SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant & Lessons Learned from the Rocky Flats Plutonium Disaster, Nov. 12, Aiken, SC
SRS Watch news on NNSA’s Proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant at Savannah River Site and Lessons Learned from the Rocky Flats Plutonium Disaster – Forum in Aiken, SC on November 12,
Plutonium Disaster at DOE’s Rocky Flats: Red Alert for NO Plutonium Bomb Plant at SRS
Rocky Flats Disaster: Red Light for SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant
Public Forum on Tuesday, November 12, 7: 00 p.m. to 8:45 p.m. at the Aiken,
New Aerial Photos of Nation’s Bungled Nuclear Construction Projects Released: MOX, VC Summer, Vogtle
New Aerial Photos Released of Trifecta of U.S. Nuclear Construction Debacles: DOE’s Terminated Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Plant, Dominion/SCE&G Canceled V.C. Nuclear Reactor Project and Georgia Power’s Ongoing,
In Troubling Move, DOE for First Time Rejects Safety Board Recommendation, on Safety of SRS Tritium Facilities
An Ominous Sign for Safety at DOE Sites? US Department of Energy for the First Time Rejects a Recommendation of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board,
Groups Amp Up Demand for Proper, Legally Mandated Environmental Review of DOE Proposal for Expanded Plutonium Pit Production
Watchdogs Issue Second Demand for Nation-Wide Environmental Review of Expanded Plutonium Pit Production
On September 17, 2019, lawyers for the Natural Resources Defense Council,
New Letter Sent to DOE Demanding PEIS on Plutonium Pit Production at SRS, Los Alamos
Lawyers for the Natural Resources Defense Council, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Savannah River Site Watch and Tri-Valley Communities Against a Radioactive Environment sent a second letter to Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Rick Perry and Lisa Gordon-Hagerty,
SRS Watch Challenges Reuse of MOX Building as Unjustified “Plutonium Bomb Plant”
Savannah River Site Watch Revamps Website, Challenges NNSA’s Reuse of MOX Building as “Plutonium Bomb Plant”
Group Urges Armed Services Committees to Reject Expanded Plutonium “Pit” Production for Nuclear Weapons,
SRS Watch to Armed Services: No Funding for “Plutonium Bomb Plant” (PBP) at SRS, Require Proliferation Risk Assessment
The status of new plutonium “pit” production, for the cores of nuclear weapons, is the subject of negotiations in a conference committee between the U.S. House and Senate over their differing versions of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (NDAA).
More Highly Radioactive Research Reactor Spent Fuel Headed to SRS
SRS is set to accept more foreign research reactor spent fuel, including from Canada and Japan. There is no environmental or proliferation justification for low enriched uranium (LEU) fuels to be accepted from Canada or other countries.
SRS Watch Requests Modified Agreement with Germany for Research on Illegal Plan to Export Spent Fuel to SRS
Savannah River Site Watch has filed another Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for an amended “work for others” agreement between SRS (Savannah River National Lab) and the Jülicher Entsorgungsgesellschaft für Nuklearanlagen (JEN).
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SRS Watch Submits Comments on Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) Environmental Documents
SRS Watch has submitted a series of comments on DOE’s proposal to “repurpose” the abandoned MOX building at SRS into a “Plutonium Bomb Plant” – for two documents under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
Groups Oppose Wasteful Spending in Defense Bill, Including on Plutonium “Pit” Production at SRS
SRS Watch and other Groups Write to Key members of Armed Services Committees about Wasteful Spending in National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, including on the Issue of Expanded Plutonium “Pit”
Plutonium Bomb Plant at SRS? Look at the Plutonium Mess Left by DOE at Rocky Flats
WARNING: DOE’s record on plutonium “pit” production (for nuclear weapons) is abysmal. Witness the Rocky Flats disaster and chronic plutonium-handling problems at Los Alamos National lab. Yet, DOE is a pushing the unfunded and unauthorized (by Congress) Plutonium Bomb Plant on the Savannah River Site,
SRS Watch Submits Comments on Proposed “Versatile Test Reactor”
SRS Watch has submitted comments for the “scoping” for the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the proposed “Versatile Test Reactor.” DOE has proposed that SRS make the fuel for the reactor but SRS has no experience with such work since the production reactors at SRS closed in the 1980s.
DOE Requests License to Export More Bomb-Grade Uranium
The U.S. Department of Energy – National Nuclear Security Administration – has filed an export license request with the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission to export “highly enriched uranium” (bomb-grade uranium) to Europe.
SRS Watch in: “Lethal legacy – Why SC is likely stuck with a stockpile of the nation’s most dangerous nuclear materials”
Charleston (South Carolina) Post & Courier, July 7, 2019, front page print edition
Victory for SRS Watch and allied groups
Federal Government Meets Watchdogs’ Demand for Environmental Review of Expanded Plutonium “Pit” Production (for Nuclear Weapons), Including Preparation of Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on Proposed “Plutonium Bomb Plant” (PBP) at SRS
In a victory for transparency and legal compliance by the government,
“Noted Environmental Lawyers Warn Government Not to Expand Production of Plutonium Bomb Cores in Violation of National Environmental Policy Act and Public Review”
News release, June 4, 2019 – SRS Watch, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Tri-Valley CAREs
On behalf of three public interest organizations – Nuclear Watch New Mexico,
Summary of Classified Plutonium Pit Report Obtained, Outlines Challenges Facing Options Utilizing Savannah River Site and Los Alamos National Lab for Pit Production for Nuclear Weapons
>>> Public Forum on June 14 in Aiken, SC to Review Plans for Repurposing Closed MOX Plant at Savannah River Site into Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) <<<<
Columbia,
Savannah River Site Watch participated in the annual “DC Days” of the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA)
On May 20-22, 2019, 70 participants from 20 states, mostly near DOE sites, held over 100 meetings on the Hill and with agencies.
On May 21,