SRS Watch News

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,

Proposed SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) Focus of Public Two Events on Novembers 12, 2019 in Augusta, Georgia & Aiken, South Carolina

News Conference &

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,

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 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,

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,

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,

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,

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).