Monitors a host of energy and nuclear issues from a public interest perspective
Review of “Accuracy” of CB&I Areva MOX Services Payments to HVAC Contractor Intermech by DOE NNSA Reveals “Lack of Due Diligence,” Questionable Payments, Faulty Work; Document Obtained by SRS Watch Raises Similar Concerns as Federal Fraud Case involving MOX Services and Wise Services
“Concerns” and “Findings” in “Assessment Report” by NNSA of Management by MOX Services of Intermech Subcontract Underscores Need for Deeper Investigations into Possible Fraud,
Time for Congress to get the national security budget-cutting ax out to protect us from the threat of a new Cold War!
“Trump’s 2020 Nuclear Weapons Budget Escalates New Arms Race”
NRC Issues Final Inspection Report for MOX Plant Construction with Two Violations; Failure to Keep Records for Stored Equipment may Pose Challenges for its Future Use in a “Repurposed” Facility
Columbia,
SRS Watch, March 13, 2019: VC Summer AP1000 “Combined Operating License” (COL) termination for halted units 2 and 3 – not something you’ll see every day! This is the final nail in the coffin of new reactors in South Carolina &
Environment News Service, posted
Feb. 19, 2019 – article linked here
DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) refuses, so far, to prepare the legally mandated Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) on pit production.
As crazy and anti-transparency as it sounds, did you know the public must pay 10 cents per page to download federal court papers, via the court’s PACER system? SRS Watch –
SRS Watch news, February 11, 2019
See NRC letter and two enclosures linked in “notes” at end of release
Columbia,
Thanks to the Guacamole Fund, SRS Watch will be tabling on Friday, February 8, 2019 at the Bonnie Raitt-James Taylor concert at the Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, South Carolina.
Thanks to our friend Bonnie Raitt for requesting that Savannah River Site Watch table at the Bonnie Raitt/James Taylor concert on February 8, 2019 in Columbia, South Carolina!
We gathered a bunch of letters against the unjustified expansion of nuclear weapons production –
“Office of the Clerk United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit Post Office Box 193939 San Francisco, California 94119-3939 415-355-8000 February 05, 2019
Short Title:
State of Nevada v.
Las Vegas (Nevada) Review-Journal, January 30, 2019 – linked here
>>> with news conference video – smaller box to the right – of Nevada governor & general: “DOE negotiations were a sham” – “irresponsible” -and misled the State of Nevada and Nevada federal district court –
Articles on deceptive DOE’s secret plutonium shipment, with SRS Watch:
WJBF TV, Augusta, Georgia, January 30, 2019 – linked here
SRS Watch news, January 30, 2019
Columbia, South Carolina – The U.S. Department of Energy has secretly shipped a large amount of weapon-grade plutonium from the Savannah River Site in South Carolina to Nevada.
Sounds like it may still be at SRS but who knows?! Let us know if you know: srswatch@gmail.com
DOE was going to remove 1 metric tonne of plutonium from the K-Reactor storage facility at SRS but the court document of January 30,
Charleston (South Carolina) Post & Courier, Jan. 31, 2019
“This shipment does absolutely nothing to solve what happens to the plutonium at the Savannah River Site,” said Tom Clements,
Demand for preparation by DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) for a legally required Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) on pit production is growing
On January 29,
Citizens in South Carolina express opposition to unjustified, costly, dirty production of plutonium “pits” (for nuclear weapons) in the shuttered plutonium fuel (MOX) plant at the DOE’s Savannah River Site –
Nuclear Weapons Profiteers Beware: This will not stand – $94 billion increases in cost of nuclear weapons over next decade – to $494 billion, a 23% increase since 2017
While DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) keeps digging a hole in avoiding preparing the legally required Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) on expanded pit production,
Good to see that an invitation-only briefing has been scheduled in Congress about problems and obstacles associated with ramped up production of plutonium “pits” (for nuclear weapons).
Expanded pit production at Los Alamos National Lab and/or Savannah River Site (which has never produced pits),
Radioactive Hot Spot Caused by Rainwater Leak into Aging H-Canyon Reprocessing Plant at SRS, Causing Posting of “Contamination Area” on Floor; DOE Admits Previous Leaks but Unable to Stop Rainwater Intrusion that could Contaminate “Clean Parts of the Building” with Radioactive Material
As Problems Mount at H-Canyon: Can the Aging Facility be Operated Safely;
SRS Watch in “Rainwater contamination discovered at SRS processing plant” [H-Canyon spent fuel reprocessing plant]
WRDW TV, Augusta, Georgia, January 17, 2019
&
On January 17, a hearing is slated to go forward in federal court in Nevada on the unjustified shipment of 1 metric ton of surplus weapon plutonium from SRS to the Device Assembly Facility (DAF) at the Nevada Nuclear Security Site.
Federal Appeals Court in Richmond, VA Issues Final Ruling Allowing DOE’s Termination of the Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Project at SRS; Determines Federal Court in South Carolina Mistaken in Blocking MOX Termination
Expected Ruling Affirms Earlier Temporary Decision,
– see SRS Watch news release of Jan. 8, 2019
Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, January 8, 2019
Photos ©High Flyer of Bungled MOX Project at SRS Reveal Termination Activities Proceeding; At VC Summer, Costly Equipment still Abandoned in Place, Massive Crane still Standing
The Sad Question Begs: Why is South Carolina Home to the Two Largest and Costliest Terminated Nuclear Construction Projects in the United States?
Federal Judge in Nevada Denies DOE Request to “Stay” the State of Nevada’s Request for the “Preliminary Injunction” (PI) on Plutonium Shipment from SRS to NV, January 2, 2019
State of South Carolina Intervenes in Case,
SRS Watch in
“State of Nevada request to stop SRS plutonium shipment goes to federal court”
WXGF TV, FOX 54< Augusta, Georgia, January 7, 2018
”Hearing set for lawsuit to block shipment of plutonium to Nevada”
Las Vegas, Nevada, Review-Journal, Jan. 7, 2019
