SRS Watch news release, May 10, 2019:
Questions Posed by SRS Watch about the Incident Go Unanswered
Columbia, SC – The U.S.
SRS Watch News
SRS Watch to participate in Earth Day Events
SRS Watch to participate in Earth Day Events at Aiken Technical College (ATC) on Wednesday, April 17, 2019 – Please stop by if you’re in the Aiken, South Carolina area!
SRS Watch news on continuing MOX debacle, March 29, 2019
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,
DOE has posted the nuclear weapons budget request to Congress for Fiscal Year 2020 – it goes crazy over nuclear weapons-related activities, including pit production at SRS, but doesn’t mention the timeline for the required Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) on the pit proposal.
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”
SRS Watch news, March 21, 2019
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,
South Carolina flips from “New Nuclear Ground Zero” to “Dead Nuclear Ground Zero!”
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 &
SRS Watch in “U.S. Pivots From Nuclear Reactor Fuel to Bomb Cores”
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.
SRS Watch shares the concern in this article about PACER: “Attacking a Pay Wall That Hides Public Court Filings”
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 –
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Terminates License (“Construction Authorization”) for Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Plant at DOE’s Savannah River Site; MOX Project now Officially Dead – Any Hope of Reviving Bungled Project is Shattered
SRS Watch news, February 11, 2019
See NRC letter and two enclosures linked in “notes” at end of release
Columbia,
Rock Out Against Plutonium Pit Production at SRS!
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.
Rock On!
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 –
Appeal by State of Nevada to block further plutonium shipments from SRS to South Carolina has on February 5, 2019 been assigned a case number by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, but no hearing date yet set
“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.
Filings by State of Nevada in Nevada district court, in plutonium shipment docket (3:18-cv-00569)
“Weapons-grade plutonium secretly sent to facility north of Las Vegas”
Las Vegas (Nevada) Review-Journal, January 30, 2019 – linked here
“DOE secretly ships plutonium to Nevada from SC”
>>> 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 –
“Secret shipment of Plutonium from SRS to Nevada revealed in court documents”
Articles on deceptive DOE’s secret plutonium shipment, with SRS Watch:
WJBF TV, Augusta, Georgia, January 30, 2019 – linked here
DOE Informs Nevada Court that Weapon-Grade Plutonium Shipment from DOE’s Savannah River Site to Nevada has taken Place; Unknown when Unjustified Shipment Occurred (but “before November 2018”)
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.
Where is DOE’s “missing” 1/2 tonne (500 kg, 1100 pounds) of weapon-grade plutonium?
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,
SRS Watch in “The government secretly shipped plutonium out of South Carolina. But tons remain”
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,
Concern about expanded plutonium “pit” production at SRS – for nuclear weapons – intensifies;
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,
Bombs Away at SRS? Not So Fast!
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 –
SRS Watch update, January 25, 2019
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,
SRS Watch tidbit – January 24, 2019 – “Pit Production Pitfalls”
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),
SRS Watch news release on H-Canyon reprocessing plant’s leaking roof, radiation problem
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”
SRS Watch in “Rainwater contamination discovered at SRS processing plant” [H-Canyon spent fuel reprocessing plant]
WRDW TV, Augusta, Georgia, January 17, 2019
&
Nevada federal court allows intervention by State of South Carolina in in case involving unnecessary plutonium shipment from SRS to Nevada
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.
RS Watch news release on MOX boondoggle
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,
SRS Watch in “Appeals court issues final ruling allowing DOE’s termination of MOX project”
– see SRS Watch news release of Jan. 8, 2019
Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle, January 8, 2019
New Aerial Photos of Trifecta of Failed Nuclear Projects Released: DOE’s Terminated Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Project at SRS, SCE&G’s VC Summer and Georgia Power’s Vogtle Reactor Construction
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 Court Hearing on State of Nevada’s “Preliminary Injunction” Request to Stop Unjustified Shipment of 1 Metric Ton of Plutonium from SRS to Nevada Set for January 17, 2019 in Reno, NV
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,