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.
The unnecessary, risky shipment of the plutonium involved its transfer from the K-Reactor storage facility at the Savannah River Site to “staging” at the Device Assembly Facility (DAF) at the Nevada Nuclear Security Site. Almost 13 metric tons of surplus weapons plutonium had been stored in the K-Rector prior to the shipment.
SRS Watch news release linked here, with link to court filing
photo: DOE secure transport trucks and escorts, leaving Charleston (South Carolina) ) naval weapons stations, April 2005, with load of experimental plutonium fuel (MOX) that had just arrived by sea from France; test of that MOX fuel in the Catawba reactor failed and the fuel was withdrawn after 2 18- month cycles rather being irradiated for t he planned 3 cycles,
©Tom Clements, SRS Watch