SRS Watch news release – April 14, 2015
22 Public Interest Groups Request DOE Prepare a “Nuclear Nonproliferation Assessment” on New Technique being developed at Savannah River Site to Reprocess German Spent Fuel
DOE Ignoring Proliferation Risks Inherent in New Reprocessing Method for Commercial Graphite Spent Fuel?
Columbia, South Carolina — Environmental and nuclear non-proliferation public interest organizations today requested of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) that a nuclear proliferation assessment be prepared on a new reprocessing technique being developed to reprocess German commercial spent nuclear fuel at the Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina.
The groups’ letter to Secretary of Energy Moniz and Administrator Frank Klotz of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) points out the new reprocessing method being developed by Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) holds proliferation risks that must be formally reviewed in a “nuclear nonproliferation impact assessment.” DOE has so far for unknown reasons refused to prepare such an essential assessment.
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letter to DOE/NNSA linked in news release and also here