The Savannah River Site (SRS) is not a dump for Germany’s high-level nuclear waste (spent fuel)!
For more information, contact SRS Watch at srswatch@gmail.org
The 310-square mile U.S. Department of Energy site is in the state of South Carolina, southeast of Augusta, Georgia and south of Aiken, South Carolina.
SRS is NOT a disposal site for any form of high-level nuclear waste, which includes spent fuel (as defined by US law).
High-level waste (HLW) now at SRS is required by US law to go to a geologic repository. But the US has no such repository, so HLW at the site is now stranded. Do not be fooled by any misinformation that commercial spent fuel brought from Germany is being sent to the site for disposal. SRS is a key facility in the US nuclear weapons complex, having produced 36 metric tons of weapon-grade plutonium and the site still processes all tritium gas for nuclear warheads. The site is struggling to deal with a large quantity of high-level waste – 37 million gallons, which were in 51 large tanks – remaining form nuclear weapons production. We do not want more waste brought into the site as it negatively impacts urgent and on-going clean-up activities.SRS is not a spent fuel disposal site! SRS ist kein Atommüllkippe!
For more information, contact SRS Watch at srswatch@gmail.org
Concern about and opposition to the proposed export of German spent fuel to the Savannah River Site in South Carolina is growing on a daily basis. It appears that the port of Nordenham, Germany, across the Weser River from the large port of Bremerhaven, is secretly being considered to export 457 casks containing German commercial spent fuel to SRS. Given that possibility, Die Linke, a German political party in the Nordenham city government, has taken notice that 300,000 highly radioactive graphite spent fuel balls from the AVR power reactor in Juelich could be exported via Nordenham and made an inquiry on July 14 about that to the city’s “Bürgermeister.” The US Department of Energy must reveal in its draft “environmental assessment” if it is considering use of Nordenham for this commercial venture and what the port’s ability is to handle 30-tonne casks containing high-level nuclear waste.