Secret Plans Underway to Bring Spent Research Reactor Stored in the United Kingdom to the Savannah River Site – Material from the Republic of Georgia Should Stay in the UK
Proposal On Top of Plans to Bring Foreign Plutonium to SRS as Nuclear Security Summit Approaches
Is SRS Becoming an International Nuclear Waste Site Under Thin Veil of Nuclear Non-Proliferation?
Columbia, South Carolina – Secret plans to bring more nuclear materials to the Savannah River Site in advance of the Nuclear Security Summit in March 2016 appears to be actively developing in the United Kingdom, according to Savannah River Site Watch, a public interest organization that has been aware of the initial shipment plans for two years.
news release linked here
Dounreay “Transpsort” – website
Exotic Fuels and Nuclear Materials – Dounreay – preferred option
SRS Watch news linked here – December 21, 2015
2016 Nuclear Security Summit Stimulating Plutonium & Nuclear Waste Dumping at SRS?
Dec. 22 Update: Mired in Unjustified Secrecy and Entrapped by the Bureaucratic Juggernaut at DOE’s HQ in Washington, DOE/NNSA Have Been Caught Flat-Footed & So Far Have Nothing to Say to the Public about Abetting Foreign Plutonium Dumping at SRS (Under a Thin, Tattered Veil of Nuclear Non-Proliferation). No Justification Presented by DOE/NNSA as to Why Plutonium Originating in Nuclear Weapons States would Come to SRS. DOE/NNSA: Please Provide the Draft EA as We Requested & Break Your Silence about the Pu Import!
photo: Fast Critical Assembly (FCA) at Tokai R & D Center, Japan
U.S. Department of Energy Quietly Gearing Up to Bring 331 Kilograms of Plutonium at “Fast Critical Assembly” in Japan to Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina with No Exit Path Out of the State
Import being Pursued in Advance of Nuclear Security Summit in March 2016 Includes 236 Kg of UK-Origin Plutonium that Should Not Go to SRS Given Struggles with Plutonium Fuel (MOX) Program
In Report Released Today, SRS Watch Calls on State of South Carolina to Oppose UK Plutonium to SRS:
Columbia, South Carolina – Under a guise of nuclear non-proliferation, the U.S Department of Energy has quietly initiated a confidential process by which a large amount of foreign-owned plutonium in Japan would be brought to the DOE’s Savannah River Site (SRS) in South Carolina, according to the public interest group Savannah River Site Watch (SRS Watch).
In a DOE environmental schedule of December 16, DOE reveals that it authorized the preparation of a document entitled “Environmental Assessment [EA] for Gap Material Plutonium – Transport, Receipt, and Processing” on October 30, 2015. This document is in secret analyzing shipment of 331 kilograms of plutonium in Japan to SRS.
“DOE’s Plutonium Dilemma” report linked here