Request of SRS Citizens Advisory Board (CAB) to Closely Monitor Plutonium Issues at SRS – Large Amount Set to Come in with Risks of Environmental Issues, Possibility of being Stranded (like Plutonium Imported for Bungled MOX Project)
DOE,State of South Carolina Agree on Paper to Remove a Total of 9.5 Metric Tons of Plutonium from Savannah River Site – But Total Amount of Plutonium at SRS is Now 11.5 MT and DOE Plans to Bring in ~35 Metric Tons More for Processing for Disposal (via “Dilute & Dispose”) and for Unjustified Fabrication into “Pits” for Nuclear Warheads in Proposed, Unneeded SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant
Comment submitted for record of the CAB’s meeting of September 21, 2020: SRS Watch on plutonium at SRS, comment to SRS CAB September 22 2020
DOE photo above: Tom Clements (foreground) of SRS Watch observes containers of downblended plutonium from SRS at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in new Mexico, October 1, 2015.
Photo below: Concrete culverts containing drums with downblended plutonium in E-Area at SRS, March 2015, before shipment to WIPP, as observed by Clements of SRS Watch and colleagues in the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA)
