Watchdog Groups Claim Nuclear Agency is Moving Forward to Manufacture New Plutonium Bomb Cores in Violation of National Environmental Law and an Existing Court Order
Group news release, January 9, 2020
“The Department of Energy’s semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has formally announced that it is proceeding with aggressive plans to expand the production of plutonium pits without required nation-wide “programmatic” public review. The Natural Resources Defense Council, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, Savannah River Site Watch and Tri-Valley CAREs assert this is in direct violation of the legal requirements of both the National Environmental Policy Act and a 1998 court order that stipulates that DOE must prepare a “programmatic environmental impact statement” (PEIS) when it plans to produce more than 80 pits per year. Plutonium pits are the radioactive cores or “triggers” of nuclear weapons.”
Full news release posted here: Pit production SA group news release Jan 9 2020
New release posted by Nuclear Watch New Mexico: https://nukewatch.org/newsite/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/PR-Pits-NNSA-final-Supplement-Analysis.pdf
Photo by High Flyer: poorly constructed MOX plant at SRS; NNSA has not demosntrated that this facility can be converted into a proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP)