Comments by SRS Watch to the South Carolina Governor’s Nuclear Advisory Council on July 10, 2014 – click here.
At the meeting in Columbia, South Carolina, the Department of Energy did a poor job presenting it’s half-baked proposal to dump spent fuel from Germany on the Savannah River Site. The official, pictured above, stumbled over a barrage of questions from the council about the timing of a Department of Energy’s study (“environmental assessment“) now being prepared concerning import of the highly radioactive spent fuel. It was clear that Germany’s schedule to remove the commercial spent fuel from the Juelich research center, in the form of highly radioactive graphite balls, is driving DOE’s schedule. There was skepticism shown by the council about DOE dancing to Germany’s tune in the effort to dump a radioactive mess on SRS. In oral and written comments, I revealed more about the scheme than DOE has so far cared to, underscoring the importance of having SRS Watch keeping an eye on what DOE is up to. Stay tuned for more on the meeting. Tom Clements, Director, SRS Watch
DOE’s inaccurate and incomplete presentation to the Governor’s Nuclear Advisory Council:
Potential Acceptance and Disposition of
German Pebble Bed Research Reactor
Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) Fuel
Environmental Assessment
Article about the meeting, about work at SRS to develop a new, proliferation-prone reprocessing technique to remove uranium from the graphite fuel: Scrutiny intensifies over German nuke waste shipments to SC, by Sammy Fretwell, The State, Columbia, South Carolina, July 11, 2014
video story on SC Governor’s Nuclear Advisory Council meeting:
WLTX TV, Columbia, SC, July 10, 2014
Enriched Uranium From Germany Still In Works For SRS