May 17, 2017: SRS Watch to Join with Sister Organizations to Meet with Congressional and Administration Offices in Washington, DC to Represent the Public Interest in DOE Funding and Policy Matters, including Savannah River Site
Alliance for Nuclear Accountability’s (ANA) Annual “DC Days” Includes Release of “Accountability Audit” Report on Ways to Reduce Costs and Risks in the DOE Complex, Including Cutting MOX at SRS
Columbia, SC – Savannah River Site Watch is headed to Washington from May 21 to 24 to join with non-profit public interest groups from across the country to advocate for prompt clean-up of DOE sites and a shift in the growing nuclear weapons budget to projects protecting workers and public health and the environment. Termination of the bungled plutonium fuel MOX project at SRS will be a focus of SRS Watch meetings.
SRS Watch will collaborating with about 70 colleagues from about 15 non-profit groups from a dozen states who are participating in the 29th annual Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA) “DC Days.” During visit, the groups will distribute copies of ANA’s new report “Accountability Audit: Reducing risks and saving billions across the US nuclear weapons complex,” a 20-page plan for reducing risks and saving billions of dollars across the U.S. nuclear weapons complex. The Accountability Audit report is posted here: http://bit.ly/accountability-audit
ANA’s “Accountability Audit” report linked here