SRS Watch staff and volunteers were asked to table at the Bonnie Raitt/Lucinda Williams concerts in Charlotte, NC on June1, 2022 and in Columbia, SC on June 4, 2022. We got to listen to some great music and interacted with a lot of people and educated them about the crazy plans to locate the proposed Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at the US DOE’s Savannah River Site near Aiken, SC.
Bonnie gave SRS Watch a shout out from the stage and said “I love that group.” And we love Bonnie back!
We got a stack of letters to Congress signed against the PBP. You, too, can send it a letter – do it NOW! The letters are to two key members of the House Armed Services committee who have voiced concern about the cost and need for the $20 billion PBP.
Download the Word files, edit them, sign them and then print your name and address on the bottom right side:
Letter to Representative John Garamendi: letter to Rep Graramendi against SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant June 6 2022
Letter to Representative Jim Cooper: letter to Rep Cooper against SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant June 6 2022
Here are the ‘asks” in the letters, which you can also send to your members of Congress:
- Eliminate the Congressional requirement that DOE produce 80 plutonium pits per year (ppy) by 2030, a date which they have admitted can’t be reached. The 80 ppy figure is driving dubious efforts for an unneeded second pit plant and would result in an excess of pits.
- Reject authorization of the funding request for Fiscal Year 2023 for the SRS pit plant – $758 million for the pit plant and support activities, plus an additional $500 million requested by the Nuclear Weapons Council, for a stunning total of $1.25 billion. This amount must be cut.
- Conduct long-delayed investigations and hearings into the failed plutonium fuel (MOX) project at SRS, on which $8 billion or more was wasted. As part of this effort, please request all documents from DOE related to “lessons learned” by the MOX debacle. If details are not known about DOE and MOX contractor management failures, the pit plant may also be set up for failure.
Photo: SRS Watch table and volunteers at Bonnie Raitt concert, June 4, Township Auditorium, Columbia, SC.
ROCK ON!