Is SRS and the German entity Jülicher Entsorgungsgesellschaft für Nuklearanlagen (JEN) still working on the scheme to import German highly radioactive graphite spent fuel from the Jülich storage site to SRS for reprocessing and dumping? This bad idea to import the nuclear waste in large CASTOR casks just drags on and on…
As the reactors involved were the experimental gas-cooled AVR & THTR reactors – and not research reactors – it is illegal to export this material for reprocessing and dumping.
SRS Watch has asked DOE to terminate the “Work for Others” agreement with JEN. There has so far been no response from DOE. See February 20, 2020 post of SRS Watch here: https://srswatch.org/terminate-scheme-between-srs-and-germany-to-dump-highly-radioactive-german-spent-fuel-at-srs/
The last SRS-JEN agreement expired on February 29, 2020. As it is unknown if that agreement has been extended, SRS Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request in order to get any new, modified agreement. Stay tuned for a response to the request. See DOE March 9, 2020 confirmation of the FOIA request here: DOE FOIA acknowledgment to mod 7 request March 9 2020