Comments by Savannah River Site Watch (SRS Watch) on the Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Surplus Plutonium Disposition Program (SPDP EIS) (DOE/EIS–0549:
https://www.energy.gov/nepa/doeeis-0549-surplus-plutonium-disposition-program)
27-page comments of SRS Watch posted here: Comments on Pu disposition draft EIS Clements March 16 2023
The comments by SRS Watch, submitted on March 16, 2023, raise numerous questions about the challenges to plutonium disposition, including if all the various plutonium waste stream going into the DOE’s Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico will surpass the volume limit as established by federal law (Land Withdrawal Act).
> And, on March 26, 2023, SRS Watch submitted comments to the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) on the draft permit for the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (comments due by April 19, 2023): comment by SRS Watch on draft NMED permit for WIPP March 24 2023
Second SRS Watch comment on draft WIPP permit, April 19, 2023 (last day of comment period): WIPP permit comment SRS Watch April 19 2023
> NMED is posting all comments on the draft permit for WIPP here: https://nmed.commentinput.com/comment/extra?id=G5E7C
DOE photos: plutonium puck, separated from irradiated material at SRS & drums containing 3013 plutonium storage cans stacked high at the K-Reactor at SRS