On October 28, 2026, a fire in a lab at the Savannah River National Lab was reported, with at least one worker harmed and contaminated air vented without filtration.
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German Highly Radioactive Spent Fuel not Dumped at SRS Unnecessarily on the Move in Germany, from Jülich to Ahaus
Photo of citizen protest along the transport route – © m@rcel.press
German highly radioactive spent fuel (uranium impregnated graphite balls) on the move – almost got dumped on SRS but for citizen and SRS Citizen Advisory Board opposition:
“A 60,000-pound steel cask holding up to 1,900 graphite fuel balls from a German reactor shut down 38 years ago rolled out at 10:40 at night under a police helicopter and reached a storage hall 105 miles away at 1:40 a.m.,
NRC Releases List of Drones Spotted Over US Nuclear Plants, 2024-2026; Reminds of US SRS “Drone Scare” Hype in 2016
NRC listing of drones reported over various US nuclear power plants, 2024-2026, posted in the NRC’s digital library on October 26, 2026 – includes Oconee & VC Summer in South Carolina –
“US government’s dangerous rush to produce new plutonium pits,” Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, October 22, 2026
“The US government’s dangerous rush to produce new plutonium pits”
>> article by Dr. Dylan Spaulding, Union of Concerned Scientists, and Curtis T. Asplund, assistant professor in the Department of Physics &
DOE okays construction of the next home for the nation’s largest supply of nuclear warhead triggers
Georgia Public Broadcasting, Wednesday, October 20, 2026
“On Monday, the Department of Energy (DOE) issued its approval of full-scale construction at the SRPPF to produce up to 125 war reserve plutonium pits annually.
DOE Refuses to Release New Cost Estimate for SRS Plutonium Pit Plant – Why? Cost Expected to be more than $15+ Billion over 2021 Estimate
DOE Hides Just-Approved, Official Cost Estimate of SRS Plutonium Pit Plant, Keeps
Public in the Dark about Size of Escalating Cost for New Nuclear Weapons Facility,
ATTENTION: No Containment Planned for newcleo’s MOX-Fueled Lead-Cooled Reactors at SRS!
ATTENTION please: NO containment structure planned for newcleo lead-cooled reactors planned for SRS! newcleo plans for its plutonium-fueled (MOX) lead-cooled fast reactors to have “functional containment”
DOE Unleashes Chaos with DOE/Amentum Gas/Nuke AI Data Center “Proposal” by Washington “Elites” for SRS; SRS Watch Responds with FOIA Request, Call for Openness
DOE’s AI imagination goes off the rails: You may have seen that entities outside of South Carolina and apparently in DOE’s HQ, without consulting the public, made the following announcement on July 20,
“Once secret report on atomic weapons production released as greens fight plans in SC, NM,” The State, August 14, 2026 – The “report” is no endorsement of a rush to new pit production
“Once secret report on atomic weapons production released as greens fight plans in SC, NM”
The State, Columbia, South Carolina, by Sammy Fretwell, August 14, 2026
https://www.thestate.com/news/local/environment/article316871213.html
[Note: The reporter failed to discern between the 2019 JASON recommendation to “manufacture”
“Unleashing Plutonium Proliferation” Report Released by SRS Watch – on DOE’s Dangerous Effort to Introduce Weapons Plutonium into the Civilian Fuel Cycle, October 31, 2025
Savannah River Site Watch news, October 21, 2025:
Report on Plutonium-Use Plans by Department of Energy and Oklo Inc Pose Unacceptable Nuclear Proliferation Risks; Program to Give Away 19.7 Tons of DOE Plutonium Must be Halted
SRS Watch Report Unleashing Plutonium Proliferation in the U.S.