The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) notes problems at the Savannah River National Laboratory – Matters not revealed by DOE and (as far as we know) not covered by local media, which is suffering from an all-time low in quality and quantity of reporting on SRS.
See DNFSB’s “Savannah River Site Activity Report for Week Ending April 27, 201” – linked here:
“Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL): SRNL management has initiated a safety pause effective Thursday at close of business as a result of multiple recent events and short comings (see below, and weekly report dated 4/13/18). The pause halts all discretionary research and development (R&D) and research operations division (ROD) activities. SRNL management are still determining the compensatory measures needed to reverse this negative trend.”
“The resident inspector attended several other event investigations at SRNL this week. The topics included improper shipment of hazardous material, failure to remove material-at-risk from the tracking database after shipment, and identification of spilled legacy depleted uranium from a cracked container.”
Attention DOE-SRS: Please inform us and the public about these events and the investigations into them: srswatch@gmail.com. We will post an update as to your response.