DOE’s 2037 Deadlines for SRS: Realistic or Illusory?
The Department of Energy’s (DOE) Savannah River Site (SRS) has two major milestones to achieve by 2037. One is legally binding, the other is a commitment that remains negotiable. By...
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SRS WATCH: Nuclear Weapons Funding Request for DOE, Savannah River Site Takes a Huge Leap in Support of Dangerous, Enduring U.S. Plans to Fight a Full-Scale Nuclear War
SRS to Take a Larger Role in Nuclear Weapons Activities as Funding for SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant Spirals Out of Control, Increasing 189% in One Year and Nearing $1 Billion Per...
Confirmation that SRS Plutonium was taken to DOE’s Pantex Site in Texas
The Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB), which conducts oversight of DOE projects, has confirmed that plutonium from SRS was taken to the Pantex site in Texas, for storage. Sounds...
Modernization: The Mainspring of NNSA FY 2022 Budget Request in the Form of Ballooning SRS Pit Costs
The National Nuclear Security Administration’s detailed fiscal year 2022 budget request was (partially) unveiled last week on Friday, May 28, in the evening before a long holiday weekend. The Biden...
‘Highly skeptical’: House Armed Services chairman concerned about SRS pit production
Biden administration expected to take ‘critical look’ at next-generation warhead, estimated to be twice as explosive as Trident By: Colin Demarest cdemarest@aikenstandard.com / postandcourier.com In blunt, if not damning, remarks at...
‘Highly skeptical’: House Armed Services chairman concerned about SRS pit production
Smith’s doubts are neither new nor uncommon. And they cast a dark shadow over what many in Aiken County see as a jobs jackpot, among other things. BY: Colin Demarest cdemarest@aikenstandard.com...
Chairman of House Armed Services Committee Reveals Great Skepticism in NNSA’s Ability to Covert SRS MOX Facility to Plutonium Pit Production, Refers to $6 Billion Project as Potential “Rat Hole”
Savannah River Site Watch https://srswatch.org/ Columbia, South Carolina USA For Immediate Release December 14, 2020 The powerful chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, Representation Adam Smith, has raised great...
DOE Issues Controversial Decision to Pursue a Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at Savannah River Site (SRS); Inadequate Environmental Review and Lack of Justification for Production of 50 or More “Pits” per Year to Modernize Entire Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Open to Legal Challenge
November 5, 2020 The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) today issued a formal decision that it will pursue a massive Plutonium Bomb Plant (PBP) at the DOE’s Savannah River Site...
U.S. Department of Energy Confirms 11.5 Metric Tons of Plutonium Stored at Savannah River Site; SRS Watch Supports DOE Assertion that Plutonium Storage “Not Posing any Additional Risk to Communities Surrounding the SRS”
https://srswatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/SRSW-news-on-SRS-plutonium-inventory-Sep-29-2020.pdf
Proposed Plutonim Bomb Plant at SRS in South Carolina Draws Criticism from Public; NNSA’s Nuclear War Plans Challenged
DOE’s NNSA Quietly Plans for All-Out Nuclear War as Coronavirus Rages and Peace and Justice Demonstrations Grow; Plutonium Pit Production to Stimulate Arms Race SAVANNAH RIVER SITE WATCH | einpresswire.com...
Scuttlebiz: Will ‘pit production’ save SRS?
“Don’t be lulled into a false sense of urgency by the federal law “requiring” pit production begin by 2030. That law carries as much weight as the 1982 federal act...
Spent Nuclear Fuel from Germany to SRS? Dumping-for-Profit Scheme Drags On & On & Should be Terminated
FOIA Documents Confirm Profiteers Still Pursuing Scheme to Dump Highly Radioactive German Spent Fuel (Graphite “Pebbles”) at SRS – Should be Terminated SRS and the German entity Jülicher Entsorgungsgesellschaft für Nuklearanlagen (JEN)...
DOE Ignores COVID-19 Threat, Diverts Resources to Planning for Nuclear War by Releasing Draft Environmental Study on SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant
Today, in the middle of the growing coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Department of Energy ignored the real national crisis and irresponsibly shifted its focus to planning for nuclear war, revealing...
Public Event – Rocky Flats Disaster: Red Light for SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant
Speakers: Dr. LeRoy Moore and Patricia Mellen, Esq, who is trying to get grand jury documents about the FBI raid released on behalf of the Rocky Mountain Peace and Justice...
DOE for First Time Rejects Safety Board Recommendation – SRS Watch
SRS Watch and Nuclear Watch New Mexico have been working hard together on pit production issues. SRS Watch and NukeWatch NM, alongside other groups in ANA, have requested that the...
Forum addresses plutonium pit expansion at SRS
BY SARAH LEBLANC | augustachronicle.com AIKEN — A forum regarding the Department of Energy’s proposed expanded production of plutonium pits at Savannah River Site was held Friday evening. About 70...
Nuclear Weapons Issues & The Accelerating Arms Race: October 2026 Updates
Nuclear Weapons: John Pope, Chief Audience Officer at Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists: Some interesting polling on existential risk from the well respected “America Speaks” poll from NORC at UChicago....
There IS NO need for speed.
Value safety over speed when handling nukes That is no need for speed other than the National Nuclear Security Administration’s and LANL’s aggressive agenda to get unneeded plutonium “pit” bomb...
Public Interest Groups Warn NNSA on Plutonium Giveaway
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, September 8, 2026 Joint Press Release from: South Carolina Environmental Law Project, Savannah River Site Watch & Nuclear Watch New Mexico Contact: Tom Clements, Director, SRS Watch,...
Nuclear Weapons Issues & The Accelerating Arms Race: September 2026
Nuclear Weapons: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-drafting-new-us-nuclear-strategy-case-regional-war-china-russ-rcna587370 Pentagon drafting a new U.S. nuclear strategy in case of regional war with China or Russia, sources say The Defense Department’s policy chief is drafting a new...
NNSA Releases New Plutonium Life Study – Key Finding: Plutonium Aging Not Affecting Existing Nuclear Weapons
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, August 10, 2026 Contact: Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, 505.989.7342, c. 505.470.3154 | Email Sophia Stroud, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, 505.231.9736 | Email Santa Fe, NM...
Nuclear Watchdog Sues for Plutonium Pit Production “Special Study”
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, August 4, 2026 Contact: Jules Zacher, Esq., 215.888.5183, | Email Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, 505.989.7342, c. 505.470.3154 | Email Sophia Stroud, Nuclear Watch New Mexico,...
Sample Comments for the Draft Plutonium Pit Production Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS)
Why should you comment? This process produces valuable information, increases government accountability and transparency, and creates a legal administrative record that has led to important litigation in the past. The...
Plaintiffs Demand Release of Critical Documents and Extension of Public Comment Period on Expanded Plutonium Bomb Core Production
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, July 6, 2026 Contact: Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, 505.989.7342, c. 505.470.3154 | Email Scott Yundt, Tri-Valley CAREs, 925.443.7148 | Email Georgetown, SC — Today the...