Savannah River Site is the third largest shipper of waste to WIPP, with 1,679 as of April 3, per the latest records from WIPP. By: Adrian Hedden | currentargus.com April 7,...
By: SRS Watch | srswatch.com The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has revealed that it has spent all of our money. Busted flat. Nothing left. Nada. Zilch....
A Pentagon official backed out of a plutonium pit production briefing in Columbia this week because the Biden administration is “engaged in a full review of the program,” according to...
Federal installations face a deadline of making 80 cores per year by 2030, with the first 30 due in five years. “Nuclear Watch New Mexico, South Carolina-based SRS Watch and...
Savannah River Site Watch, Nuclear Watch New Mexico and Tri-Valley CAREs, represented by the the S.C. Environmental Law Project, in early February sent a letter and supporting documents to the...
Jay Coghlan of Nuclear Watch New Mexico: “It’s important to note that no future pit production is to maintain the safety and reliability of the existing nuclear weapons stockpile. Instead,...
Savannah River Site Watch, Nuclear Watch New Mexico and Tri-Valley CARES recently retained the Environmental Law Project. They say pit factories are expensive, unnecessary, needlessly threaten the environment, and could...
“Given that no clear mission need has been established for the VTR and with an estimated price tag of $3 billion to $6 billion, with completion ranging from 2026 to...
Cincinnati – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Environmental Management (EM) awarded the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) Management and Operating (M&O) contract to Battelle Savannah River...
NNSA issues Notice of Intent to prepare Environmental Impact Statement for Surplus Plutonium Disposition Program “In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, an online scoping meeting will be held in...
Savannah River Site Watch Columbia, South Carolina https://srswatch.org/ November 30, 2020 Columbia, SC (aka new Nuclear Ground Zero) — Dramatic aerial photos of the massive nuclear construction projects in South...
Former SCANA CEO Kevin Marsh has agreed to plead guilty to federal conspiracy fraud charges, go to prison for at least 18 months and forfeit $5 million in connection with...
“South Carolina could be left holding the plutonium bag…It’s clear that the plutonium bomb plant at SRS is being driven by contractors and boosters who stand to profit by making...
“Given the importance of SWPF and this initial phase of its operation, updates must be frequent and honest by DOE, not delayed and incomplete,” – Tom Clements, director of SRS...
October 21, 2020 Ms. Fana Gebeyehu-Houston NEPA Document Manager National Nuclear Security Administration Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory P.O. Box 808, L-293, Livermore, CA 94551-0808 By Email to:LLNLSWEIS@nnsa.doe.gov Re: Scoping Comments...
“A former Democratic state legislator, Sellers said that from his experience, he knows if the $600 million — or however much money there is — goes into the general fund,...
“The DOE proposal to dispose of the useless MOX fuel pellets is unprecedented, but has been subjected to only a brief mention in an environmental analysis on pit production. Tom...
“According to a release, under the terms of the settlement, the Dept. of Energy remains obligated to remove the plutonium by 2037.” BY: Alexx Altman-Devilbiss | wpde.com COLUMBIA, S.C (WPDE) —...
It’s time to revisit the old fear that kept your parents up at night BY CAROL POLSGROVE / sierraclub.org On websites where policymakers, scholars, and military leaders gather, concern about the...
Plutonium Disposition via “Dilute & Dispose” to Bring at Least 22.5 Metric Tons More of Plutonium to Savannah River Site, On Top of 11.5 MT of Pu Already at SRS,...
“It looks like crime might well pay after all.” That was the weary and only slightly tongue-in-cheek conclusion drawn by longtime anti-nuclear campaigner, Tom Clements recently, after a former South...
HIROSHIMA OBSERVANCE Thursday, August 6, 2020 10AM-1PM LEST WE FORGET Vigil at the Gates of Kings Bay Trident Nuclear Submarine Base St. Marys, GA Thursday, August 6, 2020 7-8:40PM...
The United States Senate today passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, 86-14. Thursday, July 23, 2020 PRESS RELEASE: https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/press-releases/inhofe-reed-praise-senate-passage-of-national-defense-authorization-act-of-fiscal-year-2021 Full text of Bill: https://www.congress.gov/116/bills/s4049/BILLS-116s4049rs.pdf Report to...
MOX Project Wasted Vast Sums of Money on Stockpiling Huge Amounts of Equipment that Project Managers Knew would be Obsolete when the Project Began Operation – Investigations Needed Columbia, SC...