SRS Watch

Public oversight of the DOE's Savannah River Site is essential due to cost of mismanaged programs like the plutonium fuel (MOX) debacle and environmental risks.

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"Exposing the 'Conspiracy Reality' of Planning at the Savannah River Site (SRS) for Full-Scale Nuclear War" - focus on plutonium pit production for new warheads - by Savannah River Site Watch, Saturday, May 10, 2025, 10 a.m. ET, Unitarian church, 2701 Heyward St, Columbia, SC

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"JIMMY CARTER: Nuke Watchdog Commemorations," by Beyond Nuclear, January 2, 2025: https://t.co/SgIyquD4mu - "Given his very extensive involvement in key nuclear issues, president Jimmy Carter’s death, at age 100, on December 29, 2024, elicited response from nuclear watchdogs."

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Thank you, Jimmy Carter, for your monumental environmental and non-proliferation decision in 1977 - to halt reprocessing of commercial spent fuel!  South Carolina and the nation owe you a debt of gratitude. SRS Watch comment: https://t.co/kXxzzmzEk3

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Vote by Jan. 13, 2025 for SRS Watch and allied groups for Arms Control Person(s) of the Year 2024 - for opposition to US DOE's plans for new nuclear bomb factories at Savannah River Site & Los Alamos while ignoring nation's main environmental law (NEPA): https://t.co/kEMPrGgFIF

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US DOE’s Office of Hearings and Appeals Compels Savannah River Site (SRS) to Release Emails on Failed Effort to Import Highly Radioactive Spent Fuel from Germany - news: https://t.co/jogv6Lb2DZ

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Was massive legal fee in case of storage of plutonium at SRS lawful? "Dispute over $75M in legal fees SC attorney general paid to law firms now in judge’s hands" - The State, Columbia, SC, Oct. 12, 2023

https://t.co/8nHpkif1e5

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Storm clouds on the SRS nuclear bomb factory horizon: "Are They Already Cutting Corners on Worker Protection at DOE’s New Plutonium Processing Plant?" https://t.co/eyRhkqN8Yb @NNSANews @NNSAHruby @SRNLab

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South Carolina Chapter of the Sierra Club action alert, July 2023: Call to Action to Oppose Plutonium “Pit” Production (for new nuclear warheads)  -- Clean-up not build-up at the Savannah River Site near Aiken, South Carolina! https://t.co/5PMkzyacRN

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SRS Watch Files Appeal to Inadequate SRS Response to FOIA Request for Documents on the Now-Terminated Scheme to Dump Highly Radioactive German Spent Fuel at SRS, see post, with links to documents on SRS Watch website: https://t.co/psW0zS3kyO

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While investigative journalism is dead concerning SRS, good it still lives in New Mexico: "Safety lapses at Los Alamos National Laboratory - A history of flooding, earthquake and little fires in the belly of the beast" Searchlight New Mexico, July 13, 2023 https://t.co/gjHUDz2GP1

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"DOE Belatedly Admits it Stiffed Congress on Plan for Versatile Test Reactor (VTR)" - SRS was a possible site for plutonium fuel fabrication, which would create a lot of plutonium waste (TRU). SRS Watch on DOE FOIA response:
https://t.co/6ZQTLZVecu @INL @ANS_org @theNASciences

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Members of our grassroots network of public-interest groups near DOE sites - Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (ANA), of which SRS Watch is a member - met w/ Office of Environmental Management (EM) on April 25 to voice concern about site clean-up issues. https://t.co/AHGXvHp63c

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There is no "need" for a nuclear bomb factory (to make plutonium cores for new nuclear weapons) at SRS: "Dealing with a debacle: A better plan for US plutonium pit production"

Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, April 27, 2023

https://t.co/jnz7FKY4hc

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Plan to export highly radioactive German spent fuel from Juelich to DOE's Savannah River Site finally over as Germans halt project. SRS Watch news: https://t.co/TOXBGOqpTL @SRSNews @NNSANews @NNSAHruby @SRNLab @fz_juelich @BMBF_Bund @EMcleanup @greenpeace_de @GermanyDiplo

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Alarming funding proposed by Biden to fuel nuclear arms race: "Biden Releases Record NNSA Nuclear Weapons Budget," March 13 - by Nuclear Watch New Mexico (sister group of SRS Watch, in the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability): https://t.co/ZeGARzn2HU @alexbward @WilliamJBroad

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Will this plutonium waste & contaminated equipment again be dumped into unlined trenches at SRS? "Spain renews call for US to remove soil from nuclear accident site - Contaminated earth..result of 1966 air crash involving a B-52 loaded with hydrogen bombs" https://t.co/pCo06fHI0u

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SCANA Official in Charge of Construction of Failed V.C. Summer Nuclear Project in South Carolina to be Sentenced in Federal Court on March 8, 2023: https://t.co/RutBXDF7uk -- @AaronL_Power, @POWERmagazine, @Sierra_Magazine, @Roger_Conrad, @GavinBade, @SebastienMalo, @sue_sturgis

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SCANA Official in Charge of Construction of Failed V.C. Summer Nuclear Project to be Sentenced in Federal Court on March 8; Admitted Felon Faces 5-Years in Prison but Asks for 15-Month Sentence; Ratepayers still Paying for Mismanaged Project - https://t.co/VkYjbZSird @fitsnews

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SCANA Official in Charge of Construction of Failed V.C. Summer Nuclear Reactor Project in South Carolina to be Sentenced in Federal Court on March 8, 2023: https://t.co/RutBXDF7uk

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SRS Watch to again visit the Crackerneck Wildlife Management Area & Ecological Reserve, located on SRS & infrequently open. We'll also visit the nearby Audubon Silver Bluff Sanctuary. No SRS accidents on our visit! Site URLs: https://t.co/oJoXzIDmSv @SRSNews @NNSAHruby @NNSAnews