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“Nuclear watchdogs seek answers on plutonium pit need before comment deadline”

Georgia Public Broadcasting (GPB), July 16, 2026 8:42 AM, By Jillian Magtoto

https://www.gpb.org/news/2026/07/16/nuclear-watchdogs-seek-answers-on-plutonium-pit-need-comment-deadline

For the first time since the 80s,

“The End of Another Surplus Plutonium Disposition Program”

“The Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has put the brakes on the surplus plutonium Dilute and Dispose program and reassigned K-Area surplus plutonium processing capabilities to the plutonium pit production defense mission.

“Consequence Analysis of Major Fires at Plutonium Pit Production Facilities”

Science & Global Security journal, July 10, 2026

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08929882.2026.2690796

Abstract

As the United States reestablishes large-scale plutonium pit production,

Environmental Protections Under Attack: The NRC’s New NEPA Rule

by Lynda Williams

“After more than a year of sweeping deregulation at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) aimed at paving the way for accelerated deployment of so-called “advanced” reactors,

No new plutonium pits!

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is aggressively expanding the production of plutonium pits,

Oppose planning for nuclear war!  Get your comments in on the plutonium pit draft Programmatic EIS (PEIS) about production of of up to 205 plutonium cores per year at the Savannah River Site and Los Alamos National Lab,

“Senator Markey Decries Security Concerns, Conflicts of Interest with Trump Proposal to Give Weapons-Usable Plutonium to Private Companies”

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Washington (June 2, 2026) – Senator Edward J.

 

Just how much uranium, in the form of fuel pellets, went down the drain at the Westinghouse Fuel Fabrication facility near Columbia, South Carolina?  The company reports no criticality risk but the U.S.

Photo: Plutonium puck produced in “defense” reactors at the DOE’s Savannah River Site. SRS produced about 36 metric tons of weapons-grade plutonium in 5 reactors, which were all closed by 1990.

 

Kansas City Nuclear Bomb Parts Honeywell Campus | Photo via National Security Campus & Dept. of Energy

“Kansas City: Inside America’s Nuclear Weapons Capital,

“Peace Through Atomic Strength” Я US!?  Or….
Or is a better descriptor of what the DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is doing with it’s rushed plutonium-pit production program, for new,

Comment for the New Mexico Environment Department’s “Record of the WIPP Agency-Initiated
Modification Draft Permit of April 23, 2026”

(The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant –

 

One-stop website with the news this week on the tour of the SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant on April 21 by public interest groups & the news briefing at the S.C.

“Impacts of plutonium pit production at Savannah River Site unveiled”

Savannah Morning News, April 20, 2026

The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) released its draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for national production of up to 205 plutonium pits per year (ppy) on April 10.

DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) has released the “Performance Evaluation Report” (PER) for the work in Fiscal Year 2025 of the SRS plutonium Bomb Plant contractor, Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS),

DOE’s “Nuclear Security Enterprise” – Yes, it’s a busine$$ enterprise
“Assessments of NNSA Major Projects”
Government Accountability Office – GAO-26-107777, February 26, 2026

GAO observes that the SRS Plutonium Bomb Plant operation has slipped to 2035 and is likely to slip further and that costs are soaring,

Reports by the Department of Energy and the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) Reveal Near-Disastrous Worker Incident while Hydo-Blasting with a Robot through a Thick Concrete Wall at the MOX-to-Pit-Plant Project with a High Pressure Water Jet

The dodgy legacy grows of the SRS once-was-MOX plant and now Wanna-be Plutonium Bomb Plant,

Gearing up for public comments on the plutonium-pit-production draft Programmatic EIS, likely coming in May 2026:

Every Day, Nukes Are Riding Right Past People Like You

The United States government ships its nuclear materials,

Nuclear Hotseat, 7428 Valaho Drive, Los Angeles, CA 91042

podcast: https://www.nuclearhotseat.com/podcast/savannah-river-site-nuclear-weapons/

SC’s Savannah River Site & the Dept of Energy’s Nuclear Weapons Pit Push –
Tom Clements,

“LANL Prioritizes Plutonium “Pit” Bomb Core Production Over Safety”

News release from Nuclear Watch New Mexico, November 6, 2025:  https://nukewatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/LANL-Prioritizes-Plutonium-Pit-Bomb-Core-Production-Over-Safety.pdf

Santa Fe,

Brookfield Assets picked to take over failed VC Summer nuclear project

By Lucy Valeski and Sammy Fretwell – October 25, 2025. The State, Columbia, SC

In the same office where a massive nuclear project was abandoned eight years ago,

“U.S. Dept. of Energy steps up plutonium pit manufacturing at Savannah River Site”

“The site is part of the nation’s effort of “re-establishing capabilities retired after the Cold War,”

“Pledge to Be a Voice for Peace and Science”

– from the Union of Concerned Scientist on the plutonium pit Programmatic EIS (that we won via federal lawsuit) –

 

Why are they doing this now and not until after the court-mandated Programmatic EIS has been finished?  A draft of that document, on all impacts of plutonium pit production at all DOE sites,

A bad idea (or is it a scam?!): “White House could tap plutonium reserves for nuclear fuel” – ExchangeMonitor article, August 29, 2025

A repeat of the plutonium fuel (MOX) boondoggle at SRS…?

Hiroshima vigil on 80th anniversary of the bombing, August 6, 2025, Columbia, SC, 6:30 p.m.

SRS Watch will be there

The radioactive wasps are harbingers of bigger problems at SRS: massive amounts of high-level nuclear waste, site contamination, a shift to plutonium pit production (requiring shipment of and the dangerous processing of plutonium) and a DOE facility that just can’t be honest with the public.

Head’s up!  A nest of radioactive wasps was recently discovered in one of the high-level waste tank areas at SRS!

Does this indicate a new type of killer wasp is on the loose?