South Carolina MOX facility as we said was the FAKE response to OBAMA-era START TREATY with RUSSIA-----the PRETENDING of nuclear disarmament when the goals were actually taking all those thousands of bombs with plutonium and repurpose for SPACE X space fuel. MOX survived long enough to receive tons of East Coast nuclear power plant waste and nuclear arsenal waste. Now comes the need to repurpose to SPACE X fuel----that is what TRUMP is now calling DILUTE AND DISPOSE. Plutonium diluted is just what global MINING CORPORATION ELON MUSK with SPACE X needs to for PLANETARY MINING of MARS.
No one knows this more than LINDSEY GRAHAM----a raging global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS----KNIGHTS OF MALTA.
This MOX FACILITY expands OAK RIDGE LAB from SMOKEY MOUNTAINS to South Carolina coast via Savannah River.
So, even before they start NUCLEAR PITS all around MOX are waiting for this TRUMP change to DILUTE AND 'DISPOSE'. DISPOSE means----we are going to give for FREE a trillion dollars worth of space fuel to PRIVATELY OWNED-----SPACE X-----a foreign corporation.
'2a. Introduction
(An initial sketch of this issue was sent to key congressional staff on November 25, 2019.)
LANL and NNSA have variously said LANL needs to hire 1,000 to 1,500 additional permanent staff for the 30 pits per year (ppy) pit mission. Dr. Kelly Beierschmitt, Deputy LANL Director: “We expect hiring to continue at that pace [500 net hires per year] for the next five years and with the pit production mission we expect 1,400 additional staff.” According to Kelly Cummins and John Michael, NNSA’s Program Executive Officer for Strategic Materials and Director, Plutonium Program Office respectively, to reach 30 ppy LANL will need to operate PF-4 with multiple production shifts and hire an additional 1,000 to 1,500 plutonium-related staff to do so (11/14/19 briefing for South Carolina Nuclear Advisory Council, especially here). Congressional staff independently confirmed the need for multiple production shifts to reach 30 ppy to the Study Group on 1/8/20'.
Both men here know the entirety of South Carolina-----mountain to coast will become a super-duper US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE -----environmentally devastated with no jobs.
'About this website
youtube.com
Graham Questions Secretary Moniz Regarding MOX Facility in South Carolina
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) questions Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz about the MOX facility at the Savannah River Site and its viability...'
'Modernization is expanded plutonium pit bomb core production, with 30 or more pits per year at LANL and 50 or more plutonium pits per year at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina'.
This TRUMP directive contradicts both the goals of START TREATY but as well all those FEDERAL DEPT OF ENERGY programs like LOS ALAMOS ----toxic nuclear waster cleanup programs in which almost absolutely NOTHING was done. Now, this SOUTH CAROLINA MOX as others will start processing plutonium waste by dilution staging it to be sent to SPACE X facilities to be used as LONG-DISTANCE SPACE TRAVEL FUEL----long-distance being MARS.
Below LOS ALAMOS lets 99% WE THE SOUTH CAROLINIANS know this MOX process contaminates all fresh water and river water it touches.
It is LANL’s nuclear weapons research and production programs that contaminated our ground water to begin with, and those programs are on the cusp of a dramatic expansion that will inevitably cause more contamination.
Here we see in NEW MEXICO the environmental agency is led by revolving door GAS AND OIL players.
LOTS OF CLEAN UP FUNDS FOR NUCLEAR WASTE ----NO CLEANUP. LOTS OF MONEY FOR MOX FACILITY---SPENT NUCLEAR WASTE BEING SHIPPED TO SPACE X.
903 W. Alameda #325, Santa Fe, NM 87501 • Voice and fax: 505.989.7342info@nukewatch.org
• www.nukewatch.org • http://www.nukewatch.org/watchblog/FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, February 12, 2020
Contact:Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch NM, 505.989.7342, jay@nukewatch.org
Los Alamos Lab Cleanup
Cut By 46%
Nuclear Weapons “Production Modernization” Jumps 57%
Santa Fe, NM –
The Trump Administration has released more budget information for fiscal year 2021 for the Department of Energy (DOE).
*It states that proposed cleanup at the Los Alamos Lab is “Consistent with the priorities established with the New Mexico Environment Department in the 2016 Consent Order...”It then goes on to cut LANL cleanup by $100 million from $220 million in FY 2020 to $120 million requested for FY 2021. (Pages52and 55)Early negotiations of NMED’s 2016 Consent Order were held by the former DOE head of Los Alamos cleanup and a LANL employee who became a New Mexico Environment Department(NMED) division director. After the 2016 Consent Order was signed both officials went to work for the same DOE contractor (Longnecker and Assoc.) who is now involved in both the LANL prime management and cleanup contracts. Under the Gov.Martinez Administration, at the Lab’s request, NMED granted more than 150 extensions to cleanup milestones stipulated in a stringent, enforceable 2005 Consent Order. The NMED Secretary, who later resigned to become Executive Director of the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association, then turned around and claimed that the earlier Consent Order wasn’t working. A crucial difference between the 2005 and 2016 Consent Orders is that the former Order was designed to make DOE and LANL get more cleanup money from Congress. In direct opposition, the 2016 Consent Order specifically states that DOE and NMED “shall meet to discuss the appropriation and any necessary revision to the forecast, e.g. DOE did not receive adequate appropriations from Congress...” In other words, cleanup at LANL is to be held hostage to DOE funding, when DOE’s own track record makes clear that its #1 priority is expanded nuclear weapons production paid for in part by cutting cleanup,nonproliferation and renewable energy programs.That has now dramatically come to pass with a proposed 46% cut to LANL cleanup
programs, which are critically needed to protect New Mexico’s precious water resources.The Labuse to claim that groundwater contamination was impossible, but we know now that our common groundwater aquifer is extensively contaminated from historical LANL operations. It is LANL’s nuclear weapons research and production programs that contaminated our ground water to begin with, and those programs are on the cusp of a dramatic expansion thatwill inevitably cause more contamination. Site-specific budget details are still lacking, but nation-wide nuclear weapons “Production Modernization” under DOE’s semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is slated for a huge 57% jump, up from $1.6 billion in FY 2020 to $2.5 billion requested for FY 2021. (P. 60)The #1 priority within Production Modernization is expanded plutonium pit bomb core production, with 30 or more pits per year at LANL and 50 or more plutonium pits per year at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
_________________________________________________
'Trimble of the GAO believes the Energy Department "does not have a coherent strategic plan on how to address its cleanup mission."'
FAILED ENGINEERING for these super-fund cleanup sites having hundreds of billions of dollars spent these few decades having absolutely no impact. The goal is not CLEANUP----the goal was always REPURPOSING-----and TRUMP is installing these plans written during OBAMA era.
THIS IS CALLED 'GREEN' POLICY -----turning spent nuclear waste into SPACE X FUEL. SPACE X of course gets the FUEL and it gets all kinds of GREEN ENERGY SUBSIDIES/CREDITS.
So, in South Carolina the MOX on Savannah River will run OAK RIDGE nuclear waste as well as that nuclear waste already collected. Lots and lots and lots of PITS.
'The Energy Department's projected cost for cleanup jumped from $383.78 billion in 2017 to $493.96 billion in a financial report issued in December 2018'.
ROCKY FLATS in native land tied to UNESCO you know they are preserving culture and natural wonders
'Plutonium Pit Production - Energy.gov
www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2019/05/f62/2019...
May 13, 2019 · A plutonium pit is a key component of a nuclear weapon. During the Cold War, the United States produced approximately 1,000 pits per year at the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado. Rocky Flats was closed in 1992 and today the United States does not have the capability to manufacture new pits at the rate needed to maintain the nuclear deterrent.
NWNM | U.S. Plutonium Pit Manufacturing
nukewatch.org/facts/nwd/pits.html
Mar 01, 2008 · Plutonium pits are the triggers that are at the heart of modern thermonuclear weapons. The U.S. lost the capability to produce plutonium pits for its nuclear weapons stockpile in 1989 after a raid by the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigating alleged environmental crimes at the Rocky Flats Plant near Denver, Colorado'.
Cost to taxpayers to clean up nuclear waste jumps $100 billion in a year
An Energy Department report shows the projected cost for long-term nuclear waste cleanup overseen by DOE jumped $100 billion in just one year.
Jan. 29, 2019, 4:42 AM EST
By Laura StricklerWASHINGTON — The estimated cost of cleaning up America's nuclear waste has jumped more than $100 billion in just one year, according to a DOE report — and a watchdog warns the cost may climb still higher.
The Energy Department's projected cost for cleanup jumped from $383.78 billion in 2017 to $493.96 billion in a financial report issued in December 2018.
A government watchdog and DOE expert said the new total may still underestimate the full cost of cleanup, which is expected to last another 50 years. "We believe the number is growing and we believe the number is understated," said David Trimble, director of the Government Accountability Office's Natural Resources and Environment team.
Nuclear reactors line the riverbank at the Hanford Site along the Columbia River in January 1960. The N Reactor is in the foreground, with the twin KE and KW Reactors in the immediate background. The historic B Reactor, the world's first plutonium production reactor, is visible in the distance.Department of Energy
The cost was calculated by the accounting firm KPMG under contract to DOE.
Eighty percent of the increase comes from new projections of the costs of cleaning up radioactive waste and hazardous chemicals at the Hanford site in southeastern Washington.
The 586-square-mile site, home to nine former production reactors and processing facilities, produced plutonium for America's nuclear arsenal during the Cold War.
Cleaning up Hanford has already cost taxpayers $170 billion over 30 years, but government auditors say the most challenging parts of the clean-up work are yet to be done.
Still not cleaned up are 56 million gallons of what the DOE's inspector general has described as "hazardous and highly radioactive waste." The rise in projected cost is due to updated estimates for building and running a waste treatment plant, including "operating costs, tank farm retrieval and closure costs" at the site, according to the report. The report also refers to changes in "technical approach or scope" and "updated estimates of projected waste volumes."
Trimble of the GAO believes the Energy Department "does not have a coherent strategic plan on how to address its cleanup mission."
A spokesperson for the Energy Department said in an emailed statement that the office that oversees the cleanup is "committed to making progress on the ground at Hanford, and mitigating the years of escalating liabilities at the site."
The spokesperson said DOE expects more cost increases "and is working with regulators and stakeholders on best options to treat and dispose of radioactive waste."
Energy Secretary Rick Perry has proposed a reclassification of the radioactive waste at Hanford to make its disposal less expensive, a suggestion opposed by environmental groups in the Pacific Northwest.
In mid-December, DOE issued a financial report with a signed letter from U.S. Energy Department Secretary Rick Perry on the fourth page. Perry's letter lists the agency's accomplishments and describes the agency's environmental cleanup activities. He cited the completion of an underground project at Hanford, but does not mention the projected increase in costs to taxpayers.
A chart tucked into the Department of Energy's annual financial report estimates the cost of cleaning up America's nuclear waste jumped by more than $100 billion in one year.
Department of Energy
"Plagued with mismanagement"
For decades, government auditors have raised serious concerns about the lack of clear goals for the site and long term problems with the cleanup.
A 2018 report from the DOE's inspector general rolled up 38 investigations the IG had conducted on the environmental management efforts at Hanford.
The IG concluded Hanford has been "plagued with mismanagement, poor internal controls, and fraudulent activities, resulting in monetary impacts totalling hundreds of millions of dollars by the various contractors at the site."
Bechtel, one of the large government contractors that manages site cleanup, was part of a group of contractors that paid a $125 million settlement in 2016, the largest settlement ever obtained by the agency's inspector general.
The U.S. had alleged Bechtel improperly used federal taxpayer dollars to fund a multi-year lobbying effort in Congress to continue the funding of its contract.
_____________________________________________
Below we see just that DILUTED PLUTONIUM processed for these SPACE X deep space fuel rockets.
NTREES facilities will be the destination for TRUMP's new approach to the FAKE START TREATY nuclear disarmament agreement. Remember, we have said for these few decades RUSSIA/US did not have a COLD WAR----it was WORLD BANK simply gathering all the world's plutonium stored as bombs----that is why both nations had MILLIONS far more than needed for COLD WAR. RUSSIA has done the same with its START TREATY nuclear bomb waste. Both are now manufacturing new technology MILITARY NUCLEAR BOMBS.
'The NTREES test facility -- housed at the Marshall Space Flight Center -- safely tests simulated nuclear fuel elements, which reduce risk and costs associated with advanced propulsion technologies. Such technology could propel human explorers on deep-space exploration more efficiently than conventional spacecraft while reducing crew exposure to the harmful space environment.
Image credit: NASA/MSFC/Emmett Given
Last Updated: Aug. 7, 2017
Editor: Lee Mohon'
Below we see SMOKEY MOUNTAIN OAK RIDGE.
Getting FREE SPACE FUEL from millions of taxpayer-funded NUCLEAR BOMBS----is indeed COST-SAVING.
'Marshall researchers are partnering on the research with NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio; NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston; NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi; Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls; Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico; and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee'
CNN----that CAN'T KNOW NUTTIN NEWS NETWORK will have PUTIN/RUSSIA declaring war because of these TRUMP changes to START TREATY goals ----no doubt
.
youtube.com
NERVA - Nuclear Rocket Engine
NASA and Atomic Energy Commission test a nuclear rocket at the Nuclear…
NASA and Atomic Energy Commission test a nuclear rocket at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station in Nevada. Via Wikipedia: NERVA is an acronym for Nuclear E...
If NASA was still a PUBLIC NATIONAL SPACE AGENCY and program and not PRIVATIZED to global banking 1% MINING CORPORATIONS------the pretense of COLD WAR between RUSSIA and US as reason for millions of NUCLEAR BOMBS stored for future use as SPACE FUEL---would be as bad----although the environmental devastation was huge.
GLOBAL MINING AS NASA --------GETS ALL THAT URANIUM/PLUTONIUM AND THE US GETS ALL THAT TOXIC WASTE DUMP ---DON'T WORRY THE NUCLEAR DECAY WILL ELIMINATE ALL THAT TOXICITY IN NEXT MILLENNIUM
'Russia-US Partnership in Space is Stronger than Ever, says ...
www.fort-russ.com/2018/11/russia-us-partnership...
Nov 16, 2018 · International partnerships are very important in fulfilling space missions like ISS, Bridenstine completed. Astronaut training for the ISS has begun, the media reported earlier in the day. Russian Oleg Kononeko, Canadian David Saint-Jacques and American Anne McClain are part of the training'.
The violations are simply the testing of new nuclear weapons arsenal.
'Russia-US Partnership in Space is Stronger than Ever, says ...
www.fort-russ.com/2018/11/russia-us-partnership...
Nov 16, 2018 · International partnerships are very important in fulfilling space missions like ISS, Bridenstine completed. Astronaut training for the ISS has begun, the media reported earlier in the day. Russian Oleg Kononeko, Canadian David Saint-Jacques and American Anne McClain are part of the training'.
'Putin Claims U.S. Seeks to Break a Landmark Nuclear Treaty ...
www.polygraph.info/a/putin-says-us-wants-to...
Dec 22, 2017 · The claim is misleading and ignores Russia’s treaty violations. Russian President Vladimir Putin made the new accusation speaking at a session of the Russian Ministry of Defense on December 22, adding that “the target-missiles used to test its antiballistic missile systems are identical to intermediate-range and shorter-range ballistic missiles.”
Putin moves to leave weapons treaty as US accuses Russia of ...
www.cnn.com/2019/05/30/politics/us-claim-russia...
May 30, 2019 · Washington (CNN)The arms control framework curbing a US-Russian arms race came under further strain this week as Russian President Vladimir Putin took formal steps to withdraw from a landmark nuclear missile treaty and the US charged that Moscow is violating a separate pact that bans all nuclear explosions.
INF nuclear treaty: Russia follows US in suspending pact ...
www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47101429
President Vladimir Putin said Russia would start developing new missiles. On Friday, the US, which has long accused Russia of violating the treaty, formally announced it was suspending its ...
Putin: U.S. Violated the INF Treaty While Attempting to Pin ...
www.polygraph.info/a/putin-says-us-violates-inf...
Dec 14, 2017 · The claim is misleading and ignores Russia’s treaty violations. During a televised annual news conference on December 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that the United States violated and "de facto" left the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) amid ongoing propaganda campaign in the United States to exit the treaty de jure'.
Good thing deBeers won't have to pay for the cost of SPACE X planetary mining FUEL
'SpaceX Partners with De Beers to Pursue New Lunar ...
www.vortexglobal.com/spacex-partners-de-beers...
Apr 01, 2018 · Initially, SpaceX and De Beers will perform open pit mining to gather spinels which are currently exposed at the craters’ surface. Because craters are naturally occurring open pits, SpaceX and De Beers intend to investigate these areas first to save on equipment costs and to lessen the environmental impact of mining operations'.
No one knows this more than LINDSEY GRAHAM----a raging global banking 1% OLD WORLD KINGS----KNIGHTS OF MALTA.
This MOX FACILITY expands OAK RIDGE LAB from SMOKEY MOUNTAINS to South Carolina coast via Savannah River.
So, even before they start NUCLEAR PITS all around MOX are waiting for this TRUMP change to DILUTE AND 'DISPOSE'. DISPOSE means----we are going to give for FREE a trillion dollars worth of space fuel to PRIVATELY OWNED-----SPACE X-----a foreign corporation.
'2a. Introduction
(An initial sketch of this issue was sent to key congressional staff on November 25, 2019.)
LANL and NNSA have variously said LANL needs to hire 1,000 to 1,500 additional permanent staff for the 30 pits per year (ppy) pit mission. Dr. Kelly Beierschmitt, Deputy LANL Director: “We expect hiring to continue at that pace [500 net hires per year] for the next five years and with the pit production mission we expect 1,400 additional staff.” According to Kelly Cummins and John Michael, NNSA’s Program Executive Officer for Strategic Materials and Director, Plutonium Program Office respectively, to reach 30 ppy LANL will need to operate PF-4 with multiple production shifts and hire an additional 1,000 to 1,500 plutonium-related staff to do so (11/14/19 briefing for South Carolina Nuclear Advisory Council, especially here). Congressional staff independently confirmed the need for multiple production shifts to reach 30 ppy to the Study Group on 1/8/20'.
Both men here know the entirety of South Carolina-----mountain to coast will become a super-duper US FOREIGN ECONOMIC ZONE -----environmentally devastated with no jobs.
'About this website
youtube.com
Graham Questions Secretary Moniz Regarding MOX Facility in South Carolina
U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) questions Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz about the MOX facility at the Savannah River Site and its viability...'
'Modernization is expanded plutonium pit bomb core production, with 30 or more pits per year at LANL and 50 or more plutonium pits per year at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina'.
This TRUMP directive contradicts both the goals of START TREATY but as well all those FEDERAL DEPT OF ENERGY programs like LOS ALAMOS ----toxic nuclear waster cleanup programs in which almost absolutely NOTHING was done. Now, this SOUTH CAROLINA MOX as others will start processing plutonium waste by dilution staging it to be sent to SPACE X facilities to be used as LONG-DISTANCE SPACE TRAVEL FUEL----long-distance being MARS.
Below LOS ALAMOS lets 99% WE THE SOUTH CAROLINIANS know this MOX process contaminates all fresh water and river water it touches.
It is LANL’s nuclear weapons research and production programs that contaminated our ground water to begin with, and those programs are on the cusp of a dramatic expansion that will inevitably cause more contamination.
Here we see in NEW MEXICO the environmental agency is led by revolving door GAS AND OIL players.
LOTS OF CLEAN UP FUNDS FOR NUCLEAR WASTE ----NO CLEANUP. LOTS OF MONEY FOR MOX FACILITY---SPENT NUCLEAR WASTE BEING SHIPPED TO SPACE X.
903 W. Alameda #325, Santa Fe, NM 87501 • Voice and fax: 505.989.7342info@nukewatch.org
• www.nukewatch.org • http://www.nukewatch.org/watchblog/FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, February 12, 2020
Contact:Jay Coghlan, Nuclear Watch NM, 505.989.7342, jay@nukewatch.org
Los Alamos Lab Cleanup
Cut By 46%
Nuclear Weapons “Production Modernization” Jumps 57%
Santa Fe, NM –
The Trump Administration has released more budget information for fiscal year 2021 for the Department of Energy (DOE).
*It states that proposed cleanup at the Los Alamos Lab is “Consistent with the priorities established with the New Mexico Environment Department in the 2016 Consent Order...”It then goes on to cut LANL cleanup by $100 million from $220 million in FY 2020 to $120 million requested for FY 2021. (Pages52and 55)Early negotiations of NMED’s 2016 Consent Order were held by the former DOE head of Los Alamos cleanup and a LANL employee who became a New Mexico Environment Department(NMED) division director. After the 2016 Consent Order was signed both officials went to work for the same DOE contractor (Longnecker and Assoc.) who is now involved in both the LANL prime management and cleanup contracts. Under the Gov.Martinez Administration, at the Lab’s request, NMED granted more than 150 extensions to cleanup milestones stipulated in a stringent, enforceable 2005 Consent Order. The NMED Secretary, who later resigned to become Executive Director of the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association, then turned around and claimed that the earlier Consent Order wasn’t working. A crucial difference between the 2005 and 2016 Consent Orders is that the former Order was designed to make DOE and LANL get more cleanup money from Congress. In direct opposition, the 2016 Consent Order specifically states that DOE and NMED “shall meet to discuss the appropriation and any necessary revision to the forecast, e.g. DOE did not receive adequate appropriations from Congress...” In other words, cleanup at LANL is to be held hostage to DOE funding, when DOE’s own track record makes clear that its #1 priority is expanded nuclear weapons production paid for in part by cutting cleanup,nonproliferation and renewable energy programs.That has now dramatically come to pass with a proposed 46% cut to LANL cleanup
programs, which are critically needed to protect New Mexico’s precious water resources.The Labuse to claim that groundwater contamination was impossible, but we know now that our common groundwater aquifer is extensively contaminated from historical LANL operations. It is LANL’s nuclear weapons research and production programs that contaminated our ground water to begin with, and those programs are on the cusp of a dramatic expansion thatwill inevitably cause more contamination. Site-specific budget details are still lacking, but nation-wide nuclear weapons “Production Modernization” under DOE’s semi-autonomous National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is slated for a huge 57% jump, up from $1.6 billion in FY 2020 to $2.5 billion requested for FY 2021. (P. 60)The #1 priority within Production Modernization is expanded plutonium pit bomb core production, with 30 or more pits per year at LANL and 50 or more plutonium pits per year at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
_________________________________________________
'Trimble of the GAO believes the Energy Department "does not have a coherent strategic plan on how to address its cleanup mission."'
FAILED ENGINEERING for these super-fund cleanup sites having hundreds of billions of dollars spent these few decades having absolutely no impact. The goal is not CLEANUP----the goal was always REPURPOSING-----and TRUMP is installing these plans written during OBAMA era.
THIS IS CALLED 'GREEN' POLICY -----turning spent nuclear waste into SPACE X FUEL. SPACE X of course gets the FUEL and it gets all kinds of GREEN ENERGY SUBSIDIES/CREDITS.
So, in South Carolina the MOX on Savannah River will run OAK RIDGE nuclear waste as well as that nuclear waste already collected. Lots and lots and lots of PITS.
'The Energy Department's projected cost for cleanup jumped from $383.78 billion in 2017 to $493.96 billion in a financial report issued in December 2018'.
ROCKY FLATS in native land tied to UNESCO you know they are preserving culture and natural wonders
'Plutonium Pit Production - Energy.gov
www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2019/05/f62/2019...
May 13, 2019 · A plutonium pit is a key component of a nuclear weapon. During the Cold War, the United States produced approximately 1,000 pits per year at the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado. Rocky Flats was closed in 1992 and today the United States does not have the capability to manufacture new pits at the rate needed to maintain the nuclear deterrent.
NWNM | U.S. Plutonium Pit Manufacturing
nukewatch.org/facts/nwd/pits.html
Mar 01, 2008 · Plutonium pits are the triggers that are at the heart of modern thermonuclear weapons. The U.S. lost the capability to produce plutonium pits for its nuclear weapons stockpile in 1989 after a raid by the Federal Bureau of Investigation investigating alleged environmental crimes at the Rocky Flats Plant near Denver, Colorado'.
Cost to taxpayers to clean up nuclear waste jumps $100 billion in a year
An Energy Department report shows the projected cost for long-term nuclear waste cleanup overseen by DOE jumped $100 billion in just one year.
Jan. 29, 2019, 4:42 AM EST
By Laura StricklerWASHINGTON — The estimated cost of cleaning up America's nuclear waste has jumped more than $100 billion in just one year, according to a DOE report — and a watchdog warns the cost may climb still higher.
The Energy Department's projected cost for cleanup jumped from $383.78 billion in 2017 to $493.96 billion in a financial report issued in December 2018.
A government watchdog and DOE expert said the new total may still underestimate the full cost of cleanup, which is expected to last another 50 years. "We believe the number is growing and we believe the number is understated," said David Trimble, director of the Government Accountability Office's Natural Resources and Environment team.
Nuclear reactors line the riverbank at the Hanford Site along the Columbia River in January 1960. The N Reactor is in the foreground, with the twin KE and KW Reactors in the immediate background. The historic B Reactor, the world's first plutonium production reactor, is visible in the distance.Department of Energy
The cost was calculated by the accounting firm KPMG under contract to DOE.
Eighty percent of the increase comes from new projections of the costs of cleaning up radioactive waste and hazardous chemicals at the Hanford site in southeastern Washington.
The 586-square-mile site, home to nine former production reactors and processing facilities, produced plutonium for America's nuclear arsenal during the Cold War.
Cleaning up Hanford has already cost taxpayers $170 billion over 30 years, but government auditors say the most challenging parts of the clean-up work are yet to be done.
Still not cleaned up are 56 million gallons of what the DOE's inspector general has described as "hazardous and highly radioactive waste." The rise in projected cost is due to updated estimates for building and running a waste treatment plant, including "operating costs, tank farm retrieval and closure costs" at the site, according to the report. The report also refers to changes in "technical approach or scope" and "updated estimates of projected waste volumes."
Trimble of the GAO believes the Energy Department "does not have a coherent strategic plan on how to address its cleanup mission."
A spokesperson for the Energy Department said in an emailed statement that the office that oversees the cleanup is "committed to making progress on the ground at Hanford, and mitigating the years of escalating liabilities at the site."
The spokesperson said DOE expects more cost increases "and is working with regulators and stakeholders on best options to treat and dispose of radioactive waste."
Energy Secretary Rick Perry has proposed a reclassification of the radioactive waste at Hanford to make its disposal less expensive, a suggestion opposed by environmental groups in the Pacific Northwest.
In mid-December, DOE issued a financial report with a signed letter from U.S. Energy Department Secretary Rick Perry on the fourth page. Perry's letter lists the agency's accomplishments and describes the agency's environmental cleanup activities. He cited the completion of an underground project at Hanford, but does not mention the projected increase in costs to taxpayers.
A chart tucked into the Department of Energy's annual financial report estimates the cost of cleaning up America's nuclear waste jumped by more than $100 billion in one year.
Department of Energy
"Plagued with mismanagement"
For decades, government auditors have raised serious concerns about the lack of clear goals for the site and long term problems with the cleanup.
A 2018 report from the DOE's inspector general rolled up 38 investigations the IG had conducted on the environmental management efforts at Hanford.
The IG concluded Hanford has been "plagued with mismanagement, poor internal controls, and fraudulent activities, resulting in monetary impacts totalling hundreds of millions of dollars by the various contractors at the site."
Bechtel, one of the large government contractors that manages site cleanup, was part of a group of contractors that paid a $125 million settlement in 2016, the largest settlement ever obtained by the agency's inspector general.
The U.S. had alleged Bechtel improperly used federal taxpayer dollars to fund a multi-year lobbying effort in Congress to continue the funding of its contract.
_____________________________________________
Below we see just that DILUTED PLUTONIUM processed for these SPACE X deep space fuel rockets.
NTREES facilities will be the destination for TRUMP's new approach to the FAKE START TREATY nuclear disarmament agreement. Remember, we have said for these few decades RUSSIA/US did not have a COLD WAR----it was WORLD BANK simply gathering all the world's plutonium stored as bombs----that is why both nations had MILLIONS far more than needed for COLD WAR. RUSSIA has done the same with its START TREATY nuclear bomb waste. Both are now manufacturing new technology MILITARY NUCLEAR BOMBS.
'The NTREES test facility -- housed at the Marshall Space Flight Center -- safely tests simulated nuclear fuel elements, which reduce risk and costs associated with advanced propulsion technologies. Such technology could propel human explorers on deep-space exploration more efficiently than conventional spacecraft while reducing crew exposure to the harmful space environment.
Image credit: NASA/MSFC/Emmett Given
Last Updated: Aug. 7, 2017
Editor: Lee Mohon'
Below we see SMOKEY MOUNTAIN OAK RIDGE.
Getting FREE SPACE FUEL from millions of taxpayer-funded NUCLEAR BOMBS----is indeed COST-SAVING.
'Marshall researchers are partnering on the research with NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio; NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston; NASA's Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi; Idaho National Laboratory in Idaho Falls; Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, New Mexico; and Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee'
CNN----that CAN'T KNOW NUTTIN NEWS NETWORK will have PUTIN/RUSSIA declaring war because of these TRUMP changes to START TREATY goals ----no doubt
.
youtube.com
NERVA - Nuclear Rocket Engine
NASA and Atomic Energy Commission test a nuclear rocket at the Nuclear…
NASA and Atomic Energy Commission test a nuclear rocket at the Nuclear Rocket Development Station in Nevada. Via Wikipedia: NERVA is an acronym for Nuclear E...
If NASA was still a PUBLIC NATIONAL SPACE AGENCY and program and not PRIVATIZED to global banking 1% MINING CORPORATIONS------the pretense of COLD WAR between RUSSIA and US as reason for millions of NUCLEAR BOMBS stored for future use as SPACE FUEL---would be as bad----although the environmental devastation was huge.
GLOBAL MINING AS NASA --------GETS ALL THAT URANIUM/PLUTONIUM AND THE US GETS ALL THAT TOXIC WASTE DUMP ---DON'T WORRY THE NUCLEAR DECAY WILL ELIMINATE ALL THAT TOXICITY IN NEXT MILLENNIUM
'Russia-US Partnership in Space is Stronger than Ever, says ...
www.fort-russ.com/2018/11/russia-us-partnership...
Nov 16, 2018 · International partnerships are very important in fulfilling space missions like ISS, Bridenstine completed. Astronaut training for the ISS has begun, the media reported earlier in the day. Russian Oleg Kononeko, Canadian David Saint-Jacques and American Anne McClain are part of the training'.
The violations are simply the testing of new nuclear weapons arsenal.
'Russia-US Partnership in Space is Stronger than Ever, says ...
www.fort-russ.com/2018/11/russia-us-partnership...
Nov 16, 2018 · International partnerships are very important in fulfilling space missions like ISS, Bridenstine completed. Astronaut training for the ISS has begun, the media reported earlier in the day. Russian Oleg Kononeko, Canadian David Saint-Jacques and American Anne McClain are part of the training'.
'Putin Claims U.S. Seeks to Break a Landmark Nuclear Treaty ...
www.polygraph.info/a/putin-says-us-wants-to...
Dec 22, 2017 · The claim is misleading and ignores Russia’s treaty violations. Russian President Vladimir Putin made the new accusation speaking at a session of the Russian Ministry of Defense on December 22, adding that “the target-missiles used to test its antiballistic missile systems are identical to intermediate-range and shorter-range ballistic missiles.”
Putin moves to leave weapons treaty as US accuses Russia of ...
www.cnn.com/2019/05/30/politics/us-claim-russia...
May 30, 2019 · Washington (CNN)The arms control framework curbing a US-Russian arms race came under further strain this week as Russian President Vladimir Putin took formal steps to withdraw from a landmark nuclear missile treaty and the US charged that Moscow is violating a separate pact that bans all nuclear explosions.
INF nuclear treaty: Russia follows US in suspending pact ...
www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-47101429
President Vladimir Putin said Russia would start developing new missiles. On Friday, the US, which has long accused Russia of violating the treaty, formally announced it was suspending its ...
Putin: U.S. Violated the INF Treaty While Attempting to Pin ...
www.polygraph.info/a/putin-says-us-violates-inf...
Dec 14, 2017 · The claim is misleading and ignores Russia’s treaty violations. During a televised annual news conference on December 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that the United States violated and "de facto" left the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) amid ongoing propaganda campaign in the United States to exit the treaty de jure'.
Good thing deBeers won't have to pay for the cost of SPACE X planetary mining FUEL
'SpaceX Partners with De Beers to Pursue New Lunar ...
www.vortexglobal.com/spacex-partners-de-beers...
Apr 01, 2018 · Initially, SpaceX and De Beers will perform open pit mining to gather spinels which are currently exposed at the craters’ surface. Because craters are naturally occurring open pits, SpaceX and De Beers intend to investigate these areas first to save on equipment costs and to lessen the environmental impact of mining operations'.
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