Thursday, March 8
1:30 p.m.
209 Gressette building
Columbia

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The agenda includes:

• SRS update, by Jeff Allison, DOE manager for SRS
• Salt Waste Processing
• K-Area activities (which would include plutonium vitrification and Pu storage)
• Tritum activities (Tritium Extraction Facaility, for bombs, just started up)
• MOX project
• Public comments

The meeting would be a good time to ask such questions as:

• Is DOE planning to reprocess the research reactor spent fuel stored at SRS? (Recent budget states this.) What would be the impact to the HLW waste tanks?
• If GNEP is cited at SRS what would be the impact to HLW waste storage and processing?
• When will DOE issue the EIS announcement for plutonium vitrification? (The FY 2008 budget has something like $15 million it in for the Pu vit project.)
• When does DOE anticipate starting construction of the MOX plant?
• Given that Congress has withheld funds for the MOX plant construction until at least after August 1 and there is a possibility that MOX will go down, is DOE considering an all-vitrification option? Given the funding freeze for "construction activities" have "site preparation" activities for the MOX plant likewise halted? (I'm guessing not...)
• Are more plutonium shipments from Hanford expected soon?

Committee members are interested in who attends and will likely seek you out. Put your comments in writing. Dont forget call-in day on March 5th. For more information go to www.climateaction.net/scascc,

Call Governor Sanford to thank him for taking action on climate change via study commission but that nuclear is NOT the solution! call the Governor at .*803-734-2100.*

Thanks to Tom Clements and to Whit Ashley (South Carolina Alliance for Sustainable Campuses and Communities ) for this information.