Aiken Group's March Meeting: "Savannah River Site: The Challenges Ahead"

The Aiken Group Sierra Club is hosting a special presentation, "Savannah River Site: The Challenges Ahead," with internationally renowned nuclear safety advocate and SRS Watch Director, Tom Clements, who will speak on current topics of importance at Savannah River Site, including waste management, nuclear imports, and the MOX project. http://photos1.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/8/b/c/600_458702236.jpeg

Clements' presentation will focus on the need to clean up existing nuclear materials at the site, rather than the ongoing import of more radioactive materials and waste. Central to this discussion is the controversial decision by the Department of Energy (DOE) to truck, over the next several years, some 6,000 gallons of highly radioactive liquid materials over America's roadways on the journey from from Ontario, Canada, to the SRS site in Aiken. The first of an estimated 100 to 150 shipments of this hazardous materials are slated to begin this spring.Attendees will have the opportunity after the meeting to sign a letter, to be mailed to our legislators, in opposition to nuclear imports.

About Tom Clements and SRS Watch:

Tom Clements, who serves as the director of Savannah River Site Watch, was born in Savannah, Georgia and attended Emory University and the University of Georgia, where he obtained a Masters in Forest Resources in 1977. He has worked for the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Office of Surface Mining and for the past 25 years has worked on nuclear issues for Greenpeace International, the Nuclear Control Institute, the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability (http://www.ananuclear.org/), Friends of the Earth, the South Carolina Chapter of the Sierra Club, and since January 2014 as the director of Savannah River Site Watch.

He lived over a decade in the Washington, DC area, where he worked on nuclear proliferation issues policy issues and has spoken and written on U.S. and international nuclear issues and has been quoted extensively by the media.
Clements monitors a host of energy and nuclear issues from a public interest perspective and has focused on the Department of Energy, with a specialty in DOE’s Savannah River Site (SRS) located in South Carolina. While monitoring various Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission projects, he focuses on risks associated with high-level nuclear waste and plutonium management at the Savannah River Site.

Tom is working to stop SRS from becoming a storage site for the nation's highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel from commercial power plants as well as leading an effort for Congress to defund the controversial plutonium fuel (MOX) program at the site.

Visit SRS Watch (http://www.srswatch.org)to learn more about local nuclear industry issues.