Program Coordinator Emma Sandifer wrote an op-ed in Georgia Recorder on the need for greater environmental oversight on the planned expansion of the Savannah River Site.
A nuclear weapons facility along the Georgia-South Carolina border is about to get a lot busier — but before billions of our tax dollars get spent, we need to ask some hard questions about its purpose and if adequate steps will be taken to prevent contamination of our water and natural resources for decades to come.
Earlier this month, the Biden administration released its annual budget request to Congress. Even as analysts continue to wade through the nearly 200-page document, the most shocking number is the cost increase related to the expanded plutonium bomb facility at the Savannah River Site (SRS), which more than doubled from an estimated $11 billion in 2021 to $25 billion. Read more
