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The Savannah River Site (SRS) is a nuclear reservation in the United States in the state of South Carolina, located on land in Aiken, Allendale and Barnwell Counties adjacent to the Savannah River, 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Augusta, Georgia. The site was built during the 1950s to refine nuclear materials for deployment in nuclear weapons. It covers 310 square miles (800 km2) and employs more than 10,000 people. The site is protected by G4S Secure Solutions.
It is owned by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The management and operating contract is held by Savannah River Nuclear Solutions LLC (SRNS), and the Liquid Waste Operations contract is held by Savannah River Remediation, which is a team of companies led by URS Corp. A major focus is cleanup activities related to work done in the past for American nuclear buildup. Currently none of the reactors on-site are operating (see list of nuclear reactors), although two of the reactor buildings are being used to consolidate and store nuclear materials. SRS is also home to the Savannah River National Laboratory and the USA's only operating radiochemical separations facility. Its tritium facilities are also the United States' only source of tritium, an essential component in nuclear weapons. The USA's only mixed oxide fuel (MOX) manufacturing plant is being constructed at SRS overseen by the National Nuclear Security Administration. When operational, the MOX facility will convert legacy weapons-grade plutonium into fuel suitable for commercial power reactors.
The Savannah River is a major river in the southeastern United States, forming most of the border between the states of South Carolina and Georgia. Two tributaries of the Savannah, the Tugaloo River and the Chattooga River, form the northernmost part of the border. The Savannah River drainage basin extends into the southeastern side of the Appalachian Mountains just inside North Carolina, bounded by the Eastern Continental Divide. The river is around 301 miles (484 km) long. It is formed by the confluence of the Tugaloo River and the Seneca River. Today this confluence is submerged beneath Lake Hartwell. The Tallulah Gorge is located on the Tallulah River, a tributary of the Tugaloo River that forms the northwest branch of the Savannah River.
Two major cities are located along the Savannah River: Savannah, and Augusta, Georgia. They were nuclei of early English settlements during the Colonial period of American history.
Through the building of several locks and dams, and upstream reservoirs like Lake Hartwell, also, the Savannah River was once navigable by freight barges between Augusta, Georgia (on the Fall Line) and the Atlantic Ocean; maintenance of this channel for commercial shipping ended in 1979, and the one lock below Augusta has been deactivated.
Remote Inspection of the H-Canyon Air Exhaust Tunnel A team with members from SRNL and SRNS works together to remotely inspect the integrity of the air exhaust tunnel of the H-Canyon Nuclear Chemicals Separations Plant using unmanned ground vehicles or remote robotic canyon crawlers.
The Savannah River Site Nuclear Production Complex (SRS) in South Carolina provided more than a third of the US weapons-grade plutonium, almost all tritium and other nuclear materials. Landfills of nuclear waste and poor management of production in the past, the inability to carry out the necessary clean-up measures led to widespread contamination of the territory. === ✓ Subscribe to the channel - there are many more new and exciting things ahead of you: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2w5-aN18XIDsDY_Xp2XVsw ===
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An overview of the Savannah River Site. This video contains footage shot before the COVID-19 Pandemic
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An overview of the Savannah River Site (SRS) focusing on "yesterday, today and tomorrow."
U.S. to pay SC $600M in settlement over remaining plutonium at Savannah River Site
The Savannah River Site is a nuclear site located in Aiken, South Carolina. This site houses some of the world's nuclear waste including massive amounts of weapons grade plutonium. Since the site contains such dangerous materials it should be highly protected. This video explores the difficulties in guarding the Savannah River Site as well as the deficiencies of the company hired to protect the substances.
A look beyond the barricades through a virtual tour of the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site.
An investigation of problems involving massive amounts of nuclear waste at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina.
The Savannah River Site (SRS) is a nuclear reservation in the United States in the state of South Carolina, located on land in Aiken, Allendale and Barnwell Counties adjacent to the Savannah River, 25 miles (40 km) southeast of Augusta, Georgia. The site was built during the 1950s to refine nuclear materials for deployment in nuclear weapons. It covers 310 square miles (800 km2) and employs more than 10,000 people. The site is protected by G4S Secure Solutions.
It is owned by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The management and operating contract is held by Savannah River Nuclear Solutions LLC (SRNS), and the Liquid Waste Operations contract is held by Savannah River Remediation, which is a team of companies led by URS Corp. A major focus is cleanup activities related to work done in the past for American nuclear buildup. Currently none of the reactors on-site are operating (see list of nuclear reactors), although two of the reactor buildings are being used to consolidate and store nuclear materials. SRS is also home to the Savannah River National Laboratory and the USA's only operating radiochemical separations facility. Its tritium facilities are also the United States' only source of tritium, an essential component in nuclear weapons. The USA's only mixed oxide fuel (MOX) manufacturing plant is being constructed at SRS overseen by the National Nuclear Security Administration. When operational, the MOX facility will convert legacy weapons-grade plutonium into fuel suitable for commercial power reactors.