Nuclear Security, Science & Energy, Environmental Stewardship
SRS has a long track record of being one of the safest sites in the DOE complex and one of the safest major industrial sites in the world. Protecting workers, the public, the environment and national security interests are our highest goals.
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Missions & Programs
Dedicated to maintaining the highest possible safety and security standards, the Savannah River Site (SRS) is a key U.S. Department of Energy industrial complex, responsible for supporting our nation’s nuclear defense; preventing nuclear weapon proliferation; environmental stewardship and cleanup; waste management; and disposition of nuclear materials.
Safety Programs
SRS is committed to its people, missions and the future. SRS has a long track record of being one of the safest sites in the DOE complex and one of the safest major industrial sites in the world. Protecting workers, the public, national security interests and the environment are our highest goals.
Environmental Stewardship
SRS is committed to ensuring that SRS activities are conducted in accordance with state and federal regulations while ensuring the safety of workers, the public and the environment.
SRNL
SRNL puts science to work to help protect our environment, secure our clean energy future, serve our national defense and reduce emerging nuclear threats. SRNL is one of 17 national laboratories, and it is the only national lab sponsored by the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management.
Waste Management
Waste management at SRS includes the safe disposition of both radioactive liquid waste and hazardous, sanitary, construction and demolition and transuranic solid waste.
Nuclear Deterrence
The purpose for establishing SRS in the 1950s was to support the nation’s nuclear deterrence and defense. Today, the Site continues to fulfill that purpose through the SRS Tritium facilities, construction of the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility, and preparing for the pit production mission.
Nuclear Nonproliferation
SRS is dedicated to the NNSA’s mission of safely managing and disposing of surplus weapons-grade materials. These efforts play a critical role in preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and reducing the threat of nuclear and radiological terrorism worldwide. SRS Nuclear Nonproliferation includes Surplus Plutonium Disposition Operations and Programs.
Nuclear Materials Storage and Management
The safe and secure storage, handling and permanent disposition of spent nuclear fuel and plutonium materials are long-standing missions at SRS.
Site tours provide an opportunity for those interested in SRS to better understand the Department of Energy’s facilities, missions, and workforce that changed the face of Aiken, Barnwell and Allendale Counties, nearby cities and helped win the Cold War.
Blast From The Past
Constructed during the early 1950s, the Savannah River Site, was built to produce the basic materials used in the fabrication of nuclear weapons, primarily tritium and plutonium-239, in support of our nation’s defense programs. Five reactors were built to produce these materials along with a number of support facilities including two chemical separations plants, a heavy water extraction plant, a nuclear fuel and target fabrication facility, a tritium extraction facility and waste management facilities.
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