GA SR988

Georgia Senate urges U.S. Congress and the Georgia congressional delegation to immediately cancel the proposed plutonium pit production facility at the Savannah River Site (SRS)

SRS contains approximately 35 million gallons of radioactively contaminated industrial waste solvents in aging underground tanks, representing the largest amount of radioactive waste at any U.S. nuclear weapons site

NNSA is currently drafting a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for plutonium pit production at SRS, with public comment hearings scheduled for 2026

Four Georgia counties (Burke, Screven, Effingham, and Chatham) lie directly downstream from SRS on the Savannah River, and radionuclides from SRS have been detected in Georgia water, soil, vegetation, air, milk, fish, and wildlife

Plutonium has a radioactive half-life of 24,000 years and is associated with increased cancer deaths among occupationally exposed workers