NH #750!: SC’s Savannah River Site & the Dept of Nuclear Weapons, uh, Energy – Tom Clements, SRS Watch + 750 NH Episodes!
This Week’s Featured Interview:
Tom Clements has been the director of Savannah River Site Watch, a public interest organization in Columbia, South Carolina, since 2014. SRS Watch monitors US Department of Energy management of weapon-usable materials, nuclear weapons production, and clean-up of high-level nuclear waste, with a focus on the Savannah River Site. While in senior positions at Greenpeace International, the Nuclear Control Institute, the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, and Friends of the Earth, Clements concentrated on international nuclear nonproliferation issues. Now, he’s watching the planned production of plutonium pits – the explosive triggers for nuclear weapons – and ever-increasing amounts of radioactive waste, with no intervention by the DOE to make anything better.
I spoke with Tom Clements on November 7, 2025.
Links from the interview:
LINK to Report: Unleashing Plutonium Proliferation
For more on Nuclear Deterrence check out Nuclear Hotseat #737: The Lie of Nuclear Deterrence, with ICAN’s Melissa Parke: https://www.nuclearhotseat.com/podcast/ican-hiroshima-atomic-bomb/
Nuclear Hotseat Hot Story with Linda Pentz Gunter:
US priorities: Military spending — especially nuclear weapons and the Golden Dome — versus SNAP benefits and other basic human needs. Linda Pentz Gunter parses it out.
Milk and Cookies Story Time with the Nuclear Resister – Jack Cohen-Joppa
This month’s contribution to our understanding the history of nuclear resistance: A big ELF that menaced the North Woods and threatened the world for thirty years was finally chased out by the teach-ins, petitions, lawsuits, and hand saws of popular resistance.
Nukewatch founder Bonnie Urfer and Mike Sprong, as part of the Silence Trident Plowshares action, cutting an ELF pole, June 24, 2000. Note the peace sign carved into the pole.
Links:
- Kat Kramer Films that Change the World – ON THE BEACH and Judgment at Nuremberg– Sunday, November 23, 1 pm, Fine Arts Theatre, Los Angeles. TICKETS: https://fineartstheatrebh.com/
