
A federal nuclear safety watchdog wants the National Nuclear Security Administration to respond to concerns over worker safety at the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility in just over a month. Three different NNSA safety assessments of the in-development plutonium facility have now found concerns with worker safety, specifically that project leaders are allowing workers to “use their senses to detect accidents such as a glovebox spill or fire,” the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) wrote to Secretary of Energy…