From the 1950s to the 1990s, the manufacture of nuclear weapons was a high priority item in the United States. The nation depended heavily on an adequate supply of atomic and hydrogen bombs as its ultimate defense against enemy attack. As a result,...

The Savannah River Site is a nuclear materials processing center in the United States state of South Carolina, located on land in Aiken, Allendale and Barwnell Counties adjacent to the Savannah River 25 miles from Augusta, Georgia. It is operated for...

Long before the Savannah River reaches Savannah, Ga., and empties into the Atlantic Ocean, the river flows past a 310-square-mile Department of Energy (DOE) complex known as the Savannah River Site (SRS). The site, which lies southeast of Augusta, Ga., and south of...

The primary source of trichloro- and tetrachloroethylenc contamination on the Savannah River Site (SRS) was from manufacturing facilities during the height of activity on the SRS from the 195Os to the 1980s. The SRS was constructed during the early 1950s to produce the basic...

The military is looking for a few good acres — very, very dark ones.The Army apparently has its night-vision goggles focused on the huge tract of federal land that comprises the Savannah River nuclear complex in the southwestern portion of the state. It wants to...