Tom Clements is based in Columbia, South Carolina USA, where he is the director of Savannah River Site Watch, a small NGO that focuses on U.S. Department of Energy programs ranging from plutonium and spent fuel management to funding for advanced reactors to production of new nuclear warheads.
After obtaining a master’s degree in forest resources from the University of Georgia, he has worked for the past 40 years as campaigner on a host of nuclear issues for public-interest organizations, including Greenpeace International, the Nuclear Control Institute, the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability and Friends of the Earth-US.
Beginning in 2008 until project termination in 2017, he led a formal intervention with FOE against new Westinghouse AP1000 reactors at the V.C. Summer site in South Carolina. And, from 2008 to the project’s 2018 cancelation, successfully opposed construction of a facility to make MOX fuel from surplus weapons plutonium at DOE’s Savannah River Site. He currently leads a campaign against conversion of the MOX building into a $25-billion facility to make plutonium cores for new nuclear warheads.
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