Nuclear Security, Science & Energy, Environmental Stewardship
The Savannah River Site has a 75+ year record of support to U.S. military strategic deterrence. While serving as one of the nation’s most critical pieces in the weapons complex, the site is also one of the safest major industrial sites in the world. Ensuring national security, protecting workers, the public, and the environment, are our highest goals.
News Releases
The latest news and information on how the Savannah River Site continues to safely and efficiently protect the public health and the environment while supporting the nation’s nuclear deterrent and the transformation of the Site for future use.
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Prepared to protect: SRSFD earns top honors at NNSA training workshop
AIKEN, S.C. – The Savannah River Site Fire Department (SRSFD) recently demonstrated its commitment to excellence and emergency preparedness by…
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Nearly 110 educators receive SRNS Mini Grants to advance STEM learning
AIKEN, S.C. – Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (SRNS) honored nearly 110 outstanding educators on May 21 during the annual Innovative…
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SRS recognized for Outstanding Commitment to Saving Local Lives
AIKEN, S.C. – Savannah River Site (SRS) recently received the 2025 Outstanding Commitment to Saving Local Lives Award from Shepeard…
Missions & Programs
Dedicated to maintaining the highest possible safety and security standards, the Savannah River Site (SRS) is a key U.S. Department of Energy industrial complex, responsible for supporting our nation’s nuclear defense; preventing nuclear weapon proliferation; environmental stewardship and cleanup; waste management; and disposition of nuclear materials.
Nuclear Deterrence
The purpose for establishing SRS in the 1950s was to support the nation’s nuclear deterrence and defense. Today, the Site continues to fulfill that purpose through the SRS Tritium facilities, construction of the Savannah River Plutonium Processing Facility, and preparing for the pit production mission.
Nuclear Nonproliferation
SRS is dedicated to the NNSA’s mission of safely managing and disposing of surplus weapons-grade materials. These efforts play a critical role in preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons and reducing the threat of nuclear and radiological terrorism worldwide.
Nuclear Materials Disposition and Used Fuel Storage
The safe and secure storage, handling and permanent disposition of used nuclear fuel and plutonium materials are long-standing missions at SRS.
Safety Programs
SRS is committed to its people, missions and the future. SRS has a long track record of being one of the safest sites in the DOE complex and one of the safest major industrial sites in the world. Protecting workers, the public, national security interests and the environment are our highest goals.
Waste Management
Waste management at SRS includes the safe disposition of both radioactive liquid waste and hazardous, sanitary, construction and demolition and transuranic solid waste.
Savannah River National Laboratory
SRNL puts science to work to help protect our environment, secure our clean energy future, serve our national defense and reduce emerging nuclear threats. SRNL is one of 17 national laboratories, and it is the only national lab sponsored by the Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management.
Environmental Stewardship
SRS is committed to ensuring that SRS activities are conducted in accordance with state and federal regulations while ensuring the safety of workers, the public and the environment.
US Forest Service:
Deer Management Program
Our program is designed to benefit the public by allowing access to controlled hunts to effectively manage the deer population within the SRS boundary, while maintaining uncompromising site safety and security.
Site tours provide an opportunity for those interested in SRS to better understand the Department of Energy’s facilities, missions, and workforce that changed the face of Aiken, Barnwell and Allendale Counties, nearby cities and helped win the Cold War.
used to keep safety performance a core value for all employees.
Blast From The Past
Constructed during the early 1950s, the Savannah River Site was built to produce the basic materials used in the fabrication of nuclear weapons, primarily tritium and plutonium-239, in support of our nation’s defense programs. Five reactors were built to produce these materials along with a number of support facilities including two chemical separations plants, a heavy water extraction plant, a nuclear fuel and target fabrication facility, a tritium extraction facility and waste management facilities.
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