A Vision for Tomorrow

For decades, the Savannah River Site has played an important and historic role for the communities and economies of South Carolina and Georgia. In restoring and renewing the Savannah River Site, we create a setting in which a clean environment and innovation will attract the jobs and industries of the future.

Today, as SRS enters its next phase, we are dedicated to attracting new missions and jobs to the site, while simultaneously providing our employees with the experience and innovative skills needed for the jobs of tomorrow.

Developing the Savannah River Site

The Savannah River Site (SRS) was constructed in the early 1950s by DuPont, designer and builder of the plutonium production complex at Hanford, WA. Located on the Savannah River just south of Aiken, S.C., and across from Augusta, GA, the site was created at the request of the US Atomic Energy Commission to manufacture materials for national defense, primarily tritium and plutonium-239. The 300-square-mile, historic nuclear weapons site stretches across what was vast farmland, through the towns of Ellenton and Dunbarton and a scattering of other small communities including Meyer’s Mill, Leigh, Robins and Hawthorne. Upon completion of the basic plant in 1956, the region’s economy and workforce had already become largely invested in the site.