July 27 ID Energy Update

Idaho Power has taken the unusual step of kicking an environmental organization off its advisory planning group after the Snake River Alliance questioned the utility’s use of coal to generate much of its electricity.  [Read more.] And the Bureau of Land Management is back at it with new open houses to explain its review of [...]

Absent partner, Areva could delay Idaho project

Associated Press Published: Saturday, July 21 2012 12:09 a.m. MDT By: John Miller IDAHO FALLS — Areva has yet to announce a financial partner to help build its proposed gas centrifuge uranium enrichment plant near Idaho Falls, raising the potential that construction on the $3 billion project will be delayed until 2014. By then, the [...]

Nuclear Waste . . . It Ain’t Easy – Beatrice Brailsford

The Integrated Waste Treatment Unit, designed to lessen one of the primary environmental hazards at the Idaho National Laboratory, has hit a fairly serious obstacle.  It reminds us that INL is not just a bunch of press releases, but a real place with real impacts. The IWTU is slated to suck out the last 900,000 [...]

Keep Up the Pressure on the LINE Commission – Liz Woodruff

On June 29 Snake River Alliance staff stood before the Leadership in Nuclear Energy (LINE) Commission and sent a clear message: Idahoans will not accept commercial radioactive spent fuel for storage or disposal. Idahoans have already said “NO” to this waste … but we’re willing to say it again. See our presentation and other presentations [...]