by Snake River Alliance | Aug 8, 2017 | Nuclear
August 2017 marks the 72nd anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This is a good time to take stock of where we are in the nuclear age. The surprisingly good news is that on July 7, 2017, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons was...
by Snake River Alliance | Aug 8, 2017 | Nuclear
Tour the Idaho National Lab – Your radioactive backyard On Thursday, August 31, 2017, Snake River Alliance members and supporters can visit the Idaho National Laboratory. Our tours are great opportunities to get a real sense of what has happened and is...
by Snake River Alliance | Jul 21, 2017 | Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear
Help stop bad nuclear policies Members of the Snake River Alliance went to Washington DC this spring to help stop unsafe plans to “consolidate” nuclear waste from commercial power plants and speak out against taxpayer money for small modular reactors. Along with...
by Snake River Alliance | Jul 10, 2017 | Nuclear
(Gary Richardson is a former Executive Director with the Snake River Alliance, this letter to the editor appeared in the July 6th Edition of the Idaho Statesman) The headline — “Officials removing radioactive waste from Idaho facility” — is incorrect and...
by Snake River Alliance | Jun 2, 2017 | Nuclear
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is accepting public comments now until the 27th of June on a proposed rule to reduce and eliminate Emergency Planning Zones around some new reactors, including the NuScale project in Idaho. NuScale wants to build an array of a...
by Snake River Alliance | May 30, 2017 | Nuclear
For its 29th Annual DC Days in May 2017, the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, which the Snake River Alliance is a part of, published a report entitled Accountability Audit. The report examines the extraordinary spending at Department of Energy nuclear facilities...
