Comment Deadline for Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment

The Department of Energy (DOE) opened public comment for the Bill Gates Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment draft Environmental Assessment (EA). Initially DOE gave the public only 14 days to obtain, read, and comment on the EA. The Snake River Alliance, our members,...

Enriched Uranium: Is it Worth the Risk?

The nuclear industry, specifically those that dabble in so-called “advanced ” small (or micro) modular nuclear reactors (SMNRs) have a big problem. Most use a fuel called HALEU (high-assay low enriched uranium) which is enriched to 5 – 20%. Russia is about...

We said it…Did DOE hear?

Idahoans packed a Department of Energy meeting in Boise and our comments showed we know a lot and care a lot about nuclear waste accumulation. Well done. We’ll no doubt need to keep speaking up – it’s so hard for the DOE to hear. Over the spring and summer, the...

Who Will Protect Idaho?

“Houston, we have a problem.” Although engineers and other workers at the Idaho National Laboratory in eastern Idaho have probably always tried to handle nuclear material safely, it doesn’t always work. Since 2005, accidents and inadvertent releases have happened with...