New USGS Well Improves Monitoring of Nuclear Waste in Water Supply

Times-News August 22, 2012  •  By Kimberlee Kruesi – kkruesi@magicvalley.com ARCO • Idaho National Laboratory employees may no longer inject nuclear waste into the ground, but the waste is still finding a way to creep into a critical water source. Small amounts of waste from under INL are slowly seeping through pathways in the basalt [...]

Groundwater Contamination Persists — Beatrice Brailsford

The Idaho National Laboratory has made notable cleanup progress in some areas at the Site – but not all. Under the “good news” heading, the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit is slated to start treating the last of the Site’s liquid high-level waste in May and finish emptying the buried tanks by the end of the [...]

INL’s Waste and Idaho’s Water — Beatrice Brailsford

The Idaho National Laboratory wants to build a new nuclear dump so it can continue to bury very radioactive waste above the Snake River Aquifer for fifty more years. What we’ve seen so far on the plan is an environmental assessment so cursory it cannot be used for a decision as serious as whether or [...]