Providing Accurate, Bad News — Beatrice Brailsford
The Idaho National Laboratory has been in the news lately…and it’s not been good news. Here’s what the Alliance knows about two recent accidents at the Site and a little background on how we get information. On Tuesday, November 8, 16 people were in the area where a plutonium fuel plate that had been used [...]
INL employees receive radiological exposure at Materials and Fuels Complex
INL NewsRelease FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov. 9, 2011 NEWS MEDIA CONTACTS: Ethan Huffman, 208-526-0660, ethan.huffman@inl.gov Misty Benjamin, 208-526-5940, misty.benjamin@inl.gov Update on employee exposureincident; officials available to answer questions Wednesday Officials have concluded theemergency response to Tuesday’s radiation exposure event, but medicalevaluation of exposed workers and investigation into the incident continue. Initial body scans on 16employees potentially [...]
Space Solar Idaho
Space Solar Idaho By Karl Grossman September 2006 For years NASA insisted it couldn’t be done. Beyond the orbit of Mars, NASA said, solar energy could not be used to generate electricity for onboard power on space devices. So the agency used the extremely dangerous nuclear substance, plutonium, as fuel in electric generating systems—and people [...]
