by Leigh Ford | May 26, 2023 | Alliance Publications, Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
Another Environmental Injustice Consolidated (or Centralized) “Interim” Storage (CIS) are proposed facilities that would receive high-level commercial nuclear power waste “temporarily” before being shipped to a (currently non-existent)...
by Snake River Alliance | Aug 28, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
There have been a number of editorials and guest opinions in Idaho newspapers since the start of the year regarding the Department of Energy’s desire to ship two batches of commercial spent nuclear fuel to Idaho. As has often been the case during nuclear controversies...
by Snake River Alliance | Jul 29, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
Starting in 1957, every scrap of spent fuel from the nuclear Navy has come to Idaho. The nuclear Navy plans to continue to send its spent fuel to the Idaho National Laboratory for the foreseeable future. The nuclear Navy is now proposing to build a new facility at INL...
by Snake River Alliance | Jun 29, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear
Idaho has already said NO . . . But those who want to import commercial nuclear waste need to hear it again In January, we learned that Idaho’s Governor and Attorney General had agreed to allow two shipments of commercial spent nuclear fuel into the state. The...
by Snake River Alliance | Jun 29, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear
Q: Why worry about commercial spent fuel? A: 23.8 billion curies…and counting We’re sometimes asked why we oppose the importation of commercial spent fuel – and why the State of Idaho pushed to ban it in the 1995 Settlement Agreement. After all, there’s already spent...