by Snake River Alliance | Jul 29, 2020 | Alliance Publications
Hannah Smay, Snake River Alliance Board Bryant Kusy, Snake River Alliance Board As officials in Trump’s administration discuss the possibility of resuming nuclear testing, we are paying attention. A future where Idahoans are free from the threat of nuclear...
by Snake River Alliance | Jan 14, 2019 | Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
Reprocessing is the must-take step between a nuclear reactor and a nuclear bomb, and is the source of some of the most dangerous waste on earth. During reprocessing, spent nuclear fuel from reactors is dissolved in acid so bomb ingredients – plutonium and highly...
by Snake River Alliance | Apr 19, 2018 | Idaho Nuclear Updates, INL "Incident Reports"
The rupture of one barrel of nuclear waste (and three more that merely popped their tops) on April at the Idaho National Laboratory highlights why Snake River Alliance is investing in a new public education campaign, Don’t Waste Idaho, to stop more shipments of...
by Snake River Alliance | Aug 16, 2017 | Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
On August 11, 2017, the Los Angeles Times revealed that, without significant reform, the Department of Energy (DOE) will miss its 2035 deadline for getting all its spent fuel out of Idaho. The LA Times article is based on a report by Edwin Lyman of the Union of...
by Snake River Alliance | Oct 11, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear
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...
