by Snake River Alliance | Mar 6, 2017 | Idaho Nuclear Updates, Spent Nuclear Fuel
Although the nuclear navy is still allowed to bring waste to Idaho under the 1995 Nuclear Waste Agreement, shipments of commercial spent nuclear fuel are currently prohibited. This winter, the Governor’s Leadership in Nuclear Energy panel and the State Legislature...
by Snake River Alliance | Mar 6, 2017 | Nuclear
A decade ago, nuclear proponents were claiming a renaissance for the US industry. Dozens of reactors were penciled out – if only on the backs of napkins – and the federal government was set to provide billions of dollars in loan guarantees for new construction. States...
by Snake River Alliance | Mar 6, 2017 | Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear
The clock that symbolizes the threat of global catastrophe from nuclear weapons and climate change has advanced 30 seconds. It’s now 2 ½ minutes to midnight on the Doomsday Clock. Manhattan Project scientists founded the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1945...
by Snake River Alliance | Mar 6, 2017 | Nuclear
The latest test of the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) has failed. The IWTU was to have solidified INL’s last 900,000 gallons of liquid high-level waste in 2012, a key cleanup deadline in the 1995 Settlement Agreement. But the facility has yet to operate...
by Snake River Alliance | Jan 18, 2017 | Nuclear
Tickets Available Now. The second “Holding What Can’t be Held” exhibition at the MING Studio in Boise is sponsored by the Alliance in partnership with artists working together as The Feeling Body . If you have ever wanted to tour the Idaho...