by Leigh Ford | Jun 21, 2024 | Alliance Publications, Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear
Despite indications of potential support by the House for extending and expanding the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) by the June 10 expiration, Speaker Mike Johnson (R, LA), did not bring it to the floor for a vote in time. While the program’s cost was the...
by Leigh Ford | Apr 19, 2024 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear
Justice is needed NOW! Please call, email, or visit your members of the US House Representatives and tell them they must pass RECA NOW before it expires in June. Urge them to pressure their House colleagues and House Speaker Mike Johnson, one of the RECA holdouts....
by Snake River Alliance | May 26, 2023 | Alliance Publications, Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear
After three long awaited years, Alliance for Nuclear Accountability’s (ANA) DC Days conference was back in person this April! The Snakes were thrilled to attend, and it was a week full of fun and insightful learning experiences. Two staff members (Ava Traverso and...
by Ava Traverso | May 26, 2023 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy, Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear
The face-lift the nuclear industry is currently receiving is not new or surprising. Since the golden age of the peacetime atom back in the 1960s-1970s, when nuclear was heralded as the “energy source to light the future,” there has been a steady decline in public...
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 Leigh Ford | Jun 29, 2022 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy, Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
A first-year business student should be able to explain the basics of Supply and Demand. A simple concept, but then why would the nuclear industrial complex build so-called “advanced” nuclear reactors when the fuel to run them isn’t available? For...
