by Snake River Alliance | Jun 28, 2019 | Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear
Beatrice Brailsford, Nuclear Program Director For forty years, the Snake River Alliance has fought against nuclear weapons and power projects, particularly those that would harm Idaho and spread nuclear contamination above the Snake River Aquifer. But we’ve always...
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 | Nov 15, 2018 | Idaho Energy Updates, Idaho Nuclear Updates
Electric utilities #1 job is to keep the lights on. Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) wants to build 12 nuclear reactors at the Idaho National Laboratory that would produce a total of 720 MW. But the advantages of these small modular reactors (SMR)...
by Snake River Alliance | Aug 24, 2018 | Idaho Nuclear Updates, Press Releases
BOISE, Idaho (August 23rd, 2018) — A proposal by the federal Department of Energy to ship about 33,600 barrels of nuclear waste to the Idaho National Laboratory has sparked citizen outrage across southern Idaho. The proposed shipments could start coming from Hanford,...
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 | Apr 11, 2018 | Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear
The Department of Energy wants to bring 7,000 cubic meters of untested plutonium-contaminated waste to Idaho from the shutdown nuclear bomb plant in Hanford, WA. The waste would come in by truck or railroad, crossing the Columbia and Snake rivers and passing through...
