by Leigh Ford | Jan 31, 2022 | Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear
What is the True Cost? In 2021 the nuclear industry once again showed the American taxpayer its true colors. Federal indictments, bribery scandals, environmental injustice, funding uncertainty, unkept promises, radioactive waste, and the realization that nuclear...
by Ian Cotten | Mar 2, 2021 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy, Idaho Energy Updates, Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear, Uncategorized
Idaho congressman Mike Simpson has unveiled a plan to remove the four Lower Snake River Dams (LSRD). These dams -Ice Harbor, Little Goose, Lower Monumental, and Lower Granite – are all situated in Oregon along the lower Snake River. The motivation behind the...
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,...
