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 | Jun 28, 2019 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear
By Kathy Daly & Kaye Turner What were the early days of Snake River Alliance like, down in the corner pocket of Southeast Idaho? Well, in those nascent days, we were pretty much a herd of wild-ass hippies who had grown up hiding under our school desks in response...
by Snake River Alliance | Jun 28, 2019 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear, Solarize The Valley
Rinda Just, Snake River Alliance Board President Rick and Rinda Just go Solar! Three and a half years ago, my husband and I did the mid-life, post-retirement downsize. We explored rooftop solar, as I had long believed that using the sun to generate electricity to...
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 | Dec 10, 2018 | Nuclear
Former Governors Phil Batt and Cecil Andrus fought long and hard with the federal government to craft the 1995 Nuclear Settlement Agreement. Today, the Department of Energy still hasn’t met many important deadlines, and even worse, there’s talk in some places of...
