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)...
A first year business student should be able to explain the basics of Supply and Demand. You have something, in this case energy, and you sell it to those with a need/demand. A simple concept, but then why would the nuclear industrial complex build so-called...
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” ~Milan Kundera On April 1st the Idaho Falls Post Register included a piece by Jakob Thorington. The article celebrates sixteen years of successful clean-up work at the Idaho National...
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...
On August 11, 2017, the Los Angeles Times revealed that, without significant reform, the Department of Energy (DOE) will miss its 2035 deadline for getting all its spent fuel out of Idaho. The LA Times article is based on a report by Edwin Lyman of the Union of...
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...
