Enrichment? HALEU? Virtual Scoping Meetings Announced

The DOE has issued a notice of intent for a High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU) Availability Program by launching the scoping process for an environmental impact statement. Enriching uranium to make HALEU poses serious nuclear weapons proliferation risks and puts us in danger. The fuel would be enriched to bomb grade or near bomb grade—20% uranium […]

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Nuclear Fuel Chain Part 3: Transportation

Radioactive waste specialist Kevin Kamps joins us to discuss the transportation of nuclear materials through communities on our nation's roads, rails, and barges. If a temporary storage facility is opened in New Mexico, how will all the nation's commercial nuclear reactors send their waste? After the East Palestine derailment disaster, could a similar accident occur […]

Summer Workshop on Siting of Radioactive Waste Facilities

Snake River Event Center 780 Lindsay Blvd, Idaho Falls, ID, United States

The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (Board) will hold a workshop on Tuesday, August 29, 2023, to update its understanding of the lessons learned from the siting of radioactive waste management facilities, domestically and in other countries. The Board’s objectives for the workshop are to obtain information that may be applicable to the U.S. […]

Summer 2023 Board Meeting: Consent-Based Siting

Snake River Event Center 780 Lindsay Blvd, Idaho Falls, ID, United States

Topic: The meeting will focus on U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) efforts on consent-based siting and will also address DOE research and development activities related to high burnup commercial spent nuclear fuel and advanced reactor waste disposition. The U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (Board) will hold a public meeting in Idaho Falls, Idaho on […]

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Last Stand to Save Your Solar!

Idaho Public Utilities Commission (PUC) Public Workshop - Roof Top Solar Net Metering Changes The PUC would like to hear from you about Idaho Power's plan to cut compensation rates and raise fees.  Join us for the final chance we have to stop Idaho Power's proposal to kill customer owned solar! September 7, 2023: Virtual […]

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Nuclear Fuel Chain Part IV: Decommissioning

What Happens When a Nuclear Power Plant Shuts Down? Join us Tuesday, September 26th at 6:00 pm MT and find out first hand what it's like to live in a reactor community and what happens to the people and the place after a nuclear plant shuts down. Deborah Katz, CSW is executive director of Citizens […]