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 | Jan 7, 2019 | Alliance Publications
As President of the Board of the Snake River Alliance, I want to thank all our members for their ongoing support. As a member-based organization, it is all of you – all of us! – who keep Idaho’s citizens aware of the potential effects nuclear waste could have on our...
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...
by Snake River Alliance | Dec 2, 2018 | Nuclear
President Trump signed a budget bill for 2019 that includes $1.3 billion for nuclear energy research and development. That money will fund a whole raft of bad ideas, many right here in Idaho. $100 million will go toward 12 small modular reactors (SMRs). A chunk of...
by Snake River Alliance | Nov 16, 2018 | Clean Energy Program, Nuclear
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. Who will speak up for Idaho? One vital group, the Snake River Alliance, is speaking up as Idaho’s nuclear watchdog and Idaho’s advocate for...
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 | Nov 2, 2018 | Nuclear
Written by Gail Luedtke, Magic Valley It was with a heavy heart and a very alert mind that I read Idaho National Laboratory’s (INL) Dr. Mark Peters’ comments in the Sunday, October 14 Magic Valley Times Newspaper. He portrayed a beautiful picture of life for Idahoans...
by Snake River Alliance | Oct 4, 2018 | Alliance Publications
Written by Eilen Jewell. On September 8th, my band and I performed a backyard benefit concert for the Snake River Alliance. Patricia and Liz Young, along with neighbor Sarah Lunstrum of Dream Farm Flowers, were kind enough to host us in their homes and their beautiful...
by Snake River Alliance | Aug 29, 2018 | Nuclear
After numerous disclosures about releases and discharges from the US nuclear weapons complex that harmed public health and safety, Congress created the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (DNFSB) in 1988. Its statutory mission is to “provide independent analysis,...
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,...
