by Snake River Alliance | Aug 21, 2015 | Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
The State of Idaho should stand tall while demanding that the Department of Energy honor its commitments to the people of Idaho. While the Idaho National Laboratory may be an economic force in our state, the history of the Site is plagued by the federal government’s...
by Snake River Alliance | Jun 29, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear
Q: Why worry about commercial spent fuel? A: 23.8 billion curies…and counting We’re sometimes asked why we oppose the importation of commercial spent fuel – and why the State of Idaho pushed to ban it in the 1995 Settlement Agreement. After all, there’s already spent...
by Snake River Alliance | Jun 3, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
At the beginning of 2015, the DOE succeeded in wresting a preliminary agreement from Idaho’s Governor and Attorney General to allow two shipments of “research quantities” of commercial spent nuclear fuel into Idaho. The proposal, if implemented, will almost certainly...
by Snake River Alliance | May 1, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear
Say It to the Department of Energy In January the Governor and Attorney General indicated their willingness to open Idaho to shipments of commercial spent nuclear fuel despite the 1995 Settlement Agreement that banned those shipments. Former governors Batt and Andrus,...
by Snake River Alliance | Apr 21, 2015 | Alliance Publications, INL "Incident Reports", Nuclear
On October 23, 2014, one worker at the Idaho National Laboratory received internal radioactive contamination. The so-called “contamination event” was not reported to the public or State of Idaho until April 8, 2015. What were workers doing and why? On that Thursday...