by Snake River Alliance | Mar 25, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
By Beatrice Brailsford As many of you know, Idaho’s Governor and Attorney General are exploring a deal with the Department of Energy to allow two shipments of research quantities of commercial spent nuclear fuel to come to Idaho. Doing so would compromise one of the...
by Snake River Alliance | Feb 23, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear
By Beatrice Brailsford Sites across the US Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear weapons complex have sent more than 11,890 shipments of plutonium waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico, the only deep geologic repository in the country. Far...
by Snake River Alliance | Jan 26, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear
By Beatrice Brailsford Idahoans’ resistance to accumulating nuclear waste above the Snake River Aquifer began in earnest in the 1960s. Challenges came from individuals and political leaders, heads of corporations and grassroots activists. By the 1990s, the State was...
by Snake River Alliance | Jan 15, 2015 | Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
January 13 brought bad news about Governor Otter and Attorney General Wasden’s plans to grant the Department of Energy a “waiver” to ship more nuclear waste to Idaho, despite DOE’s existing violations of the 1995 Settlement Agreement that...
by Snake River Alliance | Dec 23, 2014 | Nuclear
BY LUKE RAMSETH (IDAHO FALLS) POST REGISTER December 22, 2014 IDAHO FALLS – The morning of Feb. 5, deep below the New Mexico desert, a salt-hauling truck caught fire inside the nation’s only repository for nuclear weapons waste. Nine days later, on the...
