by Snake River Alliance | Jul 19, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
On Thursday evening, July 14, the Department of Energy (DOE) is coming to Boise to ask Idahoans what we think of a new process for siting nuclear waste facilities. After the agency spent decades trying to force nuclear waste on unwilling Nevadans, the DOE has a “new”...
by Snake River Alliance | Feb 11, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
Idaho National Laboratory contractor, Battelle, and its supporters in eastern Idaho would very much like to have a piece of the federal funding for commercial nuclear waste storage and disposal. It will be a pretty big pie. States that might be thinking about...
by Snake River Alliance | Dec 16, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
The Idaho National Laboratory may be best known today for its work on all things nuclear and for dealing with decades of deadly post-Cold War nuclear contamination under Idaho’s Arco desert, but a less-publicized research program on new transportation technologies is...
by Snake River Alliance | Nov 10, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
The Snake River Alliance has long worked to stop shipments of spent nuclear fuel from coming to Idaho. Our work paid off on October 23, when Idaho’s Attorney General, Lawrence Wasden, blocked a shipment of 25 spent fuel rods from Virginia’s North Anna reactor. Idaho’s...
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...
