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...
by Snake River Alliance | May 15, 2015 | Clean Energy Program, Idaho Energy Updates
The Idaho National Laboratory made the first cut in what’s being called the “Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (FORGE).” A total of $2 million is set aside for this early phase of the research; $31 million will be allocated of the first two...
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,...
