The Department of Energy (DOE) has allocated roughly $2 million each to 12 consortia to investigate “consent-based siting” (CBS), a strategy to gain local community acceptance for radioactive waste facilities. Boise State University is leading one of these...
Watch Atomic Bamboozle online FREE then join September 30th for an online panel discsussion and Q&A. As political pressure mounts in the US to meet net zero carbon goals, the nuclear power industry makes its case for a nuclear “renaissance.” This documentary by...
The Department of Energy (DOE) opened public comment for the Bill Gates Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment draft Environmental Assessment (EA). Initially DOE gave the public only 14 days to obtain, read, and comment on the EA. The Snake River Alliance, our members,...
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” ~Milan Kundera On April 1st the Idaho Falls Post Register included a piece by Jakob Thorington. The article celebrates sixteen years of successful clean-up work at the Idaho National...
The nuclear industry, specifically those that dabble in so-called “advanced ” small (or micro) modular nuclear reactors (SMNRs) have a big problem. Most use a fuel called HALEU (high-assay low enriched uranium) which is enriched to 5 – 20%. Russia is about...
