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...
Idahoans packed a Department of Energy meeting in Boise and our comments showed we know a lot and care a lot about nuclear waste accumulation. Well done. We’ll no doubt need to keep speaking up – it’s so hard for the DOE to hear. Over the spring and summer, the...
“Houston, we have a problem.” Although engineers and other workers at the Idaho National Laboratory in eastern Idaho have probably always tried to handle nuclear material safely, it doesn’t always work. Since 2005, accidents and inadvertent releases have happened with...
