by Snake River Alliance | Jul 13, 2016 | Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
Board member Brent Marchbanks in his guest opinion featured in the Idaho Statesmen reminds Idahoans on why it is so important that we tell the Department of Energy NO! to nuclear waste during tomorrow evening’s DOE’s Consent Based Siting Public Meeting ....
by Snake River Alliance | Aug 10, 2015 | Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
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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 | Apr 21, 2015 | Alliance Publications, INL "Incident Reports", Nuclear
On October 23, 2014, one worker at the Idaho National Laboratory received internal radioactive contamination. The so-called “contamination event” was not reported to the public or State of Idaho until April 8, 2015. What were workers doing and why? On that Thursday...