by Snake River Alliance | Jan 26, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear
By Beatrice Brailsford Idahoans’ resistance to accumulating nuclear waste above the Snake River Aquifer began in earnest in the 1960s. Challenges came from individuals and political leaders, heads of corporations and grassroots activists. By the 1990s, the State was...
by Snake River Alliance | Jan 15, 2015 | Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
January 13 brought bad news about Governor Otter and Attorney General Wasden’s plans to grant the Department of Energy a “waiver” to ship more nuclear waste to Idaho, despite DOE’s existing violations of the 1995 Settlement Agreement that...
by Snake River Alliance | Jan 5, 2015 | Nuclear
We thank the Post Register and Idaho Statesman for providing a broad platform for Beatrice Brailsford’s moving guest opinion on the US nuclear weapons arsenal. Find the guest piece in the Post Register here and in the Idaho Statesman here. Guest Opinion: The...
by Snake River Alliance | Dec 23, 2014 | Nuclear
BY LUKE RAMSETH (IDAHO FALLS) POST REGISTER December 22, 2014 IDAHO FALLS – The morning of Feb. 5, deep below the New Mexico desert, a salt-hauling truck caught fire inside the nation’s only repository for nuclear weapons waste. Nine days later, on the...
by Snake River Alliance | Dec 22, 2014 | Nuclear
Idaho Says No By Keith Schneider; Keith Schneider is a New York Times national correspondent based in Washington; his coverage of the nuclear weapons industry won a 1989 George Polk Memorial Award. Published: March 11, 1990 In the indigo moment before the sun rises...
