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...
by Snake River Alliance | Nov 23, 2014 | Nuclear
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS November 20, 2014 – 1:13 pm EST IDAHO FALLS, Idaho — An eastern Idaho radioactive waste treatment facility planned to be operational in 2012 won’t be ready for months, federal officials say. The U.S. Department of Energy tells the Post...
by Snake River Alliance | Jan 30, 2014 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear
One of Congress’s primary responsibilities is to make the decisions necessary to fund the federal government. But Congress hasn’t even been able to agree on a budget for the past three years and instead has enacted a series of short-term budget fixes. So it was good...