by Snake River Alliance | May 1, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear
Say It to the Department of Energy In January the Governor and Attorney General indicated their willingness to open Idaho to shipments of commercial spent nuclear fuel despite the 1995 Settlement Agreement that banned those shipments. Former governors Batt and Andrus,...
by Snake River Alliance | Mar 25, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
By Beatrice Brailsford As many of you know, Idaho’s Governor and Attorney General are exploring a deal with the Department of Energy to allow two shipments of research quantities of commercial spent nuclear fuel to come to Idaho. Doing so would compromise one of the...
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 | 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...
