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 | Dec 26, 2014 | Clean Energy Program, Nuclear
“The problem is a lot of the complaints that existing nuclear plants aren’t getting enough credit from E.P.A.’s proposal basically amount to a request to weaken the rule,” said Mr. Lashof, also a longtime climate expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council, “so...
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 19, 2014 | Alliance Publications, Idaho Energy Updates, Nuclear
Idaho continues to attract unusual proposals to build commercial nuclear reactors designed to send electricity to points unknown. There have now been three such proposals in the past nine years. One, by billionaire Warren Buffett and his MidAmerican Energy, was spiked...
by Snake River Alliance | Dec 2, 2014 | Clean Energy Program, Nuclear
Join the Snake River Alliance in creating strong citizen opposition to counter the new push for increased nuclear weapons production and testing. The spending for nuclear weapons is grotesque and must not be expanded! Idaho is already burdened with contaminated land...
