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 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 17, 2014 | INL "Incident Reports", Nuclear
http://www.boiseweekly.com/boise/half-life-how-an-accident-at-the-idaho-national-laboratory-changed-a-family/Content?oid=3094301 Half-Life: How an Accident at the Idaho National Laboratory Changed a Family Years after he was exposed to radiation, a man fights...
by Snake River Alliance | Dec 17, 2014 | Nuclear
On December 1 the Idaho Statesman reprinted an article from the LA Times headlined “New Nuclear Weapons Needed, Many Experts Say.” The central lament of these “experts” is that the US arsenal is obsolete. It is not. The US nuclear arsenal, which is the largest...