by Snake River Alliance | Apr 21, 2015 | Alliance Publications, INL "Incident Reports", Nuclear
On October 23, 2014, one worker at the Idaho National Laboratory received internal radioactive contamination. The so-called “contamination event” was not reported to the public or State of Idaho until April 8, 2015. What were workers doing and why? On that Thursday...
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 | 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 The central lament of these “experts” is that the US arsenal is obsolete.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...
by Snake River Alliance | Apr 13, 2012 | Nuclear
The Idaho National Laboratory has been in the news lately…and it’s not been good news. Here’s what the Alliance knows about two recent accidents at the Site and a little background on how we get information. On Tuesday, November 8, 16 people were in the area where a...
by Snake River Alliance | Apr 13, 2012 | Nuclear
INL NewsRelease FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Nov. 9, 2011 NEWS MEDIA CONTACTS: Ethan Huffman, 208-526-0660, ethan.huffman@inl.gov Misty Benjamin, 208-526-5940, misty.benjamin@inl.gov Update on employee exposureincident; officials available to answer questions Wednesday ...