by Leigh Ford | Jan 31, 2022 | Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear
What is the True Cost? In 2021 the nuclear industry once again showed the American taxpayer its true colors. Federal indictments, bribery scandals, environmental injustice, funding uncertainty, unkept promises, radioactive waste, and the realization that nuclear...
by Ian Cotten | Mar 2, 2021 | Alliance Publications, Clean Energy, Idaho Energy Updates, Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear, Uncategorized
Idaho congressman Mike Simpson has unveiled a plan to remove the four Lower Snake River Dams (LSRD). These dams -Ice Harbor, Little Goose, Lower Monumental, and Lower Granite – are all situated in Oregon along the lower Snake River. The motivation behind the...
by Snake River Alliance | Dec 2, 2018 | Nuclear
President Trump signed a budget bill for 2019 that includes $1.3 billion for nuclear energy research and development. That money will fund a whole raft of bad ideas, many right here in Idaho. $100 million will go toward 12 small modular reactors (SMRs). A chunk of...
by Snake River Alliance | Aug 24, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear
Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) has picked out land within the boundaries of the Idaho National Laboratory where it wants to build and operate a small modular reactor (SMR) by 2024. A company called NuScale is finalizing the design right now. Whoa!...
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...
