by Beatrice Brailsford | Jan 14, 2019 | Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
Reprocessing is the must-take step between a nuclear reactor and a nuclear bomb, and is the source of some of the most dangerous waste on earth. During reprocessing, spent nuclear fuel from reactors is dissolved in acid so bomb ingredients – plutonium and highly...
by Snake River Alliance | Apr 19, 2018 | Idaho Nuclear Updates, INL "Incident Reports"
The rupture of one barrel of nuclear waste (and three more that merely popped their tops) on April at the Idaho National Laboratory highlights why Snake River Alliance is investing in a new public education campaign, Don’t Waste Idaho, to stop more shipments of...
by Beatrice Brailsford | Aug 16, 2017 | Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
On August 11, 2017, the Los Angeles Times revealed that, without significant reform, the Department of Energy (DOE) will miss its 2035 deadline for getting all its spent fuel out of Idaho. The LA Times article is based on a report by Edwin Lyman of the Union of...
by Beatrice Brailsford | Oct 11, 2016 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear
Idahoans packed a Department of Energy meeting in Boise and our comments showed we know a lot and care a lot about nuclear waste accumulation. Well done. We’ll no doubt need to keep speaking up – it’s so hard for the DOE to hear. Over the spring and summer, the...
by Snake River Alliance | Sep 4, 2015 | Nuclear
Kelsey Nunez’s guest opinion was published in the Idaho Statesman, Idaho Mountain Express, the Argus Observer, and the Jackson Hole News & Guide.
