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 | Jan 26, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear
By Beatrice Brailsford Idahoans’ resistance to accumulating nuclear waste above the Snake River Aquifer began in earnest in the 1960s. Challenges came from individuals and political leaders, heads of corporations and grassroots activists. By the 1990s, the State was...
by Snake River Alliance | Jan 15, 2015 | Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
January 13 brought bad news about Governor Otter and Attorney General Wasden’s plans to grant the Department of Energy a “waiver” to ship more nuclear waste to Idaho, despite DOE’s existing violations of the 1995 Settlement Agreement that...