by Snake River Alliance | Mar 6, 2017 | Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear
Cleanup workers at the Idaho National Laboratory have successfully removed the last wooden box of radioactive waste from the above-ground Transuranic Storage Area. Technicians signed their names to the final retrieval container on the night of February 21, 2017. This...
by Snake River Alliance | Mar 6, 2017 | Nuclear
The latest test of the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) has failed. The IWTU was to have solidified INL’s last 900,000 gallons of liquid high-level waste in 2012, a key cleanup deadline in the 1995 Settlement Agreement. But the facility has yet to operate...
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 | 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...
