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 | Aug 21, 2015 | Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear, Spent Nuclear Fuel
The State of Idaho should stand tall while demanding that the Department of Energy honor its commitments to the people of Idaho. While the Idaho National Laboratory may be an economic force in our state, the history of the Site is plagued by the federal government’s...
by Snake River Alliance | Jun 29, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Idaho Nuclear Updates, Nuclear
Idaho has already said NO . . . But those who want to import commercial nuclear waste need to hear it again In January, we learned that Idaho’s Governor and Attorney General had agreed to allow two shipments of commercial spent nuclear fuel into the state. The...
by Snake River Alliance | Feb 23, 2015 | Alliance Publications, Nuclear
By Beatrice Brailsford Sites across the US Department of Energy (DOE) nuclear weapons complex have sent more than 11,890 shipments of plutonium waste to the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) in New Mexico, the only deep geologic repository in the country. Far...
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...
