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Nuclear Power
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Proud to Represent You -- Beatrice Brailsford
By lwoodruff @ 8:58 AM :: 76 Views :: 0 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Action Alert!
Members of the Snake River Alliance have taken our call for a clean, nuclear-free future to decisionmakers in Washington, DC, for 24 years running. We’ve only been able to speak for you because of your support.
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Monday, March 12, 2012
THE ECONOMIST: Nuclear Power - The Dream That Failed
By lwoodruff @ 5:29 PM :: 57 Views :: 0 Comments :: Nuclear Power, SRA News Releases
http://www.economist.com/node/21549936
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Nuclear Dangers in Idaho -- Beatrice Brailsford
By bbrailsford @ 9:31 AM :: 229 Views :: 2 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Action Alert!
Battelle Energy Alliance took over the contract to manage the nuclear power initiatives at the Idaho National Laboratory in 2005. Serious incidents last year joined a list of events that indicate systemic, ongoing problems at the Site.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2012
After Fukushima: We'll Be Watching Governor's Nuclear Panel -- Liz Woodruff
By bbrailsford @ 9:17 AM :: 170 Views :: 3 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Action Alert!
The past year hasn’t been a good one for the nuclear industry. A devastating nuclear crisis in Japan has left a terrible legacy of polluted land, air and water.
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Monday, January 23, 2012
Jan 23 ID Energy Update: Energy Plan, AEHI Woes, and More
By lwoodruff @ 4:59 PM :: 279 Views :: 0 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Bruneau nuclear reactor, SRA News Releases
Months in the making, Idaho’s proposed 2012 Energy Plan is being sent to House and Senate committees for expected approval, warts and all. Meanwhile, the would-be developer of a nuclear reactor near the Snake River outside of Payette has run into problems with county planners, putting things on hold pending an appeal. That’s not the least of AEHI’s problems: It’s still embroiled in a high-stakes stock fraud suit brought by federal securities regulators. And Idaho Power may join with another utility and the Bonneville Power Administration in developing the Boardman-Hemingway transmission line from southwest Idaho to the Columbia River. We also have a report on the latest energy facility “siting” bill introduced by state Senate Democrats, complaints by two Twin Falls women over what Idaho Power’s new smart meters are really up to, and the announcement by Exergy Development that it plans 23 more wind farms in Idaho. Finally, the Idaho Legislature’s 2012 session is under way, so we’re resuming our weekly legislative update on things energy taking place at the Statehouse.
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Monday, January 02, 2012
Experts: Even Higher Costs and More Headaches Ahead for Nuclear Power in 2012
By lwoodruff @ 11:43 AM :: 167 Views :: 0 Comments :: Nuclear Power, SRA News Releases
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/12/28/4149153/experts-even-higher-costs-and.html
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Monday, December 12, 2011
New Report from Congressman Markey Details Conspiracy to Delay, Weaken US Nuclear Safety in Wake of Fukushima
By lwoodruff @ 3:16 PM :: 520 Views :: 0 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Action Alert!
Link to Press Release: http://markey.house.gov/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=4635&Itemid=125

Link to Full Report: http://markey.house.gov/docs/regulatory_meltdown_12.09.11.2.pdf
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Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Loan Request by Uranium-Enrichment Firm Upends Politics as Usual
By lwoodruff @ 2:26 PM :: 184 Views :: 0 Comments :: Nuclear Power, SRA News Releases
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/25/business/loan-request-by-uranium-enrichment-concern-shakes-up-political-sides.html?pagewanted=1&_r=2&sq=uranium%20matt%20wald&st=cse&scp=1

Excerpt: AREVA, a French firm, got a loan commitment from the Energy Department to build a similar plant in Eagle Rock, Idaho, although, because the Fukushima accident has cut the demand for nuclear fuel, it has not decided whether to proceed. The AREVA project was considered lower risk than Piketon because its technology is proven.

John R. Longenecker, a consultant in the nuclear fuel business, said the problem for USEC was that there were too many other players in the market in a world awash in enrichment capacity. The industry had hoped for a renaissance that would result in many more reactors, he said, but “if that happened, I blinked and missed it.”

And there are large inventories of highly enriched uranium from decades of past production, much of it from decommissioned weapons. “We’ve got 100 years of high-enriched uranium in storage,” Mr. Longenecker said. With additional material coming out of uranium weapons, there is enough “probably for 1,000 years of whatever naval fuel we need.”        

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Thursday, November 17, 2011
Why Idaho’s Nuclear Watchdog Isn’t Worried about Payette County Reactor -- Liz Woodruff
By bbrailsford @ 10:18 AM :: 361 Views :: 0 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Action Alert!
For about four years, the Snake River Alliance has had an almost cartoonish nemesis: Alternate Energy Holdings Incorporated. At times our work to stop AEHI has been a central effort of our organization. For example, when AEHI first came to Idaho in 2007, we weren’t sure what the company was about, and we looked into its plans closely. It quickly became apparent that AEHI was selling nothing more than a bunch of hot air (in the form of cheap stock) and that the real threat was not a nuclear reactor, but rather a scheme to take the money of hard-working Idahoans who might invest in this impossible nuclear reactor proposal. 
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
NRC License Ignores Fukushima -- Liz Woodruff
By bbrailsford @ 5:58 PM :: 341 Views :: 3 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Action Alert!
Last week, the Snake River Alliance learned that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission had granted a license to the French Based company, Areva, to build a uranium enrichment factory in Idaho, near Idaho Falls.
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