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| Friday, July 11, 2008 |
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Idahoans Should Take Note of Areva’s French Nuke Spill
By Sandy Pederson @ 9:36 AM :: 114 Views :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, SRA News Releases
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The French-owned company that Idaho legislators and other officials lured to Idaho Falls with taxpayer-funded subsidies is battling public outrage at home over its handling of a uranium leak at one of its French nuclear plants. Areva, the nuclear giant courted by Idaho officials hoping it would bring its uranium enrichment plant to eastern Idaho, is under fire for the timing of its notification of a radioactive leak that prompted government-ordered bans on drinking tainted waters as well as swimming and fishing in them.
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| Wednesday, June 11, 2008 |
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Oppose the Nuclear Power Plant in Elmore County
By Sandy Pederson @ 8:41 AM :: 390 Views :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Idaho Energy Updates, Action Alert!
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The Snake River Alliance held a public meeting at the Mountain Home Library on July 1st from 6-8:30 pm to discuss AEHI's proposal for a nuclear power plant on the Snake River near Hammett. We are in the process of helping a group of citizens, who attended the meeting, from Elmore and Owyhee Counties form their own coalition to oppose the plant. If you want to be part of this group please contact the Alliance.
To act today, contact the policy makers who will decide on whether the plant is allowed or not:
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| Friday, May 16, 2008 |
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Alliance Protests Government's Plan to Ship More Waste to Idaho
By Beatrice Brailsford @ 4:30 PM :: 361 Views :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination, SRA News Releases
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Plutonium-contaminated waste from nuclear bomb production remains hazardous for a quarter of a million years. By law, it must be isolated from the human biosphere in a deep geologic repository. Enormous quantities of plutonium-contaminated waste have been shipped to Idaho since the early 1950s. The Department of Energy has now announced plans to ship even more plutonium-contaminated waste to Idaho without adequate environmental analysis. Some of the waste planned for shipment here might never be eligible for disposal at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant and could remain stored above the Snake River Aquifer indefinitely.
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| Tuesday, April 01, 2008 |
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Appeals Court Supports Idaho in All Means All Case
By Beatrice Brailsford @ 3:15 PM :: 488 Views :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination
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The State of Idaho’s efforts to force the Department of Energy to dig up plutonium-contaminated waste buried above the Snake River Aquifer began 35 years ago. On March 17, 2008, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed a lower court decision that the DOE is obligated to remove that waste from Idaho. That decision is forcing the DOE and its regulators—the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency—to reassess the plan to dig up only 4.8 acres of the 36 acres that contain plutonium-contaminated waste, which is called “transuranic.”
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| Wednesday, March 19, 2008 |
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More on Flawed Response to Radioactive Accident
By Beatrice Brailsford @ 2:17 PM :: 427 Views :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination
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Radioactive material is inherently dangerous. There are 266 licensed users of radioactive material in Idaho, including medical, commercial and industrial users. Eighty-two of those are commercial users. One commercial user is Sabia, a San Diego-based firm with a facility in Idaho Falls. It produces and services machines that use gamma rays to identify elements in coal so that it meets specifications for producing power. A Sabia worker was exposed to strontium-90 on Friday, February 29. The following wrap-up story and editorial from the Idaho Falls newspaper tell the tale.
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Thanks to our members, major donors, and these foundations for making our work possible: Bullitt, Lightfoot, Ploughshares, Patagonia, and New Belgium Brewing.
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