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Nuclear Power
Monday, January 23, 2012
Jan 23 ID Energy Update: Energy Plan, AEHI Woes, and More
By lwoodruff @ 4:59 PM :: 64 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 :: 47 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 :: 223 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 :: 74 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 :: 238 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 :: 238 Views :: 2 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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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Nuclear Waste and Politics: Dangers Ahead -- Beatrice Brailsford
By bbrailsford @ 1:08 PM :: 314 Views :: 3 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Action Alert!
For years now, the nuclear power industry has been telling us that we are in the midst of a “Nuclear Renaissance,” that nuclear power can be re-born again if only the government would do two things: Throw US taxpayer dollars at the corporations that want to build new reactors and uranium enrichment plants. “Solve” the nuclear waste problem. 
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Wednesday, August 17, 2011
The Five Ws: U.S. Must Rethink Nuclear Power -- Liz Woodruff
By bbrailsford @ 5:34 PM :: 484 Views :: 2 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Nuclear Weapons, Action Alert!
There are a number of show-stopping problems with nuclear power. We’ve broken them down and categorized them into Waste – Water – Wall Street – Wait – Weapons.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Send the NRC a Reality Check -- Beatrice Brailsford
By bbrailsford @ 10:21 AM :: 451 Views :: 0 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Action Alert!
Nuclear Regulatory Commission regulations require the agency to thoroughly reassess Areva’s uranium enrichment plans because of “changed circumstances bearing on environmental concerns and bearing on the proposed action or its impacts.” Click here to send a message to the NRC.
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Wednesday, July 20, 2011
New Fraud Charges Against AEHI -- Ken Miller
By bbrailsford @ 9:35 AM :: 667 Views :: 3 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Action Alert!
As if things weren’t bad enough for Idaho’s wandering nuclear reactor salesman Don Gillispie and his Alternate Energy Holdings, Inc., the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed additional fraud charges against the two, beefing up its federal court civil case that threatens to kill the company and its project once and for all.
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