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Nuclear Waste and Contamination
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
INL's Waste and Idaho's Water -- Beatrice Brailsford
By bbrailsford @ 5:39 PM :: 224 Views :: 1 Comments :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Action Alert!
The Idaho National Laboratory wants to build a new nuclear dump so it can continue to bury very radioactive waste above the Snake River Aquifer for fifty more years. What we’ve seen so far on the plan is an environmental assessment so cursory it cannot be used for a decision as serious as whether or not to bury nuclear waste above Idaho’s drinking water.
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Nuclear Waste and Politics: Dangers Ahead -- Beatrice Brailsford
By bbrailsford @ 1:08 PM :: 321 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 :: 498 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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Thursday, April 14, 2011
Taking Part in Democracy -- Lisa Reppell
By bbrailsford @ 3:17 PM :: 773 Views :: 2 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Nuclear Weapons, Action Alert!

Against a backdrop of cherry blossoms, extreme weather patterns, and frantic, last minute federal budget negotiations, I had the privilege of joining the Snake River Alliance and the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability for the 23rd annual DC Lobby Days in our nation’s capital. 
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Saturday, March 12, 2011
Taking Your Voice to the Nation's Capital -- DC Days 2011
By bbrailsford @ 3:01 PM :: 808 Views :: 1 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Nuclear Weapons, Action Alert!
For more than two decades the Snake River Alliance has had a consistent presence in Washington, DC, thanks to your support for DC Days, a remarkably successful annual event sponsored by the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability.
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Saturday, March 12, 2011
Nuclear Waste -- Now What? Public meeting in May
By bbrailsford @ 1:59 PM :: 697 Views :: 0 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Action Alert!
All nuclear waste is hazardous. But certain waste streams are particularly gnarly. Greater-than-Class-C waste is among the nastiest, and it might come here.
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Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Alliance Questions NRC Green Light for Areva Uranium Enrichment Factory
By lwoodruff @ 4:12 PM :: 933 Views :: 0 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, SRA News Releases
The federal government’s announcement Monday that a proposed uranium enrichment factory outside of Idaho Falls passed its environmental review with flying colors comes as no surprise, but raises serious questions about the quality of the environmental review and the government’s failure to address scores of questions raised by concerned Idahoans, the Snake River Alliance said.
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Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Secret Deal Aims Nuclear Waste at Idaho
By bbrailsford @ 7:48 PM :: 1032 Views :: 3 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Action Alert!
The State of Idaho has signed a secretly negotiated deal that will allow shipments of highly radioactive commercial nuclear waste to the Idaho National Laboratory (INL). It violates the spirit and intent of the 1995 agreement between Idaho and the U.S. Department of Energy forbidding such shipments into Idaho.
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Friday, January 07, 2011
New INL Waste Shipments Defy '95 Agreement
By lwoodruff @ 5:29 PM :: 949 Views :: 0 Comments :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination, SRA News Releases
A surprise announcement last week that the state of Idaho will allow unprecedented shipments of highly radioactive commercial nuclear waste to the Idaho National Laboratory undermines the spirit and intent of the 1995 agreement between Idaho and the U.S. Department of Energy forbidding such shipments into Idaho, the Snake River Alliance said.
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Sunday, November 08, 2009
Scientists Criticize Plans to Dispose of Depleted Uranium at Utah Site
By lwoodruff @ 11:20 AM :: 1234 Views :: 0 Comments :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Action Alert!
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13741033
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