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Thursday, January 31, 2008

State Subsidies for Uranium Enrichment Plant Would be an Insult to Idahoans
By @ 4:36 PM :: 886 Views :: Nuclear Power, Reprocessing, Plutonium-238, SRA News Releases, Energy Intelligence News Releases

Idaho’s state leaders have no business using taxpayer money to try to lure a French government-controlled uranium enrichment plant to Idaho, the Snake River Alliance said Thursday.

Monday, July 23, 2007

No to nukes
By @ 2:58 PM :: 784 Views :: Nuclear Power, Reprocessing, Clean and Renewable Energy, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Nuclear Weapons, Energy Intelligence News Releases

JAPAN SEES NUCLEAR POWER as a solution to global warming, but it's paying a price. Last week, a magnitude 6.8 earthquake caused dozens of problems at the world's biggest nuclear plant, leading to releases of radioactive elements into the air and ocean and an indefinite shutdown.

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Meeting on nuke waste storage plan threatens to melt down
By Shaun Stamper @ 4:45 PM :: 732 Views :: Nuclear Power, Reprocessing

Over 50 local residents and activists grilled a member of the nuclear-energy industry Thursday night in Athens over a controversial proposal to reuse spent nuclear fuel rods at the former uranium enrichment site in Piketon, Ohio.

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

Rocky Barker's blog: INL chief misses chance to get nuclear converts
By Shaun Stamper @ 11:29 AM :: 640 Views :: Nuclear Power, Reprocessing

Idaho National Laboratory Director John Grossenbacher spoke to a packed house Monday at the Boise City Club about the upcoming resurgence of nuclear power.

Saturday, June 02, 2007

GNEP: Nuclear wolf in sheeps clothing (VIDEO)
By Jeremy Maxand @ 9:52 AM :: 1610 Views :: Nuclear Power, Reprocessing, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Nuclear Weapons, Bruneau nuclear reactor

WATCH: an interview with experts addressing GNEP through the failed history of reprocessing in the US and abroad.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Durbin changes opinion about nuclear plant
By Shaun Stamper @ 1:13 PM :: 649 Views :: Reprocessing

METROPOLIS, Ill. - U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin has withdrawn his support of efforts to lure a nuclear waste recycling facility in Paducah, Ky., saying that he now has concerns about safety.

Thursday, March 29, 2007

S.C. House says no to nuclear waste plan
By Shaun Stamper @ 4:01 PM :: 656 Views :: Reprocessing

COLUMBIA -- A Utah company's push to dump more nuclear waste in Barnwell County suffered a crippling defeat Wednesday that some legislators called historic in its message to the nation: South Carolina wants out of the nuclear waste disposal business after three decades of owning a landfill for the country's radioactive garbage.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Nuke research in Idaho? Sure, if it’s safe
By Shaun Stamper @ 11:09 AM :: 712 Views :: Reprocessing

The huge research facilities proposed by the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership are not your father’s nightmare.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Oregon hearing unleashes objections
By Shaun Stamper @ 10:28 AM :: 679 Views :: Reprocessing

HOOD RIVER, Ore. -- Oregon has strong objections to using the Hanford nuclear reservation to reprocess spent commercial nuclear fuel, a state official said Monday night

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Idaho's next nuclear opportunity
By Shaun Stamper @ 10:19 AM :: 619 Views :: Reprocessing

America's best chance at a nuclear renaissance involves finding ways to efficiently recover spent fuel and reduce the waste headed to a repository. Idaho should be at the vanguard of that work, writes Mike Simpson.

Friday, March 16, 2007

Nuke plan has key glitch
By Shaun Stamper @ 1:33 PM :: 536 Views :: Reprocessing

IDAHO FALLS — Department of Energy officials acknowledged Thursday a proposed nuclear energy program could run contrary to a 12-year- old agreement banning the importation of spent nuclear fuel into Idaho.

Friday, March 16, 2007

Nuclear hearing draws big crowd
By Shaun Stamper @ 1:23 PM :: 479 Views :: Reprocessing

It's too early in the process to say how the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership is going to play out, but one thing resonated clearly at a hearing Thursday night in Idaho Falls: If the U.S. Department of Energy plans to get back into the reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel, eastern Idaho's leaders want the work done here.

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Hanford proposal riles crowd
By Shaun Stamper @ 11:22 AM :: 324 Views :: Reprocessing

Both sides claimed the moral imperative at an overflow hearing Tuesday night to discuss Hanford's possible role in a proposed new national nuclear energy program to reuse spent commercial reactor fuel.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Senators say GNEP funds not assured
By Shaun Stamper @ 4:22 PM :: 341 Views :: Reprocessing

WASHINGTON, March 5 (UPI) -- The energy committee in the U.S. Senate has found "no consensus" on President Bush's international nuclear power and waste plan.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Speak out against flawed plan to jumpstart nuclear power program
By Shaun Stamper @ 3:46 PM :: 336 Views :: Reprocessing

The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership is the Bush administration and the U.S. Department of Energy's deeply flawed plan to resuscitate nuclear power plants worldwide. They make it sound so easy. All it will take is billions of your (taxpayers') money.

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