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SRA News Releases
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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Thursday, January 19, 2012
Post Register: DOE skewers INL management over radiation accident
By lwoodruff @ 6:02 PM :: 71 Views :: 0 Comments :: SRA News Releases

DOE skewers INL management over radiation accident
SVEN BERG
sberg@postregister.com

A report released Wednesday places the blame for the radiation exposure of 16 Idaho National Laboratory employees squarely on the shoulders of laboratory management.

Missed opportunities, inadequate safety assessments and ineffective training were among INL's failures that contributed to the exposure, according to a 123-page report by the U.S. Department of Energy, which oversees the lab.

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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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Thursday, December 22, 2011
14,000 U.S. Deaths Tied to Fukushima Reactor Disaster Fallout
By lwoodruff @ 4:40 PM :: 49 Views :: 0 Comments :: SRA News Releases
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/medical-journal-article--14000-us-deaths-tied-to-fukushima-reactor-disaster-fallout-135859288.html
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Areva’s Delay in Idaho Uranium Factory No Surprise
By lwoodruff @ 9:56 AM :: 374 Views :: 0 Comments :: SRA News Releases

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Dec. 13, 2011
CONTACT: Snake River Alliance
Liz Woodruff, Executive Director
208-344-9161 (w); 208-871-4597 (c)

Areva’s Delay in Idaho Uranium Factory No Surprise

Snake River Alliance Has Questioned Need for Project Since Beginning

Today’s announcement by French-owned Areva Enrichment Services that it is suspending construction of its planned uranium enrichment factory near Idaho Falls comes as no surprise and is further evidence that the so-called “nuclear renaissance” is a mirage, the Snake River Alliance said.

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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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Friday, November 11, 2011
Sodium Fire at INL
By lwoodruff @ 1:53 PM :: 267 Views :: 0 Comments :: INL News Releases, SRA News Releases
INL News Release 

Date: Friday, Nov. 11, 2011 
Time: 2:05 p.m. 
#3 

Response personnel reenter Sodium Boiler Building 

Emergency personnel continue to respond to a sodium reaction on the INL site. 
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Tuesday, November 08, 2011
INL employees receive radiological exposure at Materials and Fuels Complex
By lwoodruff @ 5:48 PM :: 287 Views :: 0 Comments :: SRA News Releases, INL Incident Reports
INL News Release 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Nov. 9, 2011
 

NEWS MEDIA CONTACTS: 
Ethan Huffman, 208-526-0660, ethan.huffman@inl.gov 
Misty Benjamin, 208-526-5940, misty.benjamin@inl.gov 

Update on employee exposure incident; officials available to answer questions Wednesday 
  
Officials have concluded the emergency response to Tuesday’s radiation exposure event, but medical evaluation of exposed workers and investigation into the incident continue. 
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
For Immediate Release: Alliance Questions NRC’s OK of Idaho Uranium Factory
By lwoodruff @ 3:19 PM :: 309 Views :: 0 Comments :: SRA News Releases
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Oct. 12, 2011
CONTACT: Snake River Alliance
Liz Woodruff, Executive Director
208-344-9161 (w); 208-871-4597 (c)

Alliance Questions NRC’s OK of Idaho Uranium Factory
Announcement No Surprise, but Need for Enrichment Plant Still Unproven

The federal government continued its unflinching support of a French-owned uranium enrichment factory outside of Idaho Falls Wednesday, but the Snake River Alliance expressed doubt that the plant will be built because the company is on shaky financial footing and because the market for more enriched uranium has collapsed along with the so-called “nuclear renaissance.”
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Idaho Statesman--Our view: Idaho has had this debate before: Storage is not a ‘mission’ with a future
By lwoodruff @ 7:49 AM :: 120 Views :: 0 Comments :: SRA News Releases
http://www.idahostatesman.com/2011/09/18/1803379/idaho-has-had-this-debate-beforestorage.html
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