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A weekly summary of energy and climate issues. We feature updates from the Legislature and state agencies, Idaho's utilities and regulators, and topical clean energy developments in Idaho and the Northwest - all designed to help you follow and participate in Idaho energy issues.


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Nuclear Waste and Contamination
Friday, January 07, 2011
New INL Waste Shipments Defy '95 Agreement
By lwoodruff @ 5:29 PM :: 1077 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 :: 1339 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Action Alert!
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13741033
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Monday, June 08, 2009
For Immediate Release: Elmore Commissioners Express Concerns about Nuke Rezoning
By lwoodruff @ 4:59 PM :: 1734 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Bruneau nuclear reactor, SRA News Releases

June 8, 2009


Elmore Commissioners Express Concerns about Nuke Rezoning

Elmore County commissioners on Monday raised serious questions about whether to rezone 1,300 acres of prime agricultural land for a speculative nuclear reactor, suggesting the project may fly in the face of the county’s comprehensive plan. Commissioners deferred a vote on the project, however, until next Monday.

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Monday, June 08, 2009
For Immediate Release: Nuclear Regulatory Commission Encouraged to Hold Public Hearings Statewide with Regards to French Company’s Plan for Uranium Enrichment in Idaho
By lwoodruff @ 3:57 PM :: 1429 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination, SRA News Releases
June 3, 2009


Nuclear Regulatory Commission Encouraged to Hold Public Hearings Statewide with Regards to French Company’s Plan for Uranium Enrichment in Idaho

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission will hold an Environmental Impact Statement public scoping hearing Thursday to hear public comment on French-owned Areva’s plans to build a uranium enrichment facility outside of Idaho Falls and in proximity to the Idaho National Laboratory. Areva plans to store its depleted uranium hexafluoride waste on-site.

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Thursday, September 25, 2008
Alliance Shows Documentary Showcasing Nuclear Energy Oct. 5 at The Flicks
By @ 3:20 PM :: 2094 Views :: 1 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, SRA News Releases
The Snake River Alliance announces a documentary called, A Hard Rain. The film looks at the experiences of countries overseas that have gone nuclear, debunks some of the myths of the nuclear industry including by proving that nuclear power is not safe, cheap, healthy and green and with little chance of another Chernobyl happening.
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Friday, July 11, 2008
Idahoans Should Take Note of Areva’s French Nuke Spill
By @ 9:36 AM :: 2349 Views :: 1 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, SRA News Releases
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
Idaho Energy Update: June 11 2008: Questions Abound for Elmore Nuke Plant
By @ 5:19 PM :: 2600 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Bruneau nuclear reactor, Idaho Energy Updates, SRA News Releases
After leaving Owyhee County amid controversy two months ago, Alternate Energy Holdings on Tuesday peddled its as-yet-unfunded nuclear power plant proposal to nearby Elmore County, rolling out another factually challenged presentation that underscored the company’s uphill fight to convince residents to accept its energy scheme.
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008
DOE Sends Yucca Application to NRC; Former NRC Commissioner Says 'These People Have Lost Track of Reality'
By @ 4:25 PM :: 2119 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination
The Department of Energy on Tuesday submitted its long-awaited application to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in hopes of licensing the nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. While DOE’s submittal of the license application was long anticipated, the odds of Yucca actually opening are long as well. Read on for the NRC news release and a take from the L.A. Times.

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Friday, May 16, 2008
Alliance Protests Government's Plan to Ship More Waste to Idaho
By bbrailsford @ 4:30 PM :: 2127 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination, SRA News Releases
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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Thursday, May 01, 2008
Tons of Waste Shipped to Idaho from Kuwait
By @ 11:25 AM :: 2986 Views :: 0 Comments :: :: Nuclear Waste and Contamination, SRA News Releases
6,700 tons of contaminated sand with depleted uranium and lead from Kuwait will be coming to American Ecology in Idaho this month. American Ecology Idaho’s Grand View facility, located 70 miles southeast of Boise in the Owyhee Desert, treats and disposes hazardous waste and non-hazardous industrial wastes and low-activity radioactive material.
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