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Friday, May 16, 2008

Alliance Protests Government's Plan to Ship More Waste to Idaho
By bbrailsford @ 4:30 PM :: 362 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.

Friday, May 16, 2008

Idaho's New Nuclear Friend Areva Faces NRC Probe
By spederson @ 3:03 PM :: 353 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Nuclear Power, SRA News Releases

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is looking into whether Areva NP, Inc., violated NRC transportation regulations during a shipment of equipment to a Tennessee nuclear power power plant. Areva is the same French-controlled company Idaho officials assiduously courted - and threw millions of dollars in Idaho tax freebies at - to convince the company to build its uranium enrichment factory in Idaho Falls.

Tuesday, May 06, 2008

No Good Site for Dangerous Uranium Enrichment Plant
By spederson @ 1:56 PM :: 502 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, SRA News Releases

Tuesday’s announcement by French-controlled Areva, Inc., that it selected Idaho for its proposed uranium enrichment plant puts Idaho in the unenviable position of contributing to an industry that’s both dangerously risky and bad energy policy, the Snake River Alliance said.

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Tons of Waste Shipped to Idaho from Kuwait
By @ 11:25 AM :: 515 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.

Friday, April 25, 2008

Nuclear Power is Not the Answer for Idaho
By @ 3:57 PM :: 498 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Nuclear Power, Clean and Renewable Energy, SRA News Releases

The Idaho National Laboratory welcomed Patrick Moore, a paid spokesman of the nuclear industry and self described environmentalist, to speak to the Idaho Environmental Forum in Boise this afternoon. “The good news is that Idahoans are having a conversation about climate change,” said Andrea Shipley, Snake River Alliance executive director. “But nuclear power is still not the answer."

Friday, April 04, 2008

Nomad Nuke Plant Ditches Owyhee County; Targets Elmore
By @ 1:19 PM :: 659 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Nuclear Power, Bruneau nuclear reactor, SRA News Releases

BOISE – Friday’s announcement by the Idaho Energy Complex that it’s bailing out of Owyhee County in favor of adjacent Elmore County should send chills through the new target for the proposed merchant nuclear power plant, the Snake River Alliance said. “The last thing Idaho needs is a nomad nuclear power plant developer bouncing from county to county, looking for the best deal for his outrageously bad idea,” Alliance Executive Director Andrea Shipley said.

Wednesday, April 02, 2008

Another Session of Missed Opportunities as Legislature Skirts Energy Issues
By @ 2:50 PM :: 518 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Clean and Renewable Energy, SRA News Releases

BOISE - The Idaho Legislature completed another session this week in which lawmakers ducked key energy and climate issues, and also failed to implement a single recommendation contained in the 2007 Idaho Energy Plan, the Snake River Alliance said.

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Idahoans Gather on April Fool’s Day to Say No to Areva, the French-based Nuclear Giant
By @ 12:39 PM :: 531 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, SRA News Releases

BOISE, April 1, 2008—The Snake River Alliance, Idaho’s nuclear watchdog and advocate for clean energy, will be joined by other concerned Idahoans for a rally outside the state annex building on April Fool’s day at 12:30 pm to tell Areva, the French-based Nuclear giant that Idahoans do not want a uranium enrichment facility built outside Idaho Falls.

Friday, March 07, 2008

Alliance Commends Craig, Simpson on DOE Cleanup Funding
By @ 11:41 AM :: 461 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Nuclear Waste and Contamination, SRA News Releases

The Snake River Alliance commends Senator Larry Craig and Representative Mike Simpson. Both signed letters to the leaders of the Senate and House Budget Committees objecting to the serious cuts in DOE cleanup funding proposed by the Bush Administration for next year.

Thursday, January 31, 2008

State Subsidies for Uranium Enrichment Plant Would be an Insult to Idahoans
By @ 4:36 PM :: 887 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: 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.

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