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Friday, May 16, 2008

Alliance Protests Government's Plan to Ship More Waste to Idaho
By bbrailsford @ 4:30 PM :: 10 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.

Thursday, May 01, 2008

Tons of Waste Shipped to Idaho from Kuwait
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:: 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.

Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Appeals Court Supports Idaho in All Means All Case
By bbrailsford @ 3:15 PM :: 280 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Nuclear Waste and Contamination

The State of Idaho’s efforts to force the Department of Energy to dig up plutonium-contaminated waste buried above the Snake River Aquifer began 35 years ago. On March 17, 2008, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed a lower court decision that the DOE is obligated to remove that waste from Idaho. That decision is forcing the DOE and its regulators—the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality and the Environmental Protection Agency—to reassess the plan to dig up only 4.8 acres of the 36 acres that contain plutonium-contaminated waste, which is called “transuranic.”

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 :: 296 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.

Wednesday, March 19, 2008

More on Flawed Response to Radioactive Accident
By bbrailsford @ 2:17 PM :: 225 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Nuclear Waste and Contamination

Radioactive material is inherently dangerous. There are 266 licensed users of radioactive material in Idaho, including medical, commercial and industrial users. Eighty-two of those are commercial users. One commercial user is Sabia, a San Diego-based firm with a facility in Idaho Falls. It produces and services machines that use gamma rays to identify elements in coal so that it meets specifications for producing power. A Sabia worker was exposed to strontium-90 on Friday, February 29. The following wrap-up story and editorial from the Idaho Falls newspaper tell the tale.

Friday, March 07, 2008

Alliance Commends Craig, Simpson on DOE Cleanup Funding
By @ 11:41 AM :: 249 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.

Friday, March 07, 2008

Say NO to Uranium Enrichment Plant
By @ 11:34 AM :: 283 Views :: 1 Comments ::

:: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Action Alert

Areva, a giant nuclear corporation controlled by the French government, first saw how compliant Idaho’s state and local governments can be when it came here to push the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership. Now it’s come back to eastern Idaho to look for a building site—and financial incentives—for a uranium enrichment plant.

Monday, July 23, 2007

No to nukes
By @ 2:58 PM :: 585 Views :: 2 Comments ::

:: 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.

Wednesday, July 18, 2007

Japan Nuke Plant Leak Worse Than Thought
By @ 3:54 PM :: 469 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Nuclear Power, Nuclear Waste and Contamination

An earthquake-wracked nuclear power plant was ordered closed indefinitely Wednesday amid growing anger over revelations that damage was much worse than initially announced and mounting international concern about Japan's nuclear stewardship.

Tuesday, June 05, 2007

38 Drums of Radioactive Waste Unaccounted-For
By sstamper @ 4:27 PM :: 464 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Nuclear Waste and Contamination, Nuclear Weapons

Los Alamos National Laboratory can't account for 38 containers of radioactive waste materials after completion of a four-month inventory conducted at its Area G nuclear dump site.

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