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Peter Rickards: Idaho's 'new waste deal' is nothing short of false advertising | Opinion | Idaho Statesman

Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:24:57 -0000

No deal! The politicians promoting the "new" nuclear waste deal have broken yet another promise to Idaho families who depend on clean water. This is over a ton of plutonium buried over our water. Billions of cancer-causing plutonium particles spread all over. They promised to remove it all in 1970 and again in 1995.

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Times-News: Nuclear plant folks deflect questions by blaming the questioner

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:35:35 -0000

Correspondent Blair Koch took one for the team last month. At the end of June we asked Koch, who often writes for us but who is not on staff, to cover an Idaho Energy Complex presentation in Glenns Ferry.

The IEC is a 1,600-megawatt nuclear power plant that a private firm, Alternate Energy Holdings, hopes to build near Mountain Home.

In hindsight, it would have been more humane to ask her to French-kiss a rattler.

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Idaho Examiner: Nuclear Tour de France"Common Sense News"

Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:27:29 -0000

Over the July 4th holiday week, I visited France, as a guest of its government, to tour the AREVA corporation’s outstanding nuclear facilities which enable the French to provide 80 percent of their electricity through emission-free nuclear power. I also visited the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial to pay my respects to our fallen American soldiers from World War II.

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6,700 Tons of Contaminated Sand Shipped From Kuwait to Boise

Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:53:27 -0000

Recently the emirate of Kuwait required the United States Department of Defense to remove the contamination. Consequently, over 6,700 tons of contaminated soil sand and other residue was collected and has been shipped back to the United States for burial by American Ecology at Boise Idaho.

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Boise Weekly - Idaho's Only Alternative: News: News: Waste not want not

Fri, 11 Jul 2008 08:43:19 -0000

When Gov. C. L. "Butch" Otter stood with two former Idaho governors on July 1 to announce an agreement between the state and the U.S. Department of Energy on radioactive waste cleanup, the message was: Getting rid of nuclear waste is good for Idaho's people and environment.

"We enter into this agreement confident that it is in the best interest of the aquifer, the Idaho National Laboratory and all Idahoans," Otter said.

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LocalNews8.com Idaho Falls, Pocatello - INL Whistleblower Claims Victory

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 19:04:33 -0000

Localnews 8 has learned Friday night that The Department of Energy Office of Hearings and Appeals ruled in favor of a whistleblower at the INL in several claims he made.

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Mountain Home News: Anti-nuke activist arrested at nuclear plant meeting

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:21:28 -0000

The Glenns Ferry Opera Theatre was filled nearly to capacity on the evening of June 16 as Elmore County citizens gathered for an informational meeting hosted by Idaho Energy Complex (IEC).

The company, which had originally sought to build a 1,600 megawatt nuclear power plant in Owyhee County, has now set its sights on a 1,400-acre piece of land outside of Hammett. The meeting was conducted to provide citizens information about the plant , and nuclear industry, and serve as a question and answer forum.

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KTRV Fox 12 - Nuclear Reactor Proposed for Elmore County

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:16:27 -0000

Elmore County, Idaho -- A public meeting was being held in Mountain Home to inform residents of plans to build a nuclear reactor in Elmore County.\n\nThe reactor would be just once piece of a nuclear energy complex that would make Idaho a leader in the development of clean energy.

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Idaho Mountain Express: Questions linger about Idaho uranium plant - June 11, 2008

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 19:16:02 -0000

With the heady news and celebration that AREVA, the French nuclear company, has chosen Idaho for its uranium enrichment plant, I offer the first of many questions that must be answered as the champagne goes flat, the bubbles burst and we come back down to Earth.

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Times-News: Idaho watchdog group challenges planned nuclear shipments to INL

Fri, 23 May 2008 18:53:55 -0000

An Idaho nuclear watchdog group has asked the U.S. Department of Energy to reconsider bringing about 9,000 cubic meters of nuclear waste materials into the state in the near future, part of a DOE effort to consolidate its treatment program.

A decision approved by the department earlier this year would send protective gear, laboratory materials and other contaminated items from 14 facilities to the Idaho National Laboratory for processing before disposing of them at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in New Mexico.

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Deseret News | Plan to store Italian nuclear waste rejected

Tue, 13 May 2008 07:37:32 -0000

BOISE — The EnergySolutions proposal to store radioactive waste from Italy in Utah received a unanimous thumbs down Thursday from the Northwest Interstate Compact on Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management.

Utah's compact committee member Bill Sinclair, picked by Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr., read from a "clarifying" resolution after a 90-minute closed session to discuss a federal lawsuit EnergySolutions filed this week. Representatives on the eight-state compact all voted to approve the resolution.

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Hanford News : Southwest Idaho company making millions by accepting toxic waste

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:58:46 -0000

Railcars loaded with 6,700 tons of radioactive waste will roll across the Treasure Valley this week, the cargo destined for a remote site south of Boise on a sagebrush-dotted plateau near the Snake River.

And it won't be the first time.

This scenario has occurred regularly over the past several years. The site Idaho's only public hazardous waste dump has received more than 1 million tons of radioactive materials from the federal government during the past five years.

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UPDATE: Areva chooses Idaho site instead of Richland | Tri-City Herald : Mid-Columbia news

Fri, 09 May 2008 08:27:56 -0000

Areva will not be building a $2 billion uranium enrichment facility in Richland, instead picking a site close to the Idaho National Laboratory, Areva announced today.

“While we had several attractive sites to choose from, we opted for Idaho Falls, which has strong ties to nuclear energy, and which welcomed Areva and its proposed enrichment facility to become a new member of its community,” said Michael Murphy, president of Areva, in a statement.

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Idaho Press-Tribune: Contaminated sand slated for Idaho dump site

Fri, 02 May 2008 19:00:24 -0000

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Nearly 80 rail cars loaded with contaminated sand from Kuwait are headed to a desert dump site in southwestern Idaho.

Idaho Department of Environmental Quality Director Brian Monson says the American Ecology Co. is moving about 6,700 tons of sand to a hazardous waste disposal site in the Owyhee desert 70 miles southeast of Boise.

The sand is from Camp Doha, a U.S. Army Base in Kuwait. The sand absorbed depleted uranium after ammunition caught fire.

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Times-News: Court requires INL to remove nuclear waste

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:59:51 -0000

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NoNukes VideoConference site

Wed, 26 Mar 2008 06:12:02 -0000

This website attempts to provide a format for citizens to get up to speed as quickly as possible without overwhelm; when overwhelm happens people walk away. This home page is oriented to Idaho but the website in general is oriented nationally.

Highlights and Sticky Notes:

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Boise Weekly: Nuclear Fallout

Sun, 23 Mar 2008 21:14:56 -0000

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Times-News: Air Force considers nuclear reactor in Idaho

Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:48:36 -0000

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Idaho House Committee Prints Nuclear Power Tax Incentive Bills - Business - redOrbit

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:02:26 -0000

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Hanford News: Energy Department to ship nuclear waste to Idaho for treatment

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 05:17:48 -0000

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