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October. Halloween. Ghosts and goblins. Just for the fun of it, we give ourselves a scare. But this October has the potential for something truly frightening. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission may decide this month if Utah will be the final resting place for Italy's low-level radioactive waste. That would be a bad thing for the nation, and for Utah in particular. Our No. 1 industry, tourism, would suffer. So would economic development. "World's Nuclear Waste Dumping Ground." It's not the kind of thing you put on a sign at the state border, or on chamber of commerce brochures. It's not the kind of reputation you want to have.
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Salmon River Uranium Development Site; Notice of Completion of Remediation at Salmon River Uranium Development Site, Near North Fork, ID ACTION: Notice of completion of remediation at the Salmon River Uranium Development Site, near North Fork, Idaho.
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The Snake River Alliance has secured a Boise-area attorney and is working to address a pending lawsuit, Executive Director Andrea Shipley announced in a press release Wednesday afternoon. Alternate Energy Holdings Inc., the company behind a proposed 1,600-megawatt nuclear power plant in Elmore County, sued the nuclear watchdog group on Aug. 22 after a television interview in which Shipley called the company "scammers." The suit was filed in district court in Ada County.
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Two congressmen argue in a letter sent Wednesday that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacks power to grant a license for Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions to import 20,000 tons of Italian low-level radioactive waste into the United States. Saying they understand a decision may be granted soon on EnergySolutions' request, Reps. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, and Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., ask the NRC to reject the application to bring the waste to American shores because there is no site to store it. "The NRC has no authority to import waste when there is not a facility to ultimately dispose of it," Matheson and Gordon wrote.
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We hope Don Gillispie is better at building a nuclear power plant than he is at building relationships. The man pursuing a nuclear power plant in Elmore County isn't doing his controversial cause too many public relations favors. It's not just that he is at odds with opponents of nuclear power; that tension is pretty much inevitable.
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The Snake River Plain Aquifer is the second largest aquifer in the United States. And it's also one of the best understood, after more than fifty years of research. The U.S. Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the State of Idaho have just completed their own study of the aquifer, beneath the DOE's East Idaho desert site. After a four year investigation, the DOE says the Idaho National Lab has not contaminated any groundwater that would make it unsafe for workers or any of the public.
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AREVA and the University of Idaho signed an agreement on Aug. 20 to share technologies to process nuclear waste in Richland, Wash., according to a recent press release. A new recycling plant soon will be constructed to recover uranium from the ashes of radioactive garbage for recycling into nuclear fuel using an efficient, environmentally friendly technology inspired by decaffeinated coffee.
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Alternate Energy Holdings Inc., the company behind a proposed 1,600-megawatt nuclear power plant in Elmore County, sued the Snake River Alliance on Friday for alleged defamation. The Times-News was unable to get a copy of the suit, filed in district court in Ada County, on Friday afternoon. But a press release from the company stated that it revolves around a comment made by SRA Executive Director Andrea Shipley Aug. 11 on a Boise news broadcast. In a story on KTVB Channel 7 about AEHI's losses in 2007, Shipley said, "These guys are scammers. Regardless of how you feel about nuclear energy, these guys are scamming Idahoans." A copy of the broadcast is still available on KTVB's Web site.
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The company behind a $4.5 billion nuclear power plant proposed for southern Elmore County has lost so much money that it risks going out of business, according to a recently released audit. The report adds to the perceived financial woes of Alternate Energy Holdings Inc. of Eagle, which recently moved its proposed site from Owyhee County, citing high development and infrastructure costs.
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Threaded through every U.S. decision in recent years to either relax environmental protection standards or not enforce more stringent safeguards is one theme: Spare industry of expensive environmental programs and worry about profits while ignoring the environment. Americans know where that national policy has gotten us---greenhouse gases, global warming, accelerated meltdowns of glaciers and threats to human health.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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