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INL employees picket | KIDK CBS 3 - News, Weather and Sports - Idaho Falls - Pocatello ... - 0 views

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    "After months of failed negotiations, members of the local unions that represent bus drivers, maintenance personnel, dispatchers, and the United Steel Workers, held an informational picket to let the community know about issues they have with Battelle Energy Alliance, the company who operates the INL. This coming Monday, the contract between the company and the unions will end at midnight. Negotiations have been taking place since April, but so far, no resolution has been met. A lack of communication, loss of seniority rights, and problems with labor relations are all reasons the group says they're picketing today. The main issue for the bus drivers is one proposal from Battelle would force them to take a four and a half hour mid-day, unpaid break. "
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Idaho Mountain Express: We need whistleblowers - 0 views

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    It's disheartening to see factories that churn out the most hellacious waste in the world plop down into Idaho lava fields, set up high-paying jobs, and then become integrated into the area via churches, spirited Little League ball teams and 4-H clubs. When something dreadful occurs at a nuclear site, often our culture covers it up. Whistleblowers are terrified of repercussions, being shunned by society and worse. Few want to be known as killing the goose with the golden eggs, even if they are speckled with plutonium. Three years ago, right before Christmas, there was a news splash at the Los Alamos, N.M., laboratory. Five workers were exposed to the highly carcinogenic PU-239. It took several days before this information came out to the public. Then it was through the Project on Government Oversight that co-workers coughed this up to, rather than their own trusted government and contractor.
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LocalNews8 - Arco Sisters Digitizing Every Record in INL History - 0 views

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    Three Arco sisters are proving you can do anything when you work together. They're taking on the massive job of digitizing every record in INL history. In 2007 Bertha Jones, Lydia Gonzales and Berniece Hansen purchased a machine made by Kirtas technology. It acts like a scanner but much faster. The machine can digitize 2,400 pages every hour.
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NBC Newschannel 6 - DOE Wants Public Comment on Plan to Recycle Nuclear Fuels - 0 views

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    The United States Department of Energy wants nuclear power to be a part of our country's strategy, when it comes to supplying Americans with energy. There have been public hearings all over the country about the D.O.E.'s latest draft proposal. Thursday night there was a meeting in Idaho Falls.
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Fort Mill Times - Nuclear employee files whistle-blower lawsuit - Fort Mill, SC - 0 views

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    An employee at a nuclear facility in eastern Idaho has filed a whistle-blower lawsuit in federal court, contending her employer retaliated against her for reporting safety violations. Lea Ann Allen earlier this month sued CWI, which is cleaning up radioactive waste at the U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory. The lawsuit alleges that safety violations Allen reported included shipping contaminated materials, exposing workers to radiation, and using faulty equipment to measure radiation exposure.
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IDAHO MOUNTAIN EXPRESS: INL contractor to stay until 2014 Click to view our online Ad ... - 0 views

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    The U.S. Department of Energy has decided to retain the contractor charged with running the Idaho National Laboratory nuclear and research complex near Arco. INL officials announced Monday that the DOE has determined it will allow Battelle Energy Alliance to complete the duration of its 10-year contract to run the federally owned complex through September 2014. The decision was made pursuant to a special assessment mandated by Battelle's 2004 contract. A clause in the contract required the DOE to review the contractor's performance by Sept. 30 and then decide whether to reduce the term of the contract.
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Radiation exposure report faults E. Idaho company - The Olympian - 0 views

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    An eastern Idaho company appears to have violated two safety measures last February that resulted in the exposure of four workers to radioactive material, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says. In the 33-page report and letter to the company released earlier this week and obtained by the Post Register, the commission said it is considering increased enforcement action against Sabia Inc., though it has not made a final determination and has not issued a notice of violation.
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Washington workers don't like DOE plan to send waste to Idaho | News Updates | Idaho St... - 0 views

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    Union workers in Hanford, Wash., protested the Federal Building in nearby Richland Thursday to call attention to changes in the way some radioactive waste will be handled, the Tri-City Herald newspaper reported. As many as 50 workers held signs saying "Tri-City $$$ going to Idaho" and "Don't Outsource Employment" cars from the Department of Energy site in Hanford slowed and honked. DOE plans to send 1,000 drums of transuranic waste - most of it debris contaminated with plutonium - to Idaho for compaction and then shipment to a repository in New Mexico for disposal, the paper reported.
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State says funds from nuke waste agreement have created 5,000 jobs in E. Idaho - 0 views

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    The state reported it had completed distribution of $30 million in federal funds to assist economic development in eastern Idaho Oct. 9, as part of a broad-ranging agreement between the U.S. Department of Energy, the state and the U.S. Navy over spent nuclear fuel stored at DOE's Idaho site.
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NBC Newschannel 6 - Investigation of INL/Snake River Aquifer Contamination Completed - 0 views

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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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LocalNews8.com Idaho Falls - Radioactive waste containers had filters removed - 0 views

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    IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) - The U.S. Department of Energy has investigated the removal and discarding of filters from eight drums containing radioactive waste at the Idaho National Laboratory.
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Times-News: Idaho watchdog group challenges planned nuclear shipments to INL - 0 views

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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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LocalNews8.com Idaho Falls, Pocatello - INL Whistleblower Claims Victory - 0 views

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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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