Nuclear

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — A Navy spokesman says spent nuclear fuel from the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise that is being decommissioned Dec. 1 will be sent to eastern Idaho for study and storage

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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy has asked Idaho officials for an extension of one year on deadlines involving cleanup of high-level radioactive waste at the Idaho National Laboratory in eastern Idaho

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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Securities and Exchange Commission lawyers want a federal judge to again freeze assets of a would-be Idaho nuclear power developer, saying its founder hid use of the company's dwindling cash for a sham investment scheme

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Top Story Podcast 4/28/11: First hour - Obama's birth certificate and related conspiracies, CSI Auto Tech Car Show, Cops. Second hour - Nuclear power...is it even as dangerous as coal power?  The libs would have you believe you belong in jail if you are pro-nuke, especially after the situation in Japan.   Read more here

The Environmental Protection Agency says air monitors in Boise have detected low levels of radioactive material from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, but the levels are far below public health concern

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What will the long-term solution be here?? How will they keep these reactors from a total meltdown?

"The dumping was intended both to help cool the reactor and to replenish water in a pool holding spent fuel rods, Toyama said. The plant's owner, Tokyo Electric Power Co., said earlier that the pool was nearly

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Top Story Podcast 3/16/11: First hour: Teens and sexting - Just let them do it? Second hour: State of the City, potassium iodide pills flying off the shelves.

First hour: Teens who "sext."  Just let them do it?  Or should there be serious consequ

A Uof I nuclear engineer says the situation in Japan could very well hault the nuclear energy program here in the U.S. for a while.  Several experts say the Japanese authorities are underplaying the severity of the incident there, particularly on a scale called INES used to rank nuclear incidents. The Japanese have so far rated the accident a four on a one-to-seven scale, but that rating was issued on Saturday and since then the situation has worsened dramatically. 

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Top Story Podcast 3/15/11: First hour: Dr. Akira Tokuhiro, Steve Millington. Second Hour: How the president handles a crisis.

With all the crisis in the world today, President Obama's Saturday message was about....unequal pay for women.  REALLY?  What about the budget s

The death toll is rising in Japan and there is still plenty of concern about the possibility of a nuclear disaster. More than one million people are still without power and water and in some places, food

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