IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Scientists from around the country are meeting in Idaho Falls this week to discuss technical problems plaguing a nuclear waste treatment plant there.
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is investigating a recent incident at a plant that manufactures radioactive products in Idaho Falls.
IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Two government lab researchers are in the process of licensing technology that could improve disposing of and tracking radioactive waste.
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho official says the U.S. Department of Energy has given the state a two-month deadline to waive parts of an agreement to clean up nuclear waste
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. Tom Dougan of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program tells the Post Register the spent fuel from the ship's eight reactors will arrive at the Naval Reactors Facility at the Idaho National L
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. The Post Register reports in a story published Wednesday that the federal agency failed to meet a September deadline to begin treating the waste at the Integrated Waste Treatm
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...
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
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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. The agency in a statement released Saturday says it found elevated levels of the radioactive isotopes iodine-131, cesium-137 and cesium-134...
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...
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 consequences
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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 issue
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
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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. Japan's nuclear crisis deepened dramatically yesterday...
Top Story Podcast 3/14/11: First hour: Should we rethink the use of nuclear power in light of the Japanese disaster? Randy Stapilus with Idaho Legislative update. Second hour: The libs want us scared of nuclear power...it's gonna kill us all
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Seeing the devastation in Japan, this makes me wonder how safe the US nuclear power plants would be in an earthquake or tsunami? Would we be ready if this happened here?