Idaho National Laboratory

The U.S. government said Thursday that Idaho is its preferred choice ahead of Tennessee for a test reactor to be built as part of an effort to revamp the nation’s fading nuclear power industry by developing safer fuel and power plants.

The atom plays a big role in Arco.

Total bluster. It's virtue signaling.

Idaho and the U.S. Department of Energy have signed a deal on the handling of spent nuclear fuel from a reactor at the Idaho National Laboratory.

Idaho State Police and emergency crews are on the scene of a crash involving a bus and fuel tanker near the Idaho National Laboratory

An Idaho nuclear testing facility will host an innovation center for private developers to test the latest nuclear technology

Idaho might be the home of a test nuclear reactor intended to advance the United States ability to generate energy

Rankings are based on examination of data for the last decade and a half.

Federal officials gave the Idaho National Laboratory positive ratings and determined it earned 97 percent of the total available fee in a recent performance evaluation.

A nuclear fuels test facility in Idaho has resumed operation after being on standby for more than 20 years.

My diner tour took me to Arco over the weekend.  Boy, was I surprised when I got to town and discovered a parade.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Officials in eastern Idaho say they've started a process to remove 5,700 cubic yards of highly radioactive waste from an eastern Idaho federal nuclear facility.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal officials are requesting a 20-year extension involving the storage at an Idaho facility of reactor core debris from the partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal officials say a small-scale version of a key component of an eastern Idaho radioactive waste treatment facility that has so far failed to operate will be tested in Colorado.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Navy and U.S. Department of Energy have announced that they'll build a $1.65 billion facility at a nuclear site in eastern Idaho that will handle fuel waste from the nation's fleet of nuclear-powered warships.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The Navy and U.S. Department of Energy want to build a $1.6 billion facility at a nuclear site in eastern Idaho that would handle fuel waste from the nation's fleet of nuclear-powered warships through at least 2060.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Officials say a Utah energy cooperative is narrowing down its selections for a site to build a nuclear reactor in eastern Idaho.

The Seattle Times reported some great news. The Feds are allegedly considering making Idaho a destination for nuclear waste. I've seen enough movies to know that this normally doesn't end well for the place that has the nuclear waste.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A former Idaho governor has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to force the U.S. Department of Energy to release information about proposed shipments of spent commercial nuclear fuel to an Idaho facility.

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 a…