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Federal officials say there are no injuries at a nuclear facility in eastern Idaho following the release of radioactive material from a ruptured 55-gallon (208-liter) barrel inside a containment structure.

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.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — The director of the Idaho National Laboratory says it's problematic whether a small quantity of spent nuclear fuel needed for research will be allowed into Idaho this spring.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Idaho officials are fining the federal government after the U.S. Department of Energy failed to start a radioactive waste treatment facility before the deadline.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy says workers have successfully removed and packaged about 10,000 cubic yards of exhumed hazardous and radioactive waste stored for decades at the department's 890-square-mile site in eastern Idaho.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — A new report estimates that constructing a small nuclear reactor in eastern Idaho would create or sustain nearly 13,000 local jobs.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — A Utah energy cooperative has selected a site to build a small commercial nuclear reactor in eastern Idaho.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz has announced $82 million for nuclear energy projects in 28 states as part of the government's plan to reduce carbon emissions.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — A cleanup contractor says radioactive material contaminated the skin and clothing of three workers during an incident earlier this month at a U.S. Department of Energy site in the Idaho desert.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — The federal government has fined a contractor for an Idaho nuclear plant after an electrical explosion there last year.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Department of Energy lists the Idaho National Laboratory as a possible site for storing about 1,300 dump truck loads of low level radioactive waste.

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — A new report says a 2014 radiation leak at an Idaho research facility was caused by compromised equipment and faulty air monitors.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The new director of Idaho's federal nuclear facility says he sees plenty of opportunity to make it the nation's premier energy security lab while also bolstering the region's economy.

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

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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

Technicians from the Idaho based contractor wrapped up work last week on Pit 9 from the Radioactive Waste Management Complex located at the eastern Idaho research lab. The Post Register reports the achievement marks the end of a cleanup process that started in the 1990s...

If you have ever wanted to see the insides of the Idaho National Laboratory’s nuclear research facilities in eastern Idaho listen up! A bus will pick up Magic Valley participants around 8 a.m. Thursday, and return them around 6 p.m. According to the lab, Thursday’s tour is part of an INL outreach effort to have a dialogue and answer questions about INL's mission and the safety of INL facilities,