This episode opens with a bone to pick: a federal plan the discussion says would reprocess fuel rods at the INL and accept a third of the nation’s radioactive waste, atop the Snake River Aquifer. The episode recounts the 1950–1983 era of liquefied waste injected into the ground that reached the aquifer, invokes Three Mile […]
Let me start with the fact that the federal government controls 61.9% of Idaho’s land or about 32.8 of its 52.9 million acres. Unfortunately, as the players in Washington change so do the objectives for our land. We can all remember Lava Ridge where the BLM gave final approval in Dec. 2024 to a 104,000 […]
In January of this year Governor Butch Otter backed a deal to bring more nuclear waste into the INL under protest by two former governors, Phil Batt and Cecil Andrus, who said the deal goes against an agreement made back in 1995 concerning spent nuclear waste at the INL.