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Citizens Guide to the Idaho National Laboratory

The Citizens Guide describes the INL site's operating history, radioactive waste hazards, Superfund cleanup process and health studies. Over 200 pages long, the guide is a resource for individuals and public interest groups seeking information on the Department of Energy's historical, current, and planned operations in Idaho. Click here to read the Citizens Guide to the Idaho National Laboratory online or download individual report sections from our 'Citizens Guide to INL' webpage.


EDI Newsletters Including Article Titles


  • EDI April 2024 Newsletter
    • Department of Energy issues Draft Environmental Impact Statement for High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU)
    • Department of Energy's Road to Nowhere Repository Research over the Last Decade
    • Department of Energy and Nuclear Regulatory Commission continue to ignore that NRC cannot legally authorize away-from-reactor spent nuclear fuel storage
    • Department of Energy is falling farther behind in research of spent nuclear fuel safety during inevitable long-term storage
    • Department of Energy doesn't know or won't say how long spent nuclear fuel will remain safe - as disposal remains elusive and many decades away, at best
    • Still no design of a Dry Transfer Station to repackage spent nuclear fuel
    • Department of Energy Secretary sets horrible example and ignores ALARA by placing hands on Dry Storage Vault
  • EDI March 2024 Newsletter
    • Department of Energy's Push to Triple Nuclear Energy Ignores Cost and Difficulty of Managing and Disposing of Spent Nuclear Fuel
    • Department of Energy Idaho Cleanup Project Citizens Advisory Board Downplays or Omits Key Information Citizens Need to Know
    • Transuranic Waste Drum Corrosion Issues Require Expensive Overpacks to Ship to WIPP
    • Integrated Waste Treatment Unit inoperable due to clog ups
    • DOE Investigating Calcine Vitrification, But Keeps Direct Disposal in Idaho as an Option
    • DOE considering vitrification of INL's calcine HLW, but vitrification efforts struggle at Hanford or Savannah River Site
    • Longstanding Department of Energy NEPA Implementation Problems Illuminated by Idaho Cleanup Problems
    • Fortieth Anniversary of Three Mile Island Accident and Why It Matters Now
  • EDI February 2024 Newsletter
    • Energy Northwest in Washington State still promoting X-energy reactor project that would leave ratepayers with spent nuclear fuel management expenses far beyond the 60-yr reactor design life
    • High construction costs ended the NuScale project, but construction costs are not the only unaffordable costs of nuclear energy
    • Nuclear promoters continue to avoid realistic disclosure of the cost of spent nuclear fuel disposal or of reprocessing
    • Still no repository identified for Department of Energy and Naval Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Waste
    • Department of Energy has no program for a permanent repository and it must be stressed that Consolidated Interim Storage Sites are not a solution for the growing nuclear waste problem
    • Department of Energy advised to strengthen public trust and confidence back in 1998 and again in 2021, as DOE hires social scientists and gives money to its consortia but continues to make no progress on any repository for the nation's spent nuclear fuel
    • Safety of spent nuclear fuel during long-term storage still unknown
    • Savannah River Watch concerns over DOE's Continually Evolving Surplus Plutonium Disposition Plans
    • Idaho Capital Sun reports on former nuclear weapons testing harm to Montana and New Mexico, as Congress denies compensation
    • More misguided bills to advance nuclear energy: Atomic Energy Advancement Act HR 6544 and S.1111
  • EDI January 2024 Newsletter
    • Watch the movie about Oppenheimer - Then think about the WWII atomic bombings of Nagasaki and Hiroshima and the escalation of nuclear weapons
    • Idaho Public Television presents a glowing depiction of the Naval Reactors Facility in 'Idaho Experience: Idaho's Nuclear Navy' - but there's a lot more to the story
    • Nuclear energy is not the answer to combatting climate change and the silliness of the new nuclear energy goals by COP23
    • Tracking the tardy, cancelled or otherwise irrelevant to combatting climate change nuclear reactor projects promoted by the Department of Energy
    • Peace on Earth hoped for, as US gives $ billions in weapons funding, nuclear power plants remain targets of war, and the US denies the long-lasting problem of depleted uranium artillery
  • EDI December 2023 Newsletter
    • With rising construction costs forecast, and amid securities fraud allegations, NuScale UAMPS project cancelled
    • Bill Gate-backed TerraPower Natrium Sodium-Cooled Reactor is a highly risky venture
    • X-Energy aborts effort to offer public stock but is pushing a project in Washington state
    • U.S. military revokes plan for Oklo Micro-reactor at Alaska Air Force base
    • Tracking the tardy, cancelled or otherwise irrelevant to combatting climate change nuclear reactor projects promoted by the Department of Energy
    • Response from the Department of Energy to my questions to the Idaho Cleanup Project Citizens Advisory Board, many months late
  • EDI November 2023 Newsletter
    • Is the solution to the growing spent nuclear fuel problem as simple was giving states more legal authority?
    • Idaho Cleanup Project seeks to forever poison Idaho by leaving the Calcine Waste over the Snake River Plain Aquifer
    • Idaho Cleanup Project Integrated Waste Treatment Unit Treats Eight Percent of the Liquid Waste
    • Department of Energy Announces Idaho National Lab Land Use Opportunity
    • With ongoing tritium infested groundwater and air near the Idaho National Laboratory, let's look at tritium health risks
    • NuScale investor woes and dismal outlook for UAMPS project
  • EDI October 2023 Newsletter
    • NuScale's faltering 6-module SMR project at INL to be delayed
    • Safety of spent nuclear fuel during long-term dry storage, as well as during transportation, still unknown
    • Radiological consequences of breach of a spent nuclear fuel canister still unknown
    • Will the public be compensated for a radiological release from a spent nuclear fuel storage or transportation accident? Liability coverage ranges from about $13 billion to zero dollars
    • U.S. Senate Bill S.2443 proposes funding for Department of Energy consolidated interim storage of spent nuclear fuel
    • How much ionizing radiation dose do you get from routine storage of spent nuclear fuel in dry storage?
    • Carbon-14 production from nuclear reactors, reprocessing and dry storage
    • Department of Energy continues the coverup of ionizing radiation health harm
  • EDI September 2023 Newsletter
    • Top Twenty Questions Government Officials Must Answer Regarding Expansion of Nuclear Energy
    • Department of Energy unveils its growing consortia and the push to find a community willing to accept consolidated interim storage during U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board summer meeting in Idaho Falls
    • Court Rules NRC License of Proposed Consolidated Interim Storage in Texas Vacated
    • Holtec Alleged to Have Sought to Misrepresent Proposed Consolidated Spent Fuel Facility Financial Peril
    • Department of Energy Deletes 2024 WIPP Closure Date and Refuses to Admit Surplus Plutonium Disposition Impacts
    • Three Mile Island, Study Finds Radiation Caused Elevated Thyroid Cancers in Population Exposed to TMI (Part 5)
  • Special Addition to the EDI August 2023 Newsletter
    • Top Twenty Questions About Expanding Nuclear Energy
  • EDI August 2023 Newsletter
    • NuScale's New US460 Design Seeks NRC Approval, and NuScale Seeks to Add Subscribers as Construction Cost Estimates Rise
    • The Health Physics Society continues to ignore the full extent of radiation health harm - When will they ever learn?
    • Radiation Worker Epidemiology Findings Still Not Being Heeded
    • Radiation Worker Inhalation at the Columbia Generating Station and Other Safety Issues
    • On the 78th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, what has been learned about excess rates of leukemia from ionizing radiation?
    • Three Mile Island, Recent Meta-Analysis Inadvertently Highlights Three Mile Island Epidemiology Problems (Part 4)
  • EDI July 2023 Newsletter
    • Biased epidemiology practiced for thyroid cancer following the Fukushima nuclear disaster - Fortunately, there's a Toolkit for calling out the distortions
    • Kate Brown's book Manual For Survival - A Chernobyl Guide to the Future - explains the deliberate avoidance of adequate epidemiology by IAEA, WHO and UNSCEAR
    • Jay M. Gould's study of breast cancer rates near nuclear reactors is still relevant and it points out the elevated rates of breast cancer near the Idaho National Laboratory
    • Another health impact found in Chernobyl liquidators - brain deterioration and poor mental health
    • Increased rates of infant mortality, birth defects and genetic damage from ionizing radiation
    • Fraudulent lung count results by the Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory
    • Three Mile Island Unit 2: A Look at the Increased Cancer Deaths and Infant Deaths Caused by the 1979 Accident(Part 3)
  • EDI June 2023 Newsletter
    • The Department of Energy is promoting a plethora of proposed new nuclear reactors, none of which will be deployed in time to matter in the fight against climate change (Natrium, X-energy, NuScale and others)
    • Idaho LINE Commission eager to give nuclear promotors big tax breaks, guts laws that protect the public, and press for reduced safety regulatory oversight
    • Is Pressing for Reduced Regulatory Rigor for New Nuclear Reactors Wise?
    • With Loosening of Reactor Siting Regulations and Safety Oversight, the Public Should Be Reminded That Their Homes, Property and Lives Are at Stake
    • DOE contractor sought to import spent fuel from Germany, but never developed a reprocessing method for the gas-cooled reactor fuel
    • Workers, Families harmed by Idaho National Laboratory exposures testify at meeting
    • Three Mile Island Unit 2: A Look at the Inadequate Worker Radiation Records for the 1979 TMI accident (Part 2)
  • EDI May 2023 Newsletter
    • Idaho Cleanup Project has over 10,000 transuranic waste drums, unknown number at risk of deflagration
    • Idaho Cleanup Project Citizens Advisory Board Meeting announces IWTU is running with 10 percent radioactive waste
    • Los Alamos National Laboratory safety problems topic of meeting in Santa Fe with NNSA's Jill Hruby
    • NuScale continues redesign of facility, claims it is safe but refuses to discuss its risk assessment in safety review meeting
    • Three Mile Island Unit 2: What most people don't know about the 1979 nuclear reactor meltdown (Part 1)
  • EDI April 2023 Newsletter
    • Idaho Legislators declare nuclear energy 'clean' and either don't care or don't understand the harm to human health and the unborn
    • Idaho National Laboratory releases inadequate draft Environmental Assessment on proposed Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment
    • Butte County, Idaho is suing DOE over storage of Three Mile Island Unit 2 spent fuel at INL
  • EDI March 2023 Newsletter
    • Idaho Cleanup Project Citizens Advisory Board Meeting announces vitrification for calcine and other news
    • Idaho Falls City Club hosts Idaho Environmental Coalition's Ty Blackford, on nuclear waste from nuclear reactors
    • NuScale Cost Estimates Rising, But Construction Has Not Begun; And NuScale Spent Fuel Disposal Problems Worse Than Existing Light-water Reactors
    • Oregon Legislators Seeking Law Changes Currently Barring New Nuclear Energy Reactors
    • TerraPower's Natrium, a Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor, Facing Delays in Commencing Construction
  • EDI February 2023 Newsletter
    • New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory facing increased workload and increased accident risks to package surplus plutonium for WIPP disposal
    • New Mexico lawmakers are debating whether New Mexico's consent must be required for the Holtec spent nuclear fuel
  • EDI January 2023 Newsletter
    • Recap of the egregious safety shortcuts at the Los Alamos National Laboratory for heat source Pu-238 and weapons pit production
    • Zero funding for the Versatile Test Reactor, the proposed test reactor that only uses electricity and does not generate electricity
    • TRISO nuclear fuel production for microreactors, over its life cycle is an enormous threat
    • Integrated Waste Treatment Unit preparing for radiological operations in January 2023
  • EDI December 2022 Newsletter
    • Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Public Hearing on cleanup, increased weapons pit production and heat source Pu-238 accident risks at the Los Alamos National Laboratory
    • The NRC issues a Supplement to the final EIS on Holtec's Consolidated Interim Storage Facility for Spent Nuclear Fuel in New Mexico
    • Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm gives DNFSB the finger regarding delays in addressing seismic vulnerabilities
    • Idaho's IWTU, if it ever operates, will need about double the waste storage vaults
    • The Stibnite Gold Project EIS, masterfully written - obscures how Perpetua's profits are prioritized over permanent destruction of Idaho wilderness
  • EDI November 2022 Newsletter
    • The ongoing failure of U.S. disposition plans for surplus plutonium
    • There is no disposition plan for the Zero Power Physics Reactor (ZPPR) plutonium fuel plates at the Idaho National Laboratory, nor are there comprehensive plans for safe interim storage
    • Department of Energy fessed up to three episodes of waste shipping issues from the Idaho National Laboratory
    • Tribute to Chuck Broscious
  • EDI October 2022 Newsletter
    • A review of the 'refusal to dismiss' the case alleging that Battelle Energy Alliance management was well-aware of known extremely dangerous hazard associated with damaged ZPPR fuel plates that contaminated workers in 2011
    • Year after year, Battelle Energy Alliance ignored the in-facility worker hazards at the ZPPR Facility
    • Year after year, Battelle Energy Alliance ignored the possible buildup of plutonium hydrides at the ZPPR Facility
    • Battelle Energy Alliance's inadequate radiological control at the ZPPR Facility
    • When it comes to radiation dose from an inhalation of plutonium, particle size and solubility matter
    • Department of Energy Surplus Plutonium Disposition Plans for the ZPPR Fuel
    • Department of Energy's Gloss-Over Consent-Based Summary
  • EDI September 2022 Newsletter
    • Mackay Dam Failure, Far More Likely Than Previously Thought - No Apparent Action by State and Federal Agencies
    • Idaho Department of Water Resources Rulemaking for Water Dams and Tailings Dams Continues With Inexplicable Safety Reductions
  • EDI August 2022 Newsletter
    • Texas argues that Supreme Court Ruling nullifies NRC's authority to license the interim spent nuclear fuel facility in Texas
    • New Mexico Governor vows that interim spent nuclear fuel will not be allowed in the state
    • Department of Energy Announces Decision to Select INL as the location to build the Versatile Test Reactor
    • Santa Susanna Field Laboratory and all its problems are similar to Idaho National Laboratory's problems
    • Department of Water Resources continues working on proposed rule changes for dams and mine tailings dams - to reduce regulations, not to improve safety
  • EDI July 2022 Newsletter
    • A review of the stated hematologic effect of radiation exposure to the Pacific Marshall Islanders from the 1954 Castle Bravo nuclear weapons test
    • New Book About the Wide-Reaching Harm of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Waste by Robert A. Jacobs
    • Idaho Department of Water Resources sets its sites on ignoring any flooding beyond 1-in-100-year levels as Montana's recent flooding exceeds 1-in-500-year flood levels
    • Department of Energy continues to avoid discussing ongoing safety problems related to transuranic waste handling at the Idaho Cleanup Project
    • Study Finds That Small Modular Reactors Worsen Spent Nuclear Fuel Disposal Issues
  • EDI June 2022 Newsletter
    • Idaho Department of Water Resources changing the 'dam rules': Reducing requirements for new dams and actually eliminating dam release capacity safety requirements for existing dams (and mine tailings impoundment structures)
    • What does changing the 'dam rules' mean for the Mackay Dam?
    • Problem waste where WIPP discovered liquid in TRUPACT-II container returned to Idaho
    • Idaho Department of Environmental Quality Public Comment Period on Hazardous Waste Permit at RWMC
    • Department of Energy Oversight report finds worsening safety management problems at the INL's Battelle Energy Alliance
    • Department of Energy issues Environmental Impact Statement on Versatile Test Reactor
  • EDI May 2022 Newsletter
    • Department of Energy Citizens Advisory Board Meeting Update on IWTU's Simulant Confirmatory Runs: De-fluidization Event, Excessive Carbonate Bypass and Numerous Operational and Equipment Problems
    • Are Department of Energy Citizens Advisory Board Meeting Presentations Designed to Gloss Over the Facts?
    • Department of Energy Celebrates Leaving Most of the Radioactive Waste at RWMC Buried
    • Independent Report finds NuScale Small Modular Reactors Too Expensive and Will Take Too Long to Deploy
    • Can Ionizing Radiation cause Down Syndrome? The Answer is Yes.
    • The Problem of Highly Uncertain Radiation Doses from Plutonium and Other Actinides Has Not Been Solved
    • When it comes to Inhaling Plutonium or Americium, Particle Size Matters
  • EDI April 2022 Newsletter
    • Old, Unsafe Nuclear Weapons Pit Production at Los Alamos, Now to Operate 24/7, As Pit Costs Balloon
    • HALEU Fuel for the TerraPower's Proposed Sodium-Cooled Natrium Nuclear Plants Could be Impacted by Ban on Russian Imports of Low-Enriched Uranium
    • Battelle Energy's Creative Approach to Internal Dose Estimation
    • Dose Conversion Factors for Inhalation of Type S Plutonium and Americium Have Increased
    • Which is worse? A plutonium intake or an americium intake?
    • Hemopoietic Syndrome from Inhalation of Plutonium or Americium Causes a Drop in Blood Lymphocytes, But Rarely Studied
  • EDI March 2022 Newsletter
    • Ten Years of the Idaho Cleanup Project Trying to Get the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit to Operate
    • California and Nevada not Embracing Nuclear Energy
    • Department of Energy Seeks Input on Consent-Based Siting of Nuclear Waste
    • The Poop on Department of Energy Worker Bioassay Programs
    • Why Ignoring the Plutonium-241 Releases and Bioassay is a Problem
  • EDI February 2022 Newsletter
    • US Ecology Idaho Grand View is virtually unregulated and not designed for the radioactive waste it is accepting from around the country and around the world
    • Biden Administration wrong to agree high-level waste from nuclear reprocessing can be reclassified by the Department of Energy
    • Beware of the Department of Energy's Waste Incidental to Reprocessing Reclassification Effort at Hanford
    • INL Buried Waste Exhumation of 'Targeted' Waste Leaves Most of the Buried Radioactive Waste Over the Snake River Plain Aquifer
    • NRC Denies Oklo Aurora Microreactor Licensing Application
    • Denial of Accident Causes and Consequences 60 Years After SL-1 Reactor Accident
    • Top Ten Lessons Not Learned by the 1961 SL-1 Reactor Accident
  • EDI January 2022 Newsletter
    • SL-1 Accident 60 Years Ago, and the Department of Energy Continues Denial of Accident Causes and Consequences
    • IWTU Permit Modification Granted by Idaho DEQ
    • Idaho Department of Environmental Quality Continues Acquiescing to Department of Energy Requests
    • Poorly Designed and Inadequately Maintained Mackay Dam Poses Radiological Risks to the INL
    • Ongoing Idaho National Laboratory Airborne Contamination - Where Does It Go?
  • EDI December 2021 Newsletter
    • Public Meeting Scheduled for IWTU Permit Modification
    • Molten Chloride Reactor Experiment slated to be built at the Idaho National Laboratory
    • Reduced Air Permitting Oversight by Idaho DEQ, Despite Glaring Radiological Release Omissions from INL Radioactive Waste Ponds
    • Examining the Increasing Radioactive Contamination in Southeast Idaho from the Idaho National Laboratory - Special Report by the Environmental Defense Institute
    • Department of Defense's Proposed Mobile Microreactors (or Project Pele) Public Comment Submittal
  • EDI November 2021 Newsletter
    • October Idaho Cleanup Project Citizens Advisory Board Meeting Highlights
    • Idaho Cleanup Project Citizens Advisory Board Meeting on the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit
    • Department of Defense's Proposed Mobile Microreactors (or Project Pele) Public Comment Meetings in Fort Hall
  • EDI October 2021 Newsletter
    • Military Issues Draft EIS on Polluting and Unsafe Gas-Cooled Prototype Mobile Microreactors
    • Understanding some of the misinformation in the Project Pele or Prototype Mobile Microreactor draft EIS
    • Understanding the distortion of Effective Whole-Body Doses in millirem presented by the Department of Energy
    • What Really Happened in Southeast Idaho in 2002 to 2003? The Search for the Cause of Microcephaly in SE Idaho
  • EDI September 2021 Newsletter
    • Idaho Cleanup Project Citizens Advisory Board held a Virtual Meeting in August
    • Idaho Leadership in Nuclear Energy (LINE) meeting emphasis on how to grease legislation for Advanced Reactors
    • Idaho Department of Environmental Quality Downplays the High Levels of Radioactivity Detected in 2019 from the INL
    • INL's Radionuclide Emissions in 2019, Unusual and Elevated Levels of Uranium-234, Uranium-238, Zinc-65 and Chlorine-36
  • EDI August 2021 Newsletter
    • NuScale scales down SMR project planned for Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS) slated to be constructed at the Idaho National Laboratory
    • Many Radiation Workers and Nuclear Industry Professionals Don't Even Know How Much More Vulnerable Women and Children are to Ionizing Radiation
    • Department of Energy's Ridiculous Statements About VTR Radiation Harm
    • Human Evidence That Genetic Effects of Radiation Are Far More Likely Than ICRP Predicts
  • EDI July 2021 Newsletter
    • Department of Energy Ousts Fluor Idaho, Selects New Idaho Cleanup Project Contractor called the 'Idaho Environmental Coalition'
    • Idaho Cleanup Project Status for June 2021
    • Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) Redesign Continues
    • Department of Energy's Billion Dollars' Worth of Recycled Uranium From INTEC
    • Department of Energy Publishes Final Environmental Assessment for MARVEL Microreactor
  • EDI June 2021 Newsletter
    • Don't Be Fooled - Nuclear Promoter's Aggressive Federal Lobbying Will Hinder Real Renewable Energy Solutions
    • TerraPower, X-energy and NuScale speakers promote their reactors at the Idaho LINE Commission meeting
    • Department of Energy INL Cleanup Status presented to the Idaho LINE Commission meeting
    • U.S. Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board (NWTRB) issues April report understates the U.S. spent nuclear waste disposal problems
    • NRC Requests Additional Information from Holtec Regarding Proposed Interim Spent Fuel Storage in New Mexico
  • EDI May 2021 Newsletter
    • Canada and the US Department of Energy Promoting Small Nuclear Reactors
    • Department of Energy promoting large clusters of MARVEL reactors
    • US Department of Defense Project Pele for Microreactor Development
    • Chernobyl Radioactive Contamination Continues Spreading and Harming People
    • More radioactive phosphogypsum stacks planned for Pocatello
  • EDI April 2021 Newsletter
    • With Southeast Idaho COVID-19 Hotspots, It's Time to Review the Effect of Radiation on the Immune System
    • Viral Hepatitis Ignored by Energy Employee Compensation Program Despite Evidence of Increase by Ionizing Radiation Exposure
    • Increases in Radiation Exposure and Increases in Chromosome Aberrations in Blood Lymphocytes
    • Fukushima Twenty Years On
    • Understanding Bone-Seeking Radionuclides, like Americium-241, in our Bodies
    • Unexpected Americium Behavior in the Environment
    • Lets take another gander at the Radionuclides in TRA Ducks
  • EDI March 2021 Newsletter
    • Buried Deep in the Department of Energy's Environmental Impact Statement, DOE Admits Proposed Versatile Test Reactor Accidents Can Be Catastrophic to Southeast Idaho
    • Department of Energy sticking to the misleading characterization that the nation's spent fuel could fit on a football field
    • Department of Energy Already Needs Two Spent Fuel Repositories and Would Need a New One Every Year, If Nuclear Energy Were to Make a Difference for Climate
    • Another Elephant in the Room: The Costs and Risks of Continuing Spent Fuel Storage
  • EDI February 2021 Newsletter
    • INL provides marketing propaganda for TerraPower (and X-energy) and no mention of safety and waste disposal problems
    • Department of Energy gives research money for high-temperature gas-cooled reactor designer X-energy
    • West Valley Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing Plant Waste Disposal Costs Unknown, According to GAO
    • Existing spent nuclear fuel, including commercial SNF at the Idaho National Laboratory on track to miss Idaho Settlement Agreement milestones
    • Idaho Cleanup Project Citizens Advisory Board January 2021 Virtual Meeting
    • Microreactor and gigantic waste disposal issues in the Environmental Assessment of the MARVEL project slated for the Idaho National Laboratory
    • Department of Energy's Versatile Test Reactor Draft Environmental Impact Statement Relies on Inadequate EISs the DOE has Previously Conducted
    • A 2021 Summary of the Dizzying Array of Department of Energy Involvement in Proposed Nuclear Reactors
  • EDI January 2021 Newsletter
    • Department of Energy Releases Draft Environmental Statement of the Versatile Test Reactor
    • Generous Santa Claus Government Funding Slated for Reactor Research, Funding for Reactors and INL in COVID-19 Relief Bill
    • December 2020 Fluor Cleanup Continues, IWTU is not Running, and Fluor Idaho Facing Fines for Drum Explosions
    • December 2020 More INL News Roundup
    • The NRC Required Canistered Spent Nuclear Fuel To Be Retrievable - But It Isn't and Prevalent Canister Storage Poses Huge Safety Risks as Well as Higher Disposal Costs
    • Spent Nuclear Fuel Canister Breaches - The Potential Radiological Releases are Too Scary for the NRC to Admit
    • Vast Amounts of Surplus Weapons Plutonium Slated for WIPP
  • EDI December 2020 Newsletter
    • Generous Congressional Funding for Nuclear Energy Research Bills for 2021
    • Congressional Legislative Efforts for Nuclear Waste Storage and Disposal Appropriations for FY-2020
    • The Nuclear Waste Fund fee is no longer being collected from commercial nuclear power utilities because the Department of Energy has no spent fuel disposal program
    • Yucca Mountain, it's not the uncertainty - it's the pervasive lack of scientific integrity
    • Devil in the details of the Standard Contract with the Department of Energy under the NWPA
    • The last 10 years of repository research shows that the criticality issues are a problem, especially for direct disposal of spent nuclear fuel canisters
  • EDI November 2020 Newsletter
    • U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission cautions that its recent NuScale approval does not mean NRC will approve a NuScale construction permit or an operating license
    • DOE puts up $1.4 Billion for NuScale but quietly abandons the bulk of JUMP research
    • UAMPS small modular reactors don't truly offer clean energy
    • UAMPS Presents at October LINE Meeting, Power Subscriptions Lowering and Nuclear Waste Problems Admitted to be Worse for New Reactors Like NuScale
    • Versatile Test Reactor presentation at the LINE Meeting
  • EDI October 2020 Newsletter
    • Another UAMPS City Withdraws from Proposed NuScale Small Modular Reactor Project Proposed to be built at the INL
    • NuScale's Unresolved Safety Problems Point to Climbing Costs - UAMPS is a Boondoggle in the Making
    • Nuclear Plant Shutdowns and Bailouts
    • Technically Inadequate Processes Used by NRC to Grant 30 Year Life Extension to Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant with Alkali Silica Reaction (ASR) Concrete Degradation Issue
    • Public Comment Submittals on NRC's draft Environmental Impact Statement on Holtec's proposed spent nuclear fuel storage facility in New Mexico
    • Nuclear Research Bill Sponsored by Idaho Lawmakers
  • EDI September 2020 Newsletter
    • NuScale estimated costs just doubled and costs can be expected to continue to rise as the NRC and ACRS poised to approve general design, leaving much of the site-specific design work for later
    • Late-breaking: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued approval of NuScale Small Modular Reactor Design
    • Degrading TMI-2 Spent Fuel Storage at the Idaho National Laboratory, Releasing Radionuclides
    • Medical-Use Cesium-137 Source Contamination Caused by Unsafe Practices by an Idaho Falls, INL spin-off company
    • Idaho Cleanup Project Citizens Advisory Board August Meeting on Status of IWTU Redesign and Testing
    • Idaho Cleanup Project Citizens Advisory Board August Meeting on Status of Transuranic Waste Cleanup
    • Idaho Cleanup Project Citizens Advisory Board August Meeting on Status of Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage
    • Summary of Idaho National Laboratory Cleanup Status as of August 2020
    • Public Comment on NRC's flawed and incomplete draft EIS on Holtec's proposed spent nuclear fuel storage facility in New Mexico
  • EDI August 2020 Newsletter
    • When will the Navy replace the 1957 crumbling spent fuel pool?
    • Rising radiation-induced cancer mortality rates, all largely based on the studies of external radiation doses to World War II atomic bombing survivors
    • Rising radiation-induced cancer incidence rates and higher risks to women and children
    • Department of Energy Issues Revised Dose Concentration Guidelines in 2011, loosening air and water contamination levels, ignoring elevated cancer risks
    • Elevated radiation-induced thyroid cancer incidence in women ignored by Department of Energy regulations
    • Cancer Latent Period, Not Accurately Known
  • EDI July 2020 Newsletter
    • Idaho Department of Environmental Quality hiding more than its INL Oversight program reveals
    • Troubling Increases in U.S. Thyroid Cancer Incidence Rates; And Counties Around the Idaho National Laboratory Roughly Double State and National Thyroid Cancer Rates
    • Understanding the Thyroid Doses in Idaho from Past Nuclear Weapons Testing
    • The Hanford Thyroid Disease Study - What Went Wrong?
  • EDI June 2020 Newsletter
    • Are the elevated cancer rates in Bonneville County and other counties near the Idaho National Laboratory due to INL radiological releases?
    • Strontium-90 not decreasing like it should in garden lettuce and wheat near the Idaho National Laboratory
    • Prominent nuclear activation products at the Idaho National Laboratory, can be spread far and wide - and are often not recognized as INL contamination
    • What yellow-bellied marmots have to tell us about radiological releases from the Idaho National Laboratory
  • EDI May 2020 Newsletter
    • Unsolved Mystery of Iodine-131 in Milk Samples in 1966, Not Attributed to the Idaho National Laboratory or Weapons Testing
    • Radioactive Manganese-54 and why it was in wheat samples near the Idaho National Laboratory in 1963 and 1964
    • Destructive SNAPTRAN Tests at the INL from 1964 to 1966
    • The groundwater monitoring well that the USGS says didn't exist and the NaK and high levels of lead detected in it
    • Tritium trends in the 1980s and efforts to coverup the extent of radioactive waste water flowing beyond the INL
    • Zirconium-95/Niobium-95 in the aquifer at the INL throughout the 1970s shows rapid transit times from INTEC's deepwell injection
  • EDI April 2020 Newsletter
    • Given the High Rate of Thyroid Cancer Idaho Falls, A Review of the Radionuclides that Contribute to Thyroid Cancer
    • Additional Review of the Cancer Rates in the Cancer Data Registry of Idaho
    • Department of Defense Prototype Microreactors would create a dirty bomb target, releasing a million curies to environment
    • The Department of Energy needs to issue a revised INEL HDE that doesn't hide so much about the radiological releases from the Idaho National Laboratory since 1952
    • Radium-228 spikes in our southeast Idaho air and water and why it matters
  • EDI February/March 2020 Newsletter
    • Rate of cancer in Idaho continues to increase, according to Cancer Data Registry of Idaho
    • Cancer Incidence in Butte County - Deadly high and due to the Idaho National Laboratory
    • High levels of uranium-235 in Arco, Idaho occurred from Idaho National Laboratory radiological air emissions
    • Department of Energy's Derived Concentration Guidelines (DCG) are not protective of health
    • Recent changes to the Idaho Settlement Agreement set to pollute SE Idaho
    • DOE acknowledges that last year's fire at the INL increased radiological contamination levels around the globe, but won't provide specifics
    • EPA RadNet air monitoring blackouts are the way nuclear polluters' do business
    • ICP Citizens Advisory Board not endorsing DOE's proposed cleanup funding cuts for 2021
    • 'Challenging Wastes Processed at AMWTP,' No Kidding
    • EDI Comments of Proposed NEPA Process Changes – And the gutting of the NEPA Process is further evidence that citizens should probably abandon all hope
    • The Public Comment Period Opens for the INL Site Treatment Plan
    • Microreactor Disaster in the Making
  • EDI January 2020 Newsletter
    • January 2020 INL News Roundup
    • Department of Energy Decides Environmental Assessment to Allow INL Test Range Expansion to Poison Local Communities is Good Enough
    • Idaho National Laboratory on Track to Escalate Airborne Radiological Releases by a Factor of 170
    • Idaho Department of Environmental Quality Fails to Acknowledge Serious Deficiencies in Fluor Idaho's Corrective Actions for Fluor Idaho's April 2018 Drum Event
    • Finally, Idaho State University Comes Under U.S. NRC Scrutiny
    • Beryllium contamination is widespread at uranium enrichment and nuclear weapons production facilities
    • Contamination from the 'Cleanup' of the Portsmouth Gaseous Enrichment Plant is Getting Attention
    • Nuclear proponents often emphasize that nuclear energy is safe - but it just isn't true
    • Nuclear proponents don't want you to have any concern about elevated levels of man-made radiation, as they work to prevent meaningful epidemiology near nuclear facilities
    • Let's examine the Argonne National Laboratory's explanations in an ANL webpage titled '10 myths about nuclear energy'
  • EDI December 2019 Newsletter
    • Amory Lovins Explains How Investment in Nuclear Energy Hinders Implementing Solutions to Climate Change
    • Fascinating Study of the Explosions Caused During the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster
    • What was the Radiological Release from the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster?
    • Can a Nuclear Reactor Explode Like a Nuclear Bomb?
    • INL Wrong When They Said That a Wife Visiting a Dying Chernobyl Radiation Victim Could Not Have Been Harmed
    • Radiation Worker Reproductive Health Issues Indicated by SL-1 Victim Sperm Damage
    • Interesting Similarities Between the SL-1 and the Chernobyl Nuclear Accidents
    • Understanding Reactivity Insertions - And Why You Should Never Insert a Dollar
    • Just Some of the Lies Told About SL-1 Accident to Coverup the Accident Cause and Consequence
  • EDI November 2019 Newsletter
    • Idaho National Laboratory Evades the Facts of the Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster in its Public Relations Sessions to Downplay the Consequences on Human Health and the Environment
    • Department of Energy Issues Sham Environmental Assessment for Test Range Expansion - Plans to Release Long-Lived Radionuclides into the Air and Neighboring Communities for 15 Years
    • Department of Energy Unraveling the Idaho Settlement Agreement, Misusing Idaho Cleanup Project Citizens Advisory Board for Propaganda
    • Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) Redesigning Air Filters, But If All Goes Well, Expected Air Emissions Are 7 Times Current INL Air Emissions
    • Department of Energy Remains Deceptive About How Much Buried Waste Will Remain Buried After "Cleanup" is Done at RWMC; And About 50,000 Drums Remain to Ship Out of Idaho
    • Sloped Ten to Forty-foot Thick Soil Cap Designed for 1000 Years for the RWMC's Waste That is Toxic for Over 1,000,000 Years
    • AMWTP Removed Prohibition on Treating Pyrophoric Waste and Treated Uranium Deemed Pyrophoric
    • Idaho Department of Environmental Quality Refusing to Conduct Enforcement Actions Against Fluor Idaho's April 2018 Drum Event
  • EDI October 2019 Newsletter
    • Idaho National Laboratory Pushing for Test Range Expansions, With Planned Long-lived Radionuclide Releases
    • GAO Issues Report Discussing High-Level Waste Challenges for the Idaho National Laboratory
    • NRC Extends Idaho National Laboratory's License to Store Three Mile Island Spent Nuclear Fuel
    • Care About Climate Change? Ditch Slow to Build, Expensive, Forever Polluting Nuclear Energy
    • Idaho Department of Environmental Quality Approves of Fluor Idaho and DOE Chemical Compatibility Evaluations for Waste Disposal That are a Sham
    • A Look at Spent Nuclear Fuel and Irradiated Target Material Chemical Separations Processes
    • Nuclear Fuel Cladding Materials and Chemicals From Fuel Reprocessing at INTEC - Why Were They Detected in the Snake River Plain Aquifer?
  • EDI September 2019 Newsletter
    • Small Nuclear Reactor Explosion in Russia Kills Seven People
    • Nuclear Reactor and Nuclear Waste Industries Fail to Adequately Address Hydrogen Explosion Hazard
    • The Revised July 2017 WIPP Chemical Compatibility Requirements Apparently Ignored by Fluor Idaho and Department of Energy Idaho Operations Office
    • PCBs: Aroclor, What's It For?
    • A Comparison of the Three Mile Island Unit 2 Fuel Release Fractions to the SL-1 Derived Release Fractions
    • AMWTP's Flawed Hazardous Waste RCRA Permit Modification Request
    • EIS Scoping Comments for the Proposed Versatile Test Reactor
  • EDI August 2019 Newsletter
    • Seventy-four years after the Trinity Test in New Mexico, National Cancer Institute nears Completion of a radioactive fallout study
    • New Special Exposure Cohort (SEC) Added for the Idaho National Laboratory for INTEC Workers between 1963 and 1970
    • NIOSH investigations of the Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant document all the usual problems in worker radiation dose estimation
    • Fire at Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant in 1998 involved methane generated from aluminum carbide
    • Respiratory Protection Basics: Don't Use a PAPR When You Should Be Wearing SCBA
    • Largest Fire in Idaho National Laboratory's History Started July 23 by Lightning Strike
    • Idaho Gutting Radiological Contamination Protection from Environmental Clean Air Law
    • DOE Refuses to State How Much Radioactive Waste Will Remain Buried After the "Cleanup" of RWMC's Buried Waste
    • NuScale Small Modular Reactors Completes Phase 2 and 3 of U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Review
  • EDI July 2019 Newsletter
    • DOE announced "New" Interpretation of its Radioactive High-Level Waste
    • My Public Comment to the DNFSB Concerning the Four Transuranic Waste Drums that Exploded in April 2018 in Idaho
    • Concerning the Waste Drums that Blew Up, the Department of Energy Blows Off the DNFSB's Concerns
    • Idaho Cleanup Project Citizens Advisory Board Meeting on June 20, 2019, IWTU Status
    • Idaho Cleanup Project Citizens Advisory Board Meeting on June 20, 2019, Transuranic and Mixed Waste Status
    • Elevated Levels of Plutonium and Americium Detected in the Second Quarter of 2018, Several Potential INL Sources
    • DOE Slow Walks Calcine to Nowhere
  • EDI June 2019 Newsletter
    • Ralph Stanton's "Nuclear Nightmare" - A "Must Read" for Radiation Workers and Their Families
    • Leadership in Nuclear Energy (LINE) held May 16 in Idaho Falls
    • Idaho DEQ Rubber-stamps AMWTP RCRA Permit,I Submit Petition for Review
    • NuScale Small Modular Reactors - Might Not Be Safer or Cheaper
    • Atlantic Council issues report promoting nuclear energy, doesn't worry about existing and future radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel disposal
    • Enriched uranium and neptunium contamination at local school in Ohio from Portsmouth uranium enrichment plant undergoing decommissioning by the Department of Energy
    • Hanford's Building 324 project brought to a halt in early April following uncontrolled radiological contamination
    • Uranium and its Radium decay products increase leukemia risk, especially in children
  • EDI May 2019 Newsletter
    • Remembering Whistle-Blower Karen Silkwood and a Look at Her Plutonium Intake
    • Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Finds Transuranic Waste Drum Explosion Hazards Still Not Adequately Mitigated by Fluor Idaho and the Department of Energy
    • Highlights of the Idaho Cleanup Project Citizens Advisory Board Meeting April 25 Meeting
    • Idaho Cleanup Project Citizens Advisory Board Not Told How Much Radioactive Waste Will Remain Buried at INL
    • US Ecology Idaho Update on Last November's Explosion
    • Plutonium-238 More Difficult to Control and Contain than Plutonium-239 - Here's Why
  • EDI April 2019 Newsletter
    • North Korea, One More Time
    • Nuclear Power Plant Construction, Unexpected Repairs and Decommissioning Costs Continue to Climb
    • US Ecology Idaho Resumes Limited Operations,Public Still Not Told What Caused Explosion Last November
    • DNFSB Continues to Review the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit, As Design Modifications and Testing Continue
    • U.S. NRC Agreed Radionuclide Separations Were Not Needed at the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit, But Did Not Approve Waste Reclassification of Sodium-Bearing Waste
    • Degraded Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility Requires Movement of Spent Fuel at Idaho National Laboratory
    • Radiation Emergency Guidance, Initial Estimates of Radiation Dose and Possible Symptoms Involving Bone Marrow and Blood
  • EDI March 2019 Newsletter
    • ICP Citizens Advisory Board Wrestles with DOE's Proposed HLW Interpretation, Focuses on Unanswered Questions about INL's High-Level Waste
    • DOE Explains to the ICP Citizen's Advisory Board That Cost and Uncertainty over Transportation Issues Drove Decision to Close the AMWTP This Year
    • Integrated Waste Treatment Unit Struggles Continue, As DOE Announces Fluor Idaho Contract Up for Grabs
    • ICP CAB Meeting Cites CPP-749 Degradation, But Provides No Information About the Degraded Underground Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage Facility
    • Serious Flaws in the Radiological Monitoring in the Boise Area and the US Ecology Idaho Disposal and Transfer Facilities
    • Two Explosions at Idaho DEQ RCRA-Permitted Facilities in Idaho in 2018 Suggest Idaho DEQ Doing a Bang-Up Job of RCRA Permitting
    • Greenpeace France Issues Report: The Global Crisis of Nuclear Waste
    • U.S. Nuclear Plants Operating Total 98 Amid Growing Financial Problems
    • Versatile Test Reactor Preliminary Cost Estimate
    • Deep Bore Hole Radioactive Waste Disposal Not Dead?
    • EnergySolutions in Utah wants more Depleted Uranium, Lots More
  • EDI February 2019 Newsletter
    • Idaho Leaders and the Department of Energy Not Being Transparent About High-Level Waste Reclassification
    • Idaho Department of Environmental Quality Concerns About DOE's Proposed HLW Reclassification
    • State of Washington Opposes DOE's Proposed HLW Reclassification
    • Idaho Leadership in Nuclear Energy (LINE) Commission Told by DOE That IWTU May Start Up This Year
    • DNFSB Hearing Planned on Idaho Cleanup Project's April 2018 Waste Drum Ruptures
    • Nuclear Microreactors and Nuclear Contamination Coming to Your Neighborhood
    • Former NRC Chairman Provides an Inside Account of NRC Failures as New Bill is Signed to Streamline Nuclear Energy Regulation
    • NuScale Knows UAMPS Easy to Sucker
    • Radioactive Waste Leaking from Waste Disposal at the Marshall Islands Following Nuclear Bomb Tests
    • Cause of U.S. Geological Survey Multilevel Deep Well Contamination Due to Chemical Addition, Well Back in Service
    • Despite the U.S. NRC Spin, There is No Ability to Detect Dry Spent Nuclear Fuel Canister Cracks
  • EDI January 2019 Newsletter
    • If You Care About Human Health and the Environment, You Will Oppose Allowing DOE's HLW Reclassification
    • AMWTP Closure Announced at the Idaho Cleanup Project
    • Recap of H.B. 3053 Wrangling Over Yucca Mountain and Consolidated Interim Storage
    • NRC Fines Holtec for Its Unapproved Cask Change
    • DOE Awards Contract for Versatile Test Reactor Conceptual Design
    • DOE Signs Deal to Use Some of the Power Generated by Proposed NuScale Small Modular Reactors
    • Idaho LINE Meeting Transparency - or Lack Thereof
  • EDI December 2018 Newsletter
    • Following Regs Could Have Prevented Barrel Explosion Last April at the Idaho National Laboratory's Radioactive Waste Management Complex
    • Fluor Idaho Sent High Risk Waste Drums to Energy Solutions in Clive, Utah
    • US Ecology Site in Idaho Explosion Kills Worker
    • Washington State Passes Worker's Comp Law That Riles Department of Energy
    • DOE's HALEU is a Hell of an Idea for Many Reasons, Including High Radionuclide Airborne Emissions
    • U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Finds Problems at San Onofre's Holtec Dry Storage Spent Nuclear Fuel Facility
  • EDI November 2018 Newsletter
    • Fluor Idaho Releases Causal Analysis of Why the Four Drums of Transuranic Waste Overpressurized in April
    • Inadequate Medical Response to Puncture Wound in Transuranic Waste Facility Last June
    • Still No Schedule for Treatment of Sodium Bearing Waste at the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit
    • Citizens Advisory Board Re-Vote on AMWTP Shows CAB Recommendations Do Not Represent Idaho Citizens
    • DOE Focusing on Obtaining ICP Citizens Advisory Board Approval of Reclassifying Radioactive Waste
    • DOE Likes to Grout Radioactive Waste, But Grouting Does Not Immobilize Iodine-129 and Other Radiotoxic Nuclides
    • DOE Request for Public Comment on the U.S. Department of Energy Interpretation of High-Level Radioactive Waste
    • MOX Plant Cancelled at Savannah River
    • DOE Proposes Making High-Assay Low-Enriched Uranium (HALEU) Fuel at the Idaho National Laboratory
    • Spent Fuel and GTCC Waste Proposed for Andrews County, Texas
  • EDI October 2018 Newsletter
    • An October 2018 News Roundup for the Idaho National Laboratory
    • Hurried and Unscheduled Repeat Vote on AMWTP by Idaho Cleanup Project Citizens Advisory Board
    • Department of Energy Promoting Dangerous Fictions and Omissions to ICP Citizens Advisory Board Regarding Waste Reclassification and "Waste Incidental to Reprocessing"
    • Public Comment Period Until November 13 on Idaho DEQ's Partial Permit for Hazardous Waste at the AMWTP
    • Experts Worry That Trump's U.S. EPA is Moving to Loosen Radiation Protection Standards
    • Idaho DEQ Reports Concerning the Elevated Radioactivity in Drinking Water in the Boise Area Don't Identify the Source of the Radioactivity
    • Naval Reactors Facility Studies Their Bioassay Program, Concludes There Was One...At Least After 1980
    • A Recent Report on Radiation-induce Inflammation and Autoimmune Diseases
    • Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) Concludes Radiological Contamination near Coldwater Creek Could Have Increased the Risk of Some Types of Cancer
    • Neutron Doses from Spent Fuel Casks Increased by High Burnup Spent Nuclear Fuel
    • Idaho applies to EPA for authorization of changes to increase its hazardous waste program
    • EDI comment on the Washington State Department of Ecology proposed remediation to the Hanford Plutonium Uranium Extraction (PUREX) Plant Storage Tunnels
  • EDI September 2018 Newsletter
    • Continuing Classified Human Subjects Research Involving the Department of Energy Workers Is Worrisome
    • U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to Focus on Public Perception, Ignoring Numerous Recommendations to Conduct More Rigorous Testing of Spent Nuclear Fuel Transportation Containers
    • Emergency Responders to Spent Nuclear Fuel Transportation Accidents: Will You Know Your Neutron Dose?
    • Polycythemia Vera, Recognized for Decades as being Caused by Radiation, is a Bone Cancer Covered in Energy Worker Illness Compensation
    • Proposed EPA Rule, "Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science" Actually Seeks to Protect Polluters
    • Just Two Problems with U.S. Radiation Protection: Radiation Dose Underestimated and the Harm Underestimated
    • Department of Energy Ignoring the NEPA Process and Seeking to Undo the 1995 Idaho Settlement Agreement
    • Naval Reactors Facilities Known as "NRF" Reviewing Whether Workers Had Adequate Bioassay
  • EDI August 2018 Newsletter
    • Potential Unreviewed Safety Question Affecting Department of Energy Complex Concerning Hydrogen Generation in TRU Waste Drums
    • Radiation Workers at the Idaho National Laboratory and Around the DOE Complex Need to Understand Blood Count Changes That Can Indicate a Significant Radiation Exposure
    • Ill-Conceived Consolidated Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel in New Mexico Proposed by Holtec
    • No Funding Passed to Re-Open the Licensing Process for Yucca Mountain...But Stay Tuned
  • EDI July 2018 Newsletter
    • Senate Seeks "Pilot Program" for Consolidated Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel as Nevada Senator Dean Heller Blocks Bills from the House That Would Ram Through Yucca Mountain Licensing
    • Spent Nuclear Fuel Dry Storage Safety Issues Largely Ignored
    • Department of Energy's Effort to Reclassify Nuclear Waste May Leave High Level Waste in Idaho
    • Hanford Waste Could Come to AMWTP
    • Neutron Exposure During Glovebox Work and Other Handling of Fissile Material at the Idaho National Laboratory and Idaho Cleanup Project
    • More efforts to expand the Radiation Compensation Act (RECA) to more downwinders
    • Review of the Mixed Hazardous Radioactive CERCLA Waste Cleanup Policy at the Radioactive Waste Management Complex Subsurface Disposal Area at the Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory, by Chuck Broscious
  • EDI June 2018 Newsletter
    • Idaho To Miss Important Idaho Settlement Agreement Milestones
    • Idaho LINE Commission Meeting Held in Arco, Idaho
    • DOE Seeking to Back Out of Calcine Cleanup Commitments
    • Naval Reactors Facilities Presentation to the Idaho LINE Commission
    • Another Oversight by IDEQ at INL's HFEF RCRA Program?
    • New Fast Neutron Test Reactor Won't Be Paid For By Reactor Vendors and Would Likely Experience Significant Cost Overruns
    • Department of Energy MOX Plant Canceled After Spending $7 Billion, Now Plans are to Dilute and Bury
    • Proposed 40 Year License for Interim Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage at Holtec Facility in New Mexico
  • EDI May 2018 Newsletter
    • Several Barrels of Waste OverPressurize Within Hours After Being Repackaged at the Idaho Cleanup Project ARP V
    • Subdued Mood About IWTU at April Cleanup Project Citizens Advisory Board Meeting
    • Department of Energy Responds Regarding Possible Continued Missions of the AMWTP Saying Its "Analysis Has Not Been Completed"
    • Deficiencies in Department of Energy Spent Nuclear Fuel Program at the Idaho National Laboratory Highlighted by the US NWTRB
    • Spent Nuclear Fuel and Waste from Fuel Reprocessing Repository Status for 2018
    • What the FUSRAP are These Radioactive Waste Dumps Doing in Idaho?
    • GAO Report on NNSA's Planning for Fuel Enrichment and How It Affects Idaho
    • GAO on Continuing Quality and Cost Problems at Hanford Vit Plant
    • Trump Faces Obstacles to a Korean Deal, Some Self-Inflicted, article by Robert Alvarez
  • EDI April 2018 Newsletter
    • Idaho Cleanup Project Citizens Advisory Board Votes to Request More Information from the Department of Energy Regarding Details of Possible Continued Missions of the AMWTP
    • An Editorial About the 1961 SL-1 Accident History in Response to a February Guest Editorial in the Post Register
    • Stephen D. Hall Writes in the Post Register the "NRF civilian employees excluded from EEOCIPA"
    • Atomic Homefront, a documentary about uranium waste dumped in a landfill in St. Louis, presented in Idaho Falls, points out that this nuclear FUSRAP waste is sent to Idaho
    • A Revised Low Dose and Low Dose Rate Factor Would Raise the Probability of Causation and Result in Fewer Illness CLaim Denials by NIOSH
    • What Went Out the Stack During Radioactive Waste Calcing at the Idaho National Laboratory?
    • Demolition of Hanford Plutonium Processing Plant Halted After 42 Workers Found to Have Inhaled or Ingested Radioactive Particles
  • EDI March 2018 Newsletter
    • LINE Commission and Department of Energy Work to Preserve Radioactive Trash Compactor Facility Jobs
    • Possible Radioactive Operations at IWTU by the End of 2018
    • DOE Finally Mentions to State and to Citizens Advisory Board That Decision to Hot Isostatic Press the Calcine is Up in the Air
    • 92 Idaho Transuranic Waste Shipments to WIPP Since WIPP Reopened Last April
    • NuScale Seeks Tax Relief
    • Radiation Workers and the Rest of Us Should Avoid Contaminated Water
    • Nuclear Weapons and Civilian Nuclear Power - Two Dangerous Interdependent Peas in a Pod - by Chuck Broscious
  • EDI February 2018 Newsletter
    • What's Up With The Radionuclides in Drinking Water Around Boise, Idaho?
    • Radionuclides in Drinking Water in Ammon, Idaho
    • Understanding the Radionuclide MCLs in Drinking Water in Idaho
    • Understanding the Man-Made Radionuclides in Drinking Water in Idaho
    • Gamma Spectrometry - Deconvolution of Multiple Decay Series Behind the Scenes
  • EDI January 2018 Newsletter
    • DOE Downplays Airborne Contamination Released at Hanford
    • Department of Energy Radiation Monitoring Historically Unreliable
    • Understanding Your Lung Count Results
    • Battell's INL Contract Extended to 2024
    • NuScale Small Modular Reactor Won't Require Safety Related Electrical Systems
    • Bogus "Fuel on Hand" Subsidy Rejected for Nuclear and Coal Plants
    • Complaint to Idaho Governor on Mackay Dam Hazards Ignored
  • EDI December 2017 Newsletter
    • Don't Abolish the Defense Nuclear Facility Safety Board
    • Epic Struggles To Decide Our Electric Grid Design and Clean Energy Choices Are Going On, Often With Too Little News Coverage
    • Idaho Power Company Wants to Charge Net Metering Solar Generating Customers More
    • Georgia Power Wants Ratepayers to Foot the Entire Bill for Cost Overruns on Vogtle AP1000 Nuclear Plant Construction
    • Nuclear Industry Continues to Downplay Adverse Health Effects of Uranium - Citizens and Radiation Workers Need to Beware
    • Living Today in the USA: Warning - Don't Drink the Water (Understanding common drinking water contaminants and where to find out more about your drinking water)
  • EDI November 2017 Newsletter
    • An Update on the INL's 2011 Plutonium Inhalation Accident
    • Public Comment to National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health Regarding Radiation Dose Reconstruction
    • Aquifer Monitoring Using Westbay Multilevel Sampling Wells Not Always Monitoring the Aquifer; PCE Contamination From Inner Tube in Wells
    • Mystery Alpha Contamination in USGS Aquifer Samples
    • DOE Has Concerns Over On-going Safety Incidents in All of Fluor Idaho's Operations
    • Changes to CERCLA Cleanup Depths and Years Requiring Institutional Controls to Restrict Access
    • Challenges Remain For the Idaho Settlement Agreement
    • Idaho Settlement Agreement and INL Cleanup Depend on a Non-existent Repository for Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-Level Waste; Environmental Impact Statements Invalid
    • Open Letter to Idaho Department of Environmental Quality
  • EDI October 2017 Newsletter
    • US Nuclear Industry Events Leave Boosters Scrambling to Argue for Nuclear Energy
    • INL's Proposed Outdoor Radioactive Waste Storage at MFC Hazardous and RCRA permit Modification Should Be Denied
    • Idaho Governor Otter Forms Leadership in Nuclear Energy Commission (LINE) 3.0
    • Issues Around Reclassifying INL's Calcine Waste
    • Idaho Falls Power General Manager gives talk on "Disrupting the Grid"
    • Health Risks and Environmental Damage from Uranium Mining, Milling, Enrichment, and Reprocessing - Not Just From Nuclear Reactor Accidents
    • Radiation Dose Assessment With Automated Diagnostics Possible
    • HR 3053 - Once Again Nuclear Proponents Try to Ram a Nuclear Waste Bill Through Congress to Solve the Decades Old Problem of Where to Permanently Dispose of this Most Dangerous Legacy of Nuclear Power and Bombs
  • EDI September 2017 Newsletter
    • Put Kate Brown's Book "Plutopia" On Your Must Read List
    • Former Idaho Governor Cecil Andrus Passes Away Just Shy of 86th Birthday, Will Be Sorely Missed
    • Hanford Bioassay Confirms Worker Inhalation of Plutonium and Americium
    • From Hope of a Nuclear Renaissance to Costly Nuclear Boondoggle: Construction of two South Carolina AP1000 nuclear reactors abandoned but Georgia Presses On With Construction of Two AP1000 reactors at Vogtle
    • Moniz Explains His Desperate Argument That Nuclear Energy Supports National Security
    • Alvarez writes about Spent Nuclear Fuel Pool Accidents and Fuel Disposal
    • NIOSH Found That INL's Chem Plant Failed to Provide Adequate Uranium and Plutonium Monitoring of Workers in 1975-1980 and Investigation of Other INL Radiation Workers Protection Issues Continues
    • Irradiated Target Separations Continue at the ATR Complex
  • EDI August 2017 Newsletter
    • Waste Control Specialists Requests NRC to temporarily suspend review of proposed Texas Spent Nuclear Fuel Interim Storage Facility amid financial problems
    • Will Consolidated Interim Spent Fuel Storage Legislation Gain Traction?
    • Public Integrity reports that widespread bad behavior of Department of Energy contractors goes unpunished, including Idaho National Laboratory contractor Battelle Energy Alliance
    • BEA's concern was "false positives" and not workers' health
    • Amory Lovins writes about the harm of nuclear bailouts on renewable energy
    • France's High Level Waste Repository Concrete Bitumen Woes
    • Keeping Pad A Under the Soil Cap Will Be Expensive And is Destined to Fail Over the Long Term
    • Radiological Release to ATR Complex Evap Pond
  • EDI July 2017 Newsletter
    • NuScale Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Funding Uncertain
    • Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) Seek to Shrink Emergency Planning Zones
    • Idaho National Laboratory's Spent Nuclear Fuel and High Level Waste Slated for a Defense Repository That Doesn't Exist
    • Idaho National Laboratory Citizens Advisory Board Briefed on IWTU and Calcine Retrieval Status
    • Over 900 TRU Waste Shipments Ready to Ship to WIPP But WIPP Only Accepting 61 Idaho Shipments Through January 2018
    • Idaho National Laboratory Cleanup Status as of June 2017
    • A Timeline for the Burial Ground for the Radioactive Waste Management Complex
    • Investigation of Aquifer Detections of PCE in Multilevel Wells Continue, No New Data Until Fall
    • NIOSH Continues to Study Expanding INL/ANL-W Special Exposure Cohorts
    • Switzerland and South Korea Exit Nuclear Energy
  • EDI June 2017 Newsletter
    • Method of Repackaging INL's Vulnerable Calcine was Selected as Hot Isostatic Pressing, But Independent Panel Prefers Vitrification
    • Nuclear Lives in its own private Idaho amid questions about whether AP1000 nuclear plants will be scraped as INL pushing "JUMP" and "GAIN"
    • Excavator slides into waste pit at INL days after tunnel collapses at Hanford (and summary of RWMC buried waste that will never be exhumed)
    • NIOSH Contractor Reviews Historical Burial Grounds Worker Radiation Monitoring - Why So Wrong For So Long?
    • Advanced Test Reactor Anniversary of 50 Years of Operation - And A Look at Recent Occurrence Reports
    • Pyroprocessing of EBR-II Spent Nuclear Fuel - Decades to Process One-Fifth of EBR-II Fuel
  • EDI May 2017 Newsletter
    • After Ten Years of Study, Existing INL Test Reactor Found Not Able to Support Fast Reactor Fuel Research
    • Cleanup Hype Continues at the INL as Contamination in the Aquifer Migrates Downgradient
    • Battery Research Could Transform Clean Power
    • Top Ten Reasons Why We Don't Need Nuclear Energy
    • Attention Rad Waste Shippers: Idaho has Great Deals and Low Prices for Your Radioactive Waste Dumping Needs at Idaho's Grand View in Southwest Idaho
    • LINE Commission Needs to Provide Answers
  • EDI April 2017 Newsletter
    • Oxidative Stress Causes a Wide Range of Health Problems: Ionizing Radiation Causes Oxidative Stress - and So Do the Chemicals Idaho National Laboratory Workers Were Exposed To
    • Energy Employee Illness Compensation Radiation Cohort Expanded, 1963 to 1974
    • Attempts to Restart Yucca Mountain Begin - Last Year's Consent-Based Siting Efforts All But Forgotten
    • Trump Declares War on EPA and the Environment and Embraces More Spending on Nuclear Weapons
    • Nuclear Regulatory Commission Accepts NuScale Application
    • Will AP1000 or EPR reactors begin operation this year?
    • Aging Mackay Dam is Awaiting High Runoff
  • EDI March 2017 Newsletter
    • Inadequately Inspected Mackay Dam is a Disaster Waiting to Happen
    • Citizens Should Be Concerned About the Push to Renegotiate the 1995 Idaho Settlement Agreement
    • Report Suggests Changes to Boost INL's Profile
    • Officials Deny Aquifer Contamination, Continue Groundwater Sampling for PCE
    • A Monument of Uranium: Pad A at RWMC
    • February 2017 Cleanup Status at the INL
    • Retrieval of Above Ground Stored Rocky Flats Waste
    • Exhumation of Targeted Buried Rocky Flats Waste
    • Continued IWTU Testing With No End In Sight
    • Calcine Retrieval Project
    • How DOE Underestimates the Harm of Plutonium Inhalation
    • Iodine-131 Calculator Back Online
  • EDI February 2017 Newsletter
    • Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) Legislation Reintroduced January 24, 2017
    • Nevada Test Site Smoked Us After the 1963 Partial Test Ban
    • NIH Removes Fallout Iodine-131 Calculator Paid for by Tax Payers, Won't Give Timeline for New Calculator
    • Idaho Department of Environmental Quality Blackout on Environmental Monitoring Data Prior to 2010
    • The Highly Flawed Hiroshima and Nagasaki Survivor Studies Underestimate Radiation Harm
    • INL Spent Fuel Shipment Remains in Limbo as IWTU Waste Treatment Facility Is Not Operating
    • NuScale Submitted Its Nuclear Reactor Design to NRC
  • EDI January 2017 Newsletter
    • Tritium at 800 pCi/L in the Snake River Plain Aquifer in the Magic Valley at Kimama: Why it matters
    • State Continues to Fine the Department of Energy over Integrated Waste Treatment Unit Delays: Fluor Says Treatment is Many Months Away
    • Antitrust Lawsuit preventing Utah's radioactive waste company EnergySolutions from buying Texas Waste Control Specialists
    • WIPP Reopening After Two Accidents That Were Never Supposed to Happen
  • EDI December 2016 Newsletter
    • Will Yucca Mountain Be Revived by Trump?
    • November Senate Committee Proposes Costly Life Support for Dying Nuclear Industry
    • 1000 New Nuclear Plants by 2050 Wouldn't Put a Dent in CO2 Production
    • Hanford Settlement $125 Million - Contractors Deny Wrongdoing
    • Department of Energy Past Waste Water Practices at INL Included Dumping Thorium and Uranium into the Aquifer: They Keep Pretending It's There Naturally
    • Hexavalent Chromium Around the Country as EPA Delays
    • Rocky Flats Health Survey Being Conducted for 1952-1992
  • EDI November 2016 Newsletter
    • Navy Issues Final Environmental Impact Statement for $1.6 Billion Facililty but Keeps Old Risky Facility
    • Still No Schedule for INL's Integrated Waste Treatment Unit (IWTU) Operation
    • Objections to Proposed Aboveground Waste Storage at WIPP
    • Russia Suspends Plutonium Deal With US
    • Utah Exhibit on Utah Downwinders
    • Rocky Flats Settlement: Too Little, Too Late
    • INL's Role in Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) Initiative
    • INL's MFC Radioactive Scrap and Waste Facility Public Comment Period
    • Another Aquifer Well at the INL has Mystery PCE
    • Understanding Radiation-Induced Breast Cancer Risk from Medical Radiation Including Breast Mammography
  • EDI October 2016 Newsletter
    • Department of Energy Says It Remains Committed to Consent-Based Siting of Nuclear Waste
    • A Brief Primer on Epidemiology and Radiation-Induced Cancer Rate
    • A Brief Review of Dry Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel Risks
    • Look for the Proposed NuScale Reators at the Idaho National Laboratory to be an Aquifer User and Polluter
    • Idaho Cleanup Project Thinks the PCE Chemical Contamination in the Aquifer is from Well Construction
    • Idaho National Laboratory CERCLA Cleanup Announces Loosening of Cleanup Standards
    • Department of Energy Issue Misleading Statement on Cleanup at the Idaho National Laboratory's Radioactive Waste Management Complex and the AP Furthers the Deception
    • Department of Energy Ends Inquiry into Idaho Radiation Exposure - More Misleading Coverage on DOE Problems
    • NIOSH Radiation Advisory Board Presentations and Transcripts Posted Online
  • EDI September 2016 Newsletter
    • NIOSH Special Exposure Cohort Investigations Too Often Continuing for Years as Claimants Die Without Compensation
    • Citizens Put Stop to Department of Energy's Borehole Research in North and South Dakota
    • Nuclear Power Plants Becoming Storage Dumps for Radioactive Waste, writes Robert Alvarez
    • Federal Judge Orders the Department of Energy to Turn Over Idaho Nuclear Waste Documents
    • NuScale Small Modular Reactor Site at the INL Announced
    • Utah's Proposed Blue Castle Project for a 2-Unit Westinghouse AP1000 Nuclear Reactor Plant Has Failed to Find a Utility or Investors
    • Idaho's Kimama Lights
  • EDI August 2016 Newsletter
    • Boise Consent-Based Siting Meeting: No Trust in the Department of Energy
    • GAO Issues Report on Department of Energy Whistleblower Concerns
    • NIOSH to Hold Meeting In Idaho Falls in August - Two Special Exposure Cohorts Approved and Investigations Continue
    • Agencies Document 16 Additional Soil Contamination Areas at the Idaho National Laboratory
    • Recent Radiological Incidents at INL's RWMC
    • Sorry Nukes, More Solar Good News
    • And Even More Solar Good News: President Obama Announces Solar Energy Financing for Low- and Moderate-Income Families
    • And Even in Idaho, More Solar Good News: 40 MW Boise City Solar Project
  • EDI July 2016 Newsletter
    • Consent-Based Siting Meeting to be Held in Boise July 14
    • Tetrachloroethylene Found in Aquifer South of US Highway 20 Being Investigated by USGS, IDEQ and ICP
    • Hexavalent Chromium from INL Waste Water: Someone Should Tell Idaho DEQ It's not Healthy
    • New Bill for TSCA Reform May Limit State Authority, May Not Help in Timely Assessment of Cancer Clusters
    • NIOSH to Hold Meeting in Idaho Falls in August - Or Not. Radiation Worker Special Exposure Cohort Investigations Continue
    • Methods Used by Department of Energy to Estimate Radiation Dose from Internal Plutonium Are Highly Inaccurate
    • DOE Admits They Will Not Meet the September 2016 IDEQ Commitment Date to Commence Treatment with IWTU; No New Schedule Made by Fluor Idaho
    • Would the Many Unsolved Mysteries in INL Environmental Monitoring of Airborne Contamination Be Solved By Considering CERCLA Soil Excavations?
    • DOE Fails to Admit That Aquifer Monitoring Shows Test Reactor Area Not in Compliance with CERCLA Record of Decision
  • EDI June 2016 Newsletter
    • Straight Talk is Rare Concerning radioactive and chemical contamination from the Idaho National Laboratory in the Snake River Plain Aquifer
    • A Limited Review of Idaho Cancer Rates from 2009 to 2013
    • Tritium and Your Baby
    • Tritium at Indian Point
    • DOE's Inspector General Reports of Cost Overruns at the Integrated Waste Treatment Unit
  • EDI May 2016 Newsletter
    • Three events show that the Idaho National Laboratory still doesn't know how to monitor airborne alpha contamination
    • Radiation workers are Trusting in Myth; Here's the Reality
    • INL Update on NIOSH Cohort Petitions
    • Diesel Replacement Project at the Advanced Test Reactor Fails to Adequately Evaluate the Safety of Simultaneous Experiment Loop Pump Coastdown
    • EBR-II Reactor Dome to be Demolished this Spring
  • EDI April 2016 Newsletter
    • Earth Day and Just How Many of DOE's Cleanup Sites Will Require "Forever" Institutional Controls
    • Chernobyl Thirty Year Anniversary - What Lessons Apply to Idaho's Past and Future Nuclear Ventures?
    • Understanding Retrospective Estimates of Radiation Dose Using Biological Dosimetry Can Increase Nuclear Industry Liability
    • Small Modular Reactors (SMRs) a Nuclear Boondoggle
    • INL Director Talking to Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden About Blocked Shipments of Research Fuel
    • Department of Energy Names WIPP Preferred for Greater-Than-Class-C Waste
    • Ian Goddard Reviews Radiation Epidemiology Studies Since the 2006 BEIR VII Report
  • EDI March 2016 Newsletter
    • Costs of Nuclear Still Rising as INL Presses for NuScale SMR
    • Fluor Wins "Cost Plus Fee" Contract for $1.4 Billion INL Cleanup
    • IWTU Remains in Test and Fix Mode
    • Department of Energy Issues INL CERCLA Cleanup Five-Year Review
    • Department of Energy Issues Preliminary Notice of Violation to Contractors Involved in the WIPP Accidents But Does Not Levy Fines
    • Tracking the INTEC Disposal Well Waste Water in the Snake River Plain Aquifer
  • EDI February 2016 Newsletter
    • Jack Stanton: INL Safety? Let's Debate
    • Battelle to Conduct Borehole Research
    • Illinois Nuclear Fuel Shipment Remains in Play
    • Trouble Continues for INL's Integrated Waste Treatment Facility
    • Richardson: Weapons grade plutionum at WIPP bad policy
    • WIPP Status: Everybody Wants to Put Waste at the Currently Closed WIPP
    • Wide Spread Radioactive Disposal Woes
  • EDI January 2016 Newsletter
    • Proposed Radiation Worker Cohorts for the INL Including ANL-W Being Studied by NIOSH
    • Historically, A Lot of Hot Air at the INL
    • Continuing the INL Drinking Water Saga
    • State, Sandia: Just Cover Up Nuke Waste at KAFB
  • EDI December 2015 Newsletter
    • EPA Strongly Disagrees with Petitions to Loosen NRC Radiation Protection Standards
    • What Radiation Workers need to Know But Aren't Being Told
    • DOE Continues Use of ICRP Model Known to Underestimate Dose from Plutonium Inhalation
    • Testing Continues at the INL's Integrated Waste Treatment Unit
    • INL Citizens Advisory Board Treated Like Mushrooms and Kept in the Dark Concerning Waste Burial
  • EDI November 2015 Newsletter
    • One of Two SNF Shipments will not come to Idaho
    • Wasden's Thankless Role in Upholding the 1995 Idaho Settlement Agreement
    • Status of INL's Liquid Waste and Calcine and Other Cleanup Operations
    • WIPP Status: Reopening...But Who Knows When?
    • DOE's Plutonium Addiction Continues to Be Expensive
    • Plutonium Health Issues and What DOE is not Telling Workers
    • Barriers Against Solar Energy in Idaho
    • Covering Up Escalating Cost of Nuclear Energy Isn't Easy for Nuclear Boosters
  • EDI October 2015 Newsletter
    • Former Idaho Governor Andrus Sues DOE
    • Continuing Debate Over Nuclear Energy's Role in Providing Carbon-Free Energy
    • NIOSH Public Comment Transcripts from July Meeting in Idaho Falls
    • NRC Public Comment Period for Loosening Radiation Protection Standards
    • NRC Refuses to Fund Epidemiology around Nuclear Power Plants
  • EDI September 2015 Newsletter
    • Pressure on Idaho Attorney General Wasden to Allow the Two Proposed Shipments
    • Idaho LINE Commission Nuclear Booster Spin
    • Status of Cleanup at the Radioactive Waste Management Complex
    • EPA Issues Clean Power Plan
    • Highlights of Public Comment on INL Naval Spent Fuel Handling (draft DOE/EIS-04F3D)
    • What the WIPP does DOE Have in Mind for a Defense-Only Repository?
    • NRC Extends Public Comment Period for LLW Disposal
    • Review of Recent Advanced Test Reactor Occurrence Reports: Reason for Concern
  • EDI July/August 2015 Newsletter
    • Senators Call for Hearing on Radiation Exposure Compensation Act
    • Fairness: Still a Work in Progress, Decades Late
    • NIOSH Radiation Board Meeting in Idaho Falls July 23
    • Comments on DOE's Two Proposed Shipments to INL
    • NRC Proposed Rule Changes for Low-Level Waste Disposal
  • EDI June 2015 Newsletter
    • Public Comment Invited on DOE NEPA Supplement Analysis of Two Proposed Commercial Nuclear Fuel Shipments to INL
    • NuScale Small Modular Reactor in the NRC Licensing Process
    • DOE Uranium Sales Have Hurt Uranium Industry
    • DOE Moves Forward with Planning a Defense-Only Repository
    • Waste Control Specialists in Texas Propose Consolidated Spent Fuel Facility
    • Could Decades of Contaminated Drinking Water Explain Elevated Cancer Mortality Risks at INL and SRS DOE Sites?
  • EDI May 2015 Newsletter
    • The Weakest link Matters in Seismic Assessment
    • The Hidden Truth About INL Drinking Water
  • EDI April 2015 Newsletter
    • Sugar-Coated Statements and Significant Omissions from the DOE and Idaho Line Commission
    • How "Waivering" on the Idaho Settlement Agreement Relates to the INL's Treatment of Sodium-Bearing Waste
    • Don't Hold Your Breath for a Consent-Based Spent Fuel Solution
    • DOE Nuclear Safety Analysis Deficiencies Downplayed and Lessons Apparently Not Learned
  • EDI March 2015 Newsletter
    • INL Plays Hide the Ball
    • An Alarming Change in the Status of Technetium-99 in the Vadose Zone and Aquifer at INL
  • EDI January 2015 Newsletter
    • More Contamination to Come (to the INL Replacement RH-LLW Facility)
    • Planned Contamination of the Aquifer is a Grave Mistake (INL Replacement RH-LLW Facility)
    • SL-1: America's Only Nuclear Reactor Operator Deaths
    • A Nuclear Power Plant Near Howe?
    • Radioactive Waste Cleanup Unit Takes Step Forward (INL's IWTU)
  • EDI December 2014 Newsletter
    • Difficult to Convince NIOSH of Department of Energy Worker Overexposure
    • Another Responder to SL-1 Tells Story
    • James Dennis SL-1 Army Demolition Crew
    • Hanford Report States Worker Exposures From Toxic Vapor
    • Hanford Union and Public Interest Advocates Serve Notice of Intent to Sue
  • EDI November 2014 Newsletter
    • More Contamination to Come (Replacement RH-LLW Facility)
    • Book Review: Department of Energy Whistleblower, Dennis Patterson
  • EDI October 2014 Newsletter
    • Is Buried Low Level Radioactive Waste Contamination Over Millennia Really Acceptable?
    • INL to Build Replacement Remote-Handled Low Level Waste Facility
    • Status of DOE Greater-Than-Class-C Waste Storage Problem
    • Battelle Fined For Safety Violations
    • Bringing a Nuclear Test Reactor Back to Life at INL
    • DOE Waste Cleanup Deadline Missed
    • EDI Comments on Hazardous Waste Permit
  • EDI September 2014 Newsletter
    • Protecting Yourself: Current and Former INL Employees Need to Understand How Their Dose Reports Are Being Calculated
    • Uncertainty in INL Worker Dosimetry
  • EDI August 2014 Newsletter
    • Perched Water and Aquifer Contamination Beneath the INL's ATR Complex
    • Book Review: Department of Energy Whistleblower, Dennis Patterson
  • EDI July 2014 Newsletter
    • Why You Shouldn't Rely on the Nuclear Industry for Straight Answers about Radiation Health Risks
    • New federal lawsuit filed in INL plutonium accident
    • Lessons from New Mexico about WIPP
  • EDI June 2014 Newsletter
    • Radiological Accicent Releases Underestimated in Emergency Response
    • Preparation Documents for the Idaho National Laboratory
    • Debate over "Linear no-Threshold" Model of Radiation Effects
    • Climate Change Panel Dosen't See Nuclear Energy as Solution
  • EDI May 2014 Newsletter
    • INL Managers Deny Any Responsibility for ZPPR Accident
    • Boise Weekly Half-Life Article Debate
    • Unbiased Nuclear Radiation Epidemiology a Rarity
  • EDI April 2014 Newsletter
    • Radiation Risk Debate
    • The WIPP Problem, and what it means for defense nuclear waste disposal
  • EDI March 2014 Newsletter
    • "Stuck in Second" - Low Internal Dose Cancer Risk
    • Whistleblower Fired After Voicing Safety Concerns at Nuclear Site
    • Rember That Nuclear Dump Site That 'Was Never Supposed to Leak'?
  • EDI February 2014 Newsletter
    • Proposed Resumption of Fuels Testing at INL's TREAT Reactor
    • The 2010 European Union Commission on Radiation Risk Risk
    • Report Highlights the Underestimation of Harm from Internal Radiation
  • EDI January 2014 Newsletter
    • Separating Fact From Fiction
    • Exposed Worker at INL Fired
    • Safety Concerns Still Not Addressed and Retaliation Continues Against Worker
    • America's Fukushima
  • EDI December 2013 Newsletter
    • How Believable are Estimated Radiation Doses Following Plutonium Inhalation?
  • EDI October 2013 Newsletter
    • Little Reason for Confidence in DOE Nuclear Operations
    • INL's MFC Plutonium Storage Vulnerabilities and Risks to Workers
    • Get Real
    • Questions for BEA
  • EDI September 2013 Newsletter
    • The Real "Catch-22" Concerning Spent Nuclear Fuel
    • INL's Highly Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment Plant Having Major Startup Trouble
    • Accident at INL Leads to Worker Complaint
    • Living in Fear
    • Radiation-exposed Workers Demand Release of Nuke Plant Accident Video
    • Tribes Protest Mega-loads and Nuclear Waste on Idaho Roads
  • July-August 2013 EDI Newsletter
    • Worth the Risk?
    • INL's Highly Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment Plant Having Major Startup Problems
    • Idaho Seeks Public Comment on INL Radioactive Hazardous Waste Permit
    • More Plutonium in Hanford Tanks than Previously Thought
    • More Hanford Radioactive Waste Tanks are Leaking
  • June 2013 EDI Newsletter
    • Digging Into The Details
    • INL Advanced Test Reactor Shutdowns for Safety Reasons
    • INL Radioactive Emissions 2003-2010
    • Retaliation is Alleged by INL Workers
    • The State of Nuclear Power in US: BaD and Worse
    • Ex-Regulator Says Reactors are Flawed
    • Senator Wyden's Concerns Renewed Over Hanford Waste Tank Explosions
  • May 2013 EDI Newsletter.pdf
    • Review on Draft Legislation to Nuclear Waste Policy Act
    • Fukushima Meltdown Driving Increased Among US Infants
    • Fukushimda Disaster Continues: Third Radioactive Leak
    • Hanford Nuclear Waste Site at Risk of Hydrogen Explosion
    • Nuclear Dump in Washingotn Leaking Radioactive Waste
    • Hanford Tanks are leaking: Where do We Go from Here
    • A Contaminated Teddy Bear
  • EDI April 2013 Newsletter
    • Foiled by FOIA
    • Principals for Safe Garding Nuclear Waste at Reactors
    • New Independent Study of Radiological Impact on Chnerboyl and Fukushima Challenges United Nations Study
    • New Tanks at Hanford Not New Mexico
    • What Were They Thinking Of?
    • How Much Risk is OK?
  • EDI February-March 2013 Newsletter
    • Lessons Not Learned from Fukushima
    • DOE Office of Hearings and Appeals Rules in Favor of EDI FOIA Appeal
    • Idaho Citizens Need to be Informed About the the INEL's Advanced Test Reactor
    • Despite What INL Officials Say, Serious Questions Remain About What Impact an Earth Quake Would have on the Advanced Test Reactor
    • Advocates Laud President Obama's Signing of Federal Whistleblower Reforms
  • EDI December 2012 Newsletter
    • DOE misses INL Cleanup Deadlines
    • A Radioactive Conflict of Interest
    • Possible Radioactive Leak at Hanford Tank Farm
    • Hanford Challenge Concerned Over Audit of Vitrification Plant
    • Issues Not Addressed by DNFSB and Sandia Lab. Annular Core Research Reactor
    • Blue Ribbon Commission Updates
    • Nuclear Waste's Future Unclear In Idaho
    • Nuclear Thermal Propulsion Like Lazarus Rises Again
  • EDI October-November 2012 Newsletter
    • Cancer in Idaho on the Rise
    • INL Contractor BEA is Fined for Worker Exposure
    • Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Expansion - Blocking and Delaying Justice Until There Aren't Enough Downwinders; Left to Demand It
  • EDI August 2012 Newsletter
    • INL's Advanced Test Reactor is Shutdown Two More Times in 2012
    • INL's Highly Radioactive Liquid Waste Treatment Plant Having Major Startup Problems
    • Our Lives Still Hang by a Devil's Thread at Fukushima
  • EDI March 2012 Newsletter
    • Japan's Nuke Dangers Nowhere Near Resolved
    • Meanwhile Here in the U.S. There Are 31 Nuclear Reactors Like Fukushima
    • Robert Alvarez Reports on Fukushima Reactors
    • Fears Growing as Fukushima Reactor Temperature Rising
    • We May Yet Lose Tokyo...Not to Mention Alaska and Now Georgia Too
    • Can It Happen Here??
    • With New Plants Approved, Anti-Nuk Coalition Readies for Fight
    • Day of Remembrance Set for Victims of Nuclear Testing Fallout
    • Medical Journal Article: 14,000 U.S. Deaths Tied to Fukushima Reactor Disaster Fallout
  • EDI February 2012 Newsletter
    • DOE Releases Final Materials and Fuels Complex Accident Report, Root Causes - Unchanged
    • Convoluted DOE Gamesmanship
    • Will the Downwinders Finally be Heard
    • On Day of Remerbrance, Downwinders Say; Not Enough is Being Done
  • EDI January 2012 Newsletter
    • New Nuclear Waste Dump Slated for INL
    • Nuclear Regulatory Commission Agrees to Public Request to Review Dangerous Vents on US Fukushima-Style Reactors
    • Questions Swirl Around $6 Billion Nuclear Lab
    • Debating Downwind in Nevada
  • EDI November-December 2011 Newsletter
    • Two Accidents at Idaho Nuclear Site: Workers Exposed to Radiation
    • Variability in PuO2 Intake by Inhalation
    • Hanford's Waste Treatment White Elephant
    • Hanford Downwinder Litigation November 2011 Update
    • Earthquake Threat to US Nuclear Reactors Far Higher Than Realized
    • Fukushima Radiation Risks "Severly Understated"
    • Fukushima Fallout Fears Over Japan Farms
  • EDI September-October 2011 Newsletter
    • Groups File Complaint to ID Governor on Mackey Dam Hazards
    • DOE Cleanup of INL Buried Nuclear Waste Not So Complete
    • The Explosive Truth Behind Fukushima's Meltdown
    • "Confidential Assessment" of Fukushima Nuclear Reactors Obtained Under Freedom of Information Act
    • DOE: "Nothing Like This Could Happen Here?
    • Blue Ribbon Commission Draft Report Comments
    • Senators Advocate for Radiation Exposure Compensation Act of 2011
    • Nuk Plant Headed for Wyoming?
  • EDI August 2011 Newsletter
    • Groups Win Appeal for DOE Reports
    • Mackay Dam: A Preventable Disaster
    • Fixing America's Nuclear Waste Storage Problem
    • Anti-Nuclear Groups Shower Federal Regulators with Legal Challenges
    • U.S. Floods and Wildfires Trigger New Fears Over Nuke Safety
  • EDI June 2011 Newsletter
    • Spent Nuclear Fuel Pools in the US: Reducing the Deadly Risks of Storage
    • DOE's Spent Nuclear Fuel Vulnerabilities at INL
    • Three Mile Island Fuel Storage Modules at INL are Cracking
    • More Stringent Coordinated Fukushima Fallout Monitoring Needed to Determine Radioactive Iodine Risk to US Milk and Water
    • Bill Would Expand Relief for Americans Sickened by Radiation Exposure
    • The Atomic Breeding Grounds
  • EDI May 2011 Newsletter
    • Buying Time at the Advanced Test Reactor
    • Japan's Nuclear Catastrophe Leaves Little to Celebrate on Children's Day
    • Government Adviser Quits Post to Protest Japan's Policy on Radiation Exposure for Schools
    • Chernobyl Survivor Warns of 'Bombshell' in Japan
    • EPA Releases New Radiation Numbers for Boise, Idaho
    • Nuclear Official Laments that Spent Fuel Has Nowhere to Go
    • More Hanford Radioactive Waste Problems Reveled
    • EDI and KYNF Win FOIA Appeal
    • DOE Prepares EIS for Disposal of Greater-Than-Class C Radioactive Waste
  • EDI April 2011 Newsletter
    • Comparing Chernobly Disaster to an ATR Accident
    • INL Nuclear Waste Vulnerabilities
    • Three Mile Island Fuel Storage Modules at DOE Idaho Facility are Cracking
    • New Mexico at Risk for Nuclear Meltdown
    • Preventing the Next Nuclear Meltdown
    • Nuclear Official Laments that Spent Nuclear Fuel has Nowhere to Go
  • EDI March 2011 Newsletter
    • Meltdowns Grow More Likely at Fukushima Reactors
    • Post Japan Thoughts on DOE's Advanced Test Reactor
    • Can It Happen Here?
    • How Safe is Idaho Nuke Lab in Event of Quake?
    • In a Perfect World, Fukushima would Halt Nuclear Renaissance in its Tracks
    • The Government's Nuclear Millstone
  • EDI January-February 2011 Newsletter
    • Nuclear Reactor Unsafe; Documents Show
    • Pulled Omnibus Bill Included Plutonium Restart at INL
    • Recklessness with Nuclear Waste
    • Radiation Study Set Up as Defense, Records Show - It was supposed to be neutral probe into Hanford's effects on public
    • Time for Nuclear Savings Bonds?
    • Nuclear Commission Hid the Facts
  •  EDI December 2010
    • Settlements Being Readied for Some Downwinders
    • More Hanford Downwinders Claims Going to Trial
    • Judge Denies Sick Women's Motion for Speedy Trial
    • Analysis of Hanford Nuclear Reservation Historical Radioactive Releases
    • Safe Energy Commission to DOE: Stop Making It, Store It Safe
  • EDI October-November 2010 Newsletter
    • Groups File Office of Hearings and Appeals Petition on DOE/ID Delays in Releasing ATR Documents
    • Defense Nuclear Facilities Board Refuses to Conduct a Safety Review of the Advanced Test Reactor
    • Onsite Dry Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel is Best Interim Solution
    • MIT Report Endorses Centralized Interim Storage of Spent Nuclear Fuel
    • Groups Claim Small Modular Reactors' No Panacea for What Ails Nuclear Power
    • Nuclear Waste Piles Up with No Disposal Plan
  • EDI July-August 2010 Newsletter. pdf
    • Feds Wants Reactor: Critics Knock Plan to Produce Plutonium Isotopes in Old Eastern Idaho Facility
    • Plutonium Wastes from the US Nuclear Weapons Complex
    • A Review of Data Triples Plutonium Waste Figures
    • Obama Seeks to Revive Space Nuclear Power
    • Two New Reactors - Obama Announces Financing for Reactors
    • Billions of Dollars in Tax Breaks for Each New Reactor Under Kerry-Lieberman Wipe Out Risk for Utilities Already Benefiting from Massive Loan Guarantees
  • EDI June 2010 Newsletter
    • Groups Petition for Advanced Test Reactor Safety Review
    • Idaho Cancer Rates Continue to Rise at Record Levels
    • Hanford Downwinder Lawsuit Update
    • Hanford Downwinders Get Their Day in Court
  • May 2010 Newsletter
    • Comparing Chernobyl Disaster to an ATR Accident
    • DOE Sites Become the Nation's New Yucca Mountain
    • Tom Udall Leads Bipartisan Group in Introducing RECA Amendments Act 2010
    • Downwinders' Long Journey to Justice
  • April 2010 Newsletter
    • Released DOE Documents by Court Order Show Significant Hazard in the Event of an Advanced Test Reactor Accident
    • Governor Brewer Hears from County Downwinders
    • Matheson Saddened by Death of Utah Downwinder Champion - Stewart Udall
  • February-March Newsletter
    • Court Ordered DOE Documents Released Show Major Reactor Vulnerabilities
    • Public Risks of Contamination Hiding in Secret Reports
    • Five Reasons NOT to Invest in Nuclear Power
    • A Bad Day for America - Harvey Wasserman
    • Despite Non-Proliferation Pledge, Obama Budget Seeks Additional $7 B for Nuclear Arsenal
  • January 2010 Newsletter
    • DOE Releases Documents - Settles FOIA Claims
    • Nuclear Power Boost for Senate Bill
    • Zombie Nuke Plants
    • Obama Executive Order to Declassify Formerly Secret Documents
    • Our Century of Fallout: Every Nuclear Detonation, Mapped
  • October 2009 Newsletter
    • Federal District Court Orders DOE to Release FOIA Documents
    • ATR Experimental Fuel Failure Show Significant Releases
    • Karl Grossman's Enviro-video on Nuclear Energy
    • All Hope Abandon Ye Who Enter Here; The Unofficial Motto of the Nuclear Workers' Compensation Programs
  • September 2009 Newsletter
    • DOE's Own Internal Audit Finds Major Safety Problems at the Advanced Test Reactor
    • Rise in Thyroid Cancer May be Tied to Radiation
    • The Mystery of Chernobyl
    • *"Exposed" Tells the Downwinder Story
    • Fallout from Nuclear Test Leads to Health Care Crisis in Hawaii
    • Former Mound Employees Advocates Question Destruction of DOE Records
    • Idaho National Laboratory Document Destruction
  • August 2009 Newsletter
    • DOE Internal Documents Show Huge Radiation Doses in the Event of an ATR Accident
    • Mercury Rising by Mary Woollen
    • Idaho Governor Otter to Fight Mercury Storage at INL
    • Nuke Developer Says He May Move Outside Elmore Co. Idaho
    • U.S. Air Force Sets Up New Command forvNuclear Forces
    • The News on Nukes
    • A-bomb Certification Ruling to Stand
  • June - July 2009 Newsletter
    • Transuranic Waste at Hanford by Robert Alvarez
    • Mortality and Cancer Incidence Following Occupational Radiation Exposure
    • Nuclear Cleanup Awards Questioned; Firms Cited for Errors Get Funding
    • Echoes of Amchitka Alaska 40 Years After America's Biggest Nuclear Blast, the damage Continues
    • Support Oversight and Accountability Enact Whistleblower Legislation
    • Downwinders Still Waiting for RCECA Coverage
    • Nuclear Funds Hit With Losses; Money to Close TMI, Peach Bottom Units Down a Total of $ 203 million
    • Idaho Downwinders See a Better Chance for Financial Help
  • May 2009
    • Documents Released Under FOIA Show Disregard for Safety
    • DOL Secretary Solis Must Protect Whistleblowers Now
    • Settlement Talk Emerges in Hanford Downwinders Case
    • Chernobyl Fallout Affected Unborn Babies
    • Regulating Radioactivity: Derision for Uranium Disposal Decision
    • Inspectors Find Problems at Nuclear Weapons Complex
    • Thyroid Cancer Increasing, Scientists Baffled
    • DOE 2010 Fiscal Year Budget "Great News" for INL
    • NASA's Deep Space Missions Get New Fuel
    • Nuclear Arms Workers Dying While Fighting US Government
  • April 2009 Newsletter
    • DOE Office of Hearings and Appeals Partially Approves EDI FOIA Request
    • Nuclear Waste
    • East Idaho Mayor Defends Trip to Paris Paid by French Nuclear Company
    • People Died at Three Mile Island
    • Raise Doubts Over Nuclear Plant Safety: Startling Revelations About Three Mile Island Disaster
    • Senate Budget Revives Nuclear Pork
  • March 2009 Newsletter
    • DOE Censoring Freedom of Information Documents on Advanced Test Reactor
    • Blackfoot Idaho Uranium Enrichment Company Also Looks for Biomass Location in Northern Idaho and Washington
    • French-Government-Controlled Uranium Enrichment Facility on Fast-track for Idaho
    • State of Idaho Makes Investment in INL Nuclear Energy Research Facility
    • Matheson Seeks Hearing for "Downwinders"
    • Bill Would Test Nuclear Safety
    • The Use of Reference Man in Radiation Protection Standards
    • DOE Secretary Chu Confirms INL Role in Future INL Nuclear Efforts
    • 262 Public Interest Organizations Support Swift Action to Restore Whistleblower Rights
    • The Economic Cost of the Military Industrial Complex
    • Now in Our Backyard
  • February 2009 Newsletter
    • DOE Continues to Censor Freedom of Information Documents on Advanced Test Reactor
    • A New Energy Future Means a New Energy Department
    • Idaho Governor Otter Proclaims Downwinder Day
    • Uranium for 20 Nukes Repatriated from Japan in Special U.S. Operation
    • Feds: Audit of South Carolina Nuclear Complex Whitewashed
    • Pentagon Spending Will Not be the Kind of Stimulus We Need
    • Veterans must be Compensated: What Planet is British Government's Ministry of Defense On?
    • Economic Stimulus Must Include Cleanup Backlog of DOE Waste Sites
  • January 2009 Newsletter
    • Advanced Test Reactor Shutdown Due to Seismic Problems
    • FOIA Documents Reveal More Problems with Advanced Tesr Reactor
    • Public Nixes Two of Three Nuclear Power Reactors Slated for Idaho
    • Feds Solicit Public Opinion on Idaho Uranium Enrichment Plant
    • Nuclear Reprocessing Danger
    • How A-Bomb Testing Changed our Trees
    • Baby Tooth Survey of Nuclear Fallout Effects
    • A Science Panel's Curious End
    • Push for Expansion of Radiation Expansion Grows
    • Any Way the Wind Blows
  • August-September 2008 Newsletter
    • DOE Launches New Waste Treatment Facility
    • Deadly Denial: Shifting Rules Drowning Sick Nuclear Workers
    • Nuclear Workers Searing Cry for Help
    • The Downwinders: Gloria's Story
    • Nuclear Interests Belie Offshore Drilling Proposal
    • How to Speak Up While Obeying the Law
  • June-July 2008 Newsletter
    • Idaho Again Capitulates to DOE on New INL Buried Waste Agreement
    • Environmental Groups Challenge DOE's Amendment to Waste Management PEIS
    • Southwest Idaho Company Making Millions by Accepting Toxic Waste
    • Nuclear Crossroads
    • 26 Defective Groundwater Monitoring Wells Discovered
    • Plutonium Contamination Migrating Into Groundwater
    • Over 112 Public Interest Organizations Support Whistleblower Law
    • French-government-controlled Uranium Enrichment Facility Planned for INL
    • State of Idaho Makes Capstone Investment in Key INL Facility
    • Blackwater Could Roll into Northern Idaho
  • May 2008 Newsletter
    • Court Rules in Favor of DOE in Advanced Test Reactor Litigation
    • Update on KYNF/EDI Freedom of Information Act Suit Against DOE
    • Citizen Group Wins Federal Lawsuit Against DOE for Unlawful FOIA Delays
    • Trick or Treat by Mary Woollen
    • Cancer-Is Treatment Worth Cost
    • Waste Away: Bill would Ban Foreign Radioactive Waste
    • British Study Links Radiation to Heart Disease in Nuclear Power Plants
    • Ultrasound Detected Thyroid Nodule & Radiation Dose from Fallout
    • The Costs of War
    • Idaho Taxpayers have Paid $1.2 billion for War
    • What you don't know about your government
  • March- April 2008 Newsletter
    • Judge Winmill Agrees to Reconsider Advanced Test Reactor Ruling
    • Trick or Treat
    • Cancer-Is Treatment Worth the Costs
    • Waste Away; Bill would Ban Foreign Radioactive Waste
    • British Study Links Radiation to Heart Disease in Nuclear Power Plants
    • Ultrasound Detected Thyroid Nodule Prevalence
    • Costs of War
    • Idaho Taxpayers
    • What you don't know about Government
  • January 2008 Newsletter
    • DOE's Advanced Test Reactor Expert Claims Errors in His Declarations to the Court
    • Meeting on Payette ID Nuke Plant Plan Draws 400 Residents/Activists
    • How Risky is the New Era of Nuclear Power
    • Hanford Test Reactor Fuel Being Sent to Idaho
    • Radiation Sickened 36,500 and Killed at Least 4,000 of those Who Built Bombs, Mined Uranium, Breathed Bomb Test Fallout
  • November/December 2007 Newsletter
    • Groups Challenge DOE's Legal Attempt to Indefinitely Extend Antiquated Advanced Test Reactor Operations
    • Agency's Collude in Plan to Leave INL Buried Waste in Place
    • Idaho Falls Native Struggles to Receive Pension After 1958 INL Nuclear Accident
    • INL Employee Hearing Starts
  • October 2007 Newsletter
    • Wyoming Federal Judge Orders DOE to Release Documents Sought by Environmental Groups
    • New Agency Cleanup Plan for Mixed Hazardous and Radioactive Buried Waste
    • Cleanup Plan for INL High-level Waste Tanks
    • Dems Do It Again-This Time on Missile Defense
    • INTEC Tank Farm Soil and Groundwater Cleanup Plan
    • US Use of Depleted Uranium is a Significant Threat
  • August/September 2007 Newsletter
    • DOE Denies Hazards with its Forty-year-old Advanced Test Reactor
    • Push for Expansion of Radiation Exposure Grows
    • Idaho County Downwinder Sounds the Alarm
    • Worlds First Atomic Bomb Test
    • Downwinders Concerned About DOE Site Fire Radiation
    • Veterans File Class Action Suit
    • Radiation Sickened 36,500 and Killed 4,000
    • DOE Sick Worker Compensation Program in Poor Shape
    • GAO Report on U.S. Financial Condition
  • July 2007 Newsletter
    • Smoking Gun Document Shows DOE Fears Public Response if Reactor Undergoes Environmental Review
    • The Court Should Issue an Injunction Barring Continued Operation of the ATR
    • Finally, Some Signs of Hope for Downwinders
    • Downwinders May Have a New Worry: Genetic Damage
    • Government Critics Question Validity of Results of Independent Radiation Monitoring
    • Comments on the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP)
    • Depleted Uranium A Way Out? Compensation to those Affected by This Poisoned Legacy
  • June 2007 Newsletter
    • DOE Forced to Release Some Censored Documents
    • DOE Confirms Advanced Test Reactor Fails Commercial Reactor Standards
    • Group Petitions Defense Nuclear Facility Board
    • U.S. Space First Strike Program Well Underway
    • Post Office to Implement Periodical Mailing Rate Increases that Discriminates Against Small Publications
    • Global Warming or Conversion of Military Industrial Complex
    • Former Republican President Dwight Eisenhower's 1961 Message to the Nation
    • Congressman Matheson Testifies on Nuclear Warhead Restraint
  • May 2007 Newsletter
    • Atomic Fallout
    • Divine Strike Bites The dusk
    • Nuke Workers Woes Continue
    • Real Masters of Space
    • Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
  • April 2007 Newsletter
    • DOE Federal Court Filings Deny Controversial Nuclear Reactor Safety Issues
    • DOE Refuses to Address Advanced Test Reactor Hazards
    • Idaho Approves DOE New INL Mixed Hazardous and Radioactive Waste Operations
    • Give RECA Compensation to all States
    • Thwarted Warrior
  • January/February 2007 Newsletter
    • Groups Sue U.S. Department of Energy in Federal Court; Demand Shut-down of Controversial Nuclear Reactor
    • Advanced Test Reactor is a Unacceptable Risk
    • DOE Violates Environmental Laws with New INL Mixed Hazardous and Radioactive Waste Operations
    • Iraq War Will Cost More than $2 Trillion
    • Bush 2007 Congressional Budget for Iraq and Afghanistan at $230 Billion
    • Matheson: Divine Strike Test Unwelcome; Purpose, Health Risks Troublesome
  • October 2006 Newsletter
    • DOE Launches New INL Mixed Hazardous and Radioactive Waste Treatment Plan
    • Thyroditis Linked to Fallout
    • Matheson Acts on Fallout Study
  • September 2006 Newsletter
    • DOE Plans to Operate the Advanced Test Reactor for 71 Years
    • DOE Cleanup Plan for INL INTEC is Flawed
    • Atomic Veterans' Compensation Denied by Court Ruling
    • U.S. to Conduct Non-nuclear Experiment at Nevada Test Site
  • August 2006 Newsletter
    • FOIA Lawsuit Filed by KYNF-EDI
    • DOE Files Notice of Appeal on Idaho Nuclear Waste
    • INL Cleanup Inadequate
  • June 2006 Newsletter
    • Decision to Delay Bomb Test is Right Move
    • Something Wicked this Way Blows
    • U.S. Federal District Court Rules on INL Waste Disposition
    • DOE Should Fight its Own Battles
    • More Censorship of Freedom Of Information Act Requests
  • May 2006 Newsletter
    • EDI Calls for Closure of Advanced Test Reactor
    • Chernobyl Plus 20
    • Fallout from Chernobyl Will Cause 100,000 Deaths
    • Nevada Test Site Reopens in June
    • Baby Tooth Survey of Nuclear Fallout
    • Chernobyl Twenty Years On
    • Hanford Waste - Lethal and Leaking
  • February 2006 Newsletter
    • DOE Managers Discuss Shutdown of Advanced Test Reactor
    • Fallout Study Corrects Old Estimate
  • January 2006 Newsletter
    • Groups Challenge Plutonium Production Program Using 40-Year-Old Reactor
    • Russian Cancer Study Adds to the Indictment of Low-Dose Radiation Hazard
  • November 2005
    • EDI Files Appeal Challenging DOE Censorship of Crucial Reactor Safety Reports
    • Seismic Events Jolt Support for INL Forty-year-old Reactor
    • DOE Launches New Attempt to Permit INL High-level Liquid Waste Operation
    • Idaho Downwinders are Mobilized but Still Struggling for Recognition
    • DOE to Request $400 million in Fiscal Year-07 for Nuclear Material Production
    • Bait and Switch on Funding for New Nuclear Bombs
  • October 2005
    • DOE Censors Crucial Accident Analysis Reports on INL's Forty-year-old Plutonium Production Reactor
    • The Real Issue of Plutonium Production in Idaho
    • Republican Controlled Congress Passed Funding for New Plutonium Reactor at INL
    • Downwinder Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Better than DOE Worker Compensation Bill Tribute to Another Fallen Idaho Downwinder
  • June 2005 Newsletter
    • Elevated Cancer in Lewiston Idaho
    • Cases Against Hanford Finally Heard
    • Downwinders Court Win Seen as Victory
    • U.S. House Funds New INL Nuclear Mission
    • Matheson Bill Preserves Fallout Records
    • EPA Calls for Public Comment on Reauthorization of Idaho Hazardous Waste Management Plan
  • May 2005
    • Downwinders Question NAS Report
    • No Automatic Compensation for Downwinders
    • Downwinders Question CDC Decision to End Thyroid Study
    • Idaho Downwinders Speak Out Against New Nuclear Bomb Tests
    • Idaho Approves Preliminary Permit of Major Pollutor
    • NASA Space Nuclear Rocket EIS
    • EDI Releases New Aquifer at Risk Report
    • A Craig Downwinder Story
  • April 2005
    • Radioactive Fallout Didn't Pass Over Southern Idaho?
    • Fallout from CDC Hanford Thyroid Study
    • So What Happens When the Sky Begins to Fall
    • DOE Boosts Nuclear Weapons Budget
    • National Academy of Sciences Slams DOE for Conflict of Interest in Setting Waste Rules
    • Matheson and Bennett Fight to Protect Americans from Nuclear Weapons Testing
  • March 2005 Newsletter
    • Idaho Legislators Pass Downwinder Compensation Bill
    • Idaho Downwinder Commentary
    • Downwinders Ask for Same Settlement - New Rule Changes Standard for Cancer Risk
    • DOE Allows Robbing of Cleanup Funds
    • Radiation Study Set Up as Defense, Records Show It Was Supposed to be Neutral Probe Into Hanford's Effect on Public
    • Update on High-Level Waste Litigation
    • Risks and Alternatives of New Plutonium Production Must be Fully Analyzed
  • February 2005
    • DOE Lauanches New Plutonium Production in Idaho
    • Nuclear Rockets Undergoing Testing
    • Downwinder Letter to Idaho Attorney General
    • Hanford Downwinder Case Slated for Trial
    • A Review of Health Studies Needed
    • Calculating Radiation Dose
  • November/December 2004 Newsletter
    • Idaho Downwinders Tell Their Stories at NAS Hearing
    • Researchers Find Radiation Causes More Diseases
    • Idaho Politicians Sellout to DOE Legislative Efforts to Circumvent Established Nuclear Waste Laws
    • EPA's Own Inspector General Says the Agency's Rulings Aid Polluters
    • INL Changes its Name and Mission Again
    • CDC Releases Draft INL Worker Health Study
    • Nuclear Weapons Research Today = Testing Tomorrow
  • September/October 2004 Newsletter
    • Bush and Republican Congress Push to Restart Nuclear Bomb Testing Generates Blowback from Downwinders
    • Congress Approves New Bush Funding for Nuclear Bomb Testing
    • EPA Denies Freedom of Information Act Request on High-level Waste Operations
    • EPA loses Court Appeal on Nuclear Waste Repository at Yucca Mountain
  • July/August 2004 Newsletter
    • Idaho Cancer Rates Continue to Rise at Record Levels
    • Tragic legacy of US Development of Radiation Bombs
    • CDC's INEEL Health Study
    • INEEL Moves Ahead with Closure of High-Level Radioactive Waste Tank Despite Court Orders
    • EDI Renews Pressure on EPA Inspector General Follow Up on INEEL Deficiencies
  • May 2004 Newsletter
    • Health Dangers Loom Heading Down the Nuclear Testing Path - Again
    • Downwinders Demand Comprehensive Health Studies and Compensation
    • U.S. to Cut Studies of Atomic Bomb Survivors
    • U.S. Debt Results in Major Funding Cuts for Radioactive Waste Cleanup
    • Idaho Launches Another Misguided INL Hazardous Waste Permit
  • April 2004 Newsletter
    • Safety for Americans from Nuclear Weapons Testing Act
    • Congress Approves New Bush Funding for Nuclear Bomb Testing
    • Idaho Issues Final Closure Permit for INL High-level Nuclear Waste Tanks
    • DOE Tries Again to Exhume Buried Radioactive Waste at INL
    • EPA Issues Provisional Rule Further Gutting Clean Air Act
    • Voting with Computers can Simplify Election Fraud
  • November 2003 Newsletter
    • Legacy of Hanford
    • Bush Administration Attack on America's Clean Skies
  • October 2003 Newsletter
    • Idaho Cancer Rates at Record Levels
    • Nuclear Weapons Testing in Nevada Restart Approved in US Senate Impacts the US Northwest
    • Four States Attorney Generals Oppose DOE Proposal to Change Nuclear Waste Laws
    • DOE Appeals US District Court Rulings Against Its Management of Nuclear Waste
    • Federal Lawsuit Alleges DOE Hides INEEL Mission Change Information from the Public
    • EDI Challenges EPA Approval of Idaho's Authority to Enforce Hazardous Waste Laws
    • Bush Administration and EPA Gut Environmental Laws
  • August 2003 Newsletter
    • Court Rules No on Reclassification of Nuclear Waste
    • DOE Appeals Forced Cleanup of INEEL Buried Waste
    • New Nuclear Bomb Testing Slated for Nevada
    • Hanford Lawsuit Says Radioactive Emissions Higher than Government Claims
    • Hanford Thyroid Disease Study Challenged
    • Craig Pushes Funding for New INEEL Reactor
  • June 2003 Newsletter
    • Nuclear Reactors Pose Health Hazard
    • US Congress Approves Nuclear Bomb Tests
    • Utahan's Oppose Nuclear Tests
    • INL ANL-W Reactor Fuel Reprocessing Delayed
    • DOE Moves on Plan to Produce Plutonium at INL
    • New Mission for INL at Expense of Cleanup
    • INL's Reactor Spent Nuclear Fuel Vulnerabilities
    • Christie Todd Whitman Head of EPA Resigns
  • May 2003 Newsletter
    • Federal Court Rules in Favor of Idaho to Require DOE Remove ALL Buried Transuranic Waste from INL
    • INL Pollution Subjects Snake River Aquifer to Significant Risk
    • INL Test Area North Proposed Cleanup Plan
    • TAN V-Tank Contaminates of Concern
  • March 2003 Newsletter
    • INL is Violating Air Emission Regulations
    • Restart of Reactor Reprocessing Defies Regulations
    • Idaho Considers allowing Reporcessing Nuclear Spent Fuel
  • February 2003 Newsletter
    • INL is Violating Air Emission Regulations
    • EPA Fines DOE $175,000 for INL Violations
  • October 2002 Newsletter
    • EPA proposed Rule to the Clean Air Act will Exempt DOE from Compliance
    • State of Idaho Files Objection to EDI Amicus Brief in Federal Court
    • INL Calciner Incinerator Closure Plan Announced
    • INL Mission Change made by DOE Without Environmental Impact Analysis
    • Federal Court Judge Approves EDI Amicus Brief
    • KYNF Hires Attorney to Pursue Litigation Against INL Waste Operations
    • Price Anderson Violations at INL
    • Environmentalists Still Awaiting EPA Petition Response
  • July 2002 Newsletter
    • EDI Launches Independent Snake River Water Sampling Program
    • Environmental Advocates File Notice of Intent to Sue Over INEEL Environmental Violations
    • INEEL High-Level Liquid Waste Plants Violate Environmental Laws by David McCoy
    • White house Plans to Gut the Clean Air Act
    • EPA Issues DOE 30Day Ultimatium for Info on Clean Air Violations
    • IDEQ Gets Religion?
    • New Nuclear Age Looms Like a Black Mushoom Cloud
    • Doctor Alice Stewart Dies at 95
  • June 2002 Newsletter
    • Enviro's File Precedent Setting lawsuit Against DOE on High-level Waste
    • EDI Challenges Idaho Approval of High-Level Tank Closure Plan
    • EPA Risks Compromising INEEL Investigation by Moving it to Seattle Region 10
    • State of Idaho Reopens Lawsuit with DOE
    • Fallen Colleague - Joe Goldfield
  • February 2002 Newsletter
    • Nuclear Waste - What is at Stake for Idahoans
    • State Reopens INEEL Hazardous Waste Permit in Response to Citizen Appeal
    • DOE Says INEEL Worst Performing National Lab
    • INEEL Permit Ignores Flooding Potential By David McCoy
    • DOE Inspector General Auidt Says INEEL Unsafe
    • EPA Region 10 Requests Extension on Environmentalist's Petition to Withdraw Idaho State Authority
    • EPA and DOE War Over Clean Air Act Rules
    • EPA Office of Enforcement Launches INEEL Investigation
  • December 2001 Newsletter
    • EPA Inspector General Requests Formal Response from EPA Region 10 on Environmentalist's Petition to Withdraw Idaho State Authority
    • DOE Starts Construction on New Radioactive Hazardous Dump in a Flood Zone Above the Snake River Aquifer
    • Radioactive and Chemical Pollution from Nuclear Waste Dumping Endangers Snake River Aquifer
    • What's Wrong With This Picture?
  • July 2001 Newsletter
    • Environmental Advocates File Notice of Intent to Sue Over INEEL Environmental Violations
    • New High-level Waste Treatment Plant Violates Regulations
    • Nuclear Caused Current Energy Shortage By David McCoy
    • New INEEL Radioactive Waste Dump
    • Just Say "No" to Renewing Nuclear Tests By Steve Erickson and Preston J. Truman
    • Independent Reviewer Blasts INEEL Worker Health Program
  • April 2001 Newsletter
    • INEEL Whistleblowers Harassed
    • Plutonium Found in Snake River Aquifer
    • Another Deranged Dump Plan
    • The Psycotic Attempt to Bring Back Atomic Energy
    • Craig Backs Nuc Power Production
  • February 2001 Newsletter
    • Auditors' Lawsuit Alleges rad-Waste Mishandling and Taxpayer Rip Off by DOE Contraactors at INEEL
    • Advocacy for the Environment
    • DOE Internal Documents Confirm Non-Compliance with Clean Air Act
    • CDC's Task Order Five Report
  • December 2000 Newsletter
    • Criticality hazard in Pit-9
    • 1,254 boxes of documents destroyed at INL
    • Radioactive releases at INL
    • INL Chosen to Produce Plutonium for NASA Pluto Trip
    • TCE Injected into Snake River Aquifer
    • DOE Wants Hazardous Waste Permits for Currently Illegal Ops Hearing Scheduled
  • November 2000
    • Buried Waste Samples Indicate Potential Criticality Hazard
    • What Else is Dumped at INEEL That is a Threat
    • More INEEL Documents Destroyed
    • HEDR Source Terms
    • INEEL RaLa Run Review
    • CDC's INEEL Document Database
  • October 2000
    • WERF Incinerator Forced to Close
    • Wild Fires at Nuclear Sites
    • INL Range Fires
    • INL Whistleblower Discloses Health Problems
    • Operation Bluenose
  • August 2000
    • National Cancer Institute Study Challenged by Independent Researchers
    • State Health Studies Also Indicate Problem Near INL
    • State Response to Gould/Sternglass
  • June 2000
    • DOE Announces Temporary Shutdown of High-Level Radioactive Waste Incinerator
    • Who Can You Trust to Tell the Truth About Incineration of High-Level Radioactive Waste?
    • WERF Incinerator Continues to Operate Without a Permit
    • Radioactive Waste Dump Slated for INE Flood Zone
    • Argonne National Laboratory West Revised Plan Still Deficient
    • INL Dose Reconstruction Health Study Update
  • April 2000 Newsletter
    • Environmental Groups Announce Victory over DOE's Plutonium Incinerator
    • Environmental Groups File Notice of Intent to Sue Over 18 Year Operation of high-Level Nuclear Waste Incinerator
  • March 2000 Newsletter
    • Environmental Groups Call for Halt to Restart of High-Level Radioactive Waste Incinerator
    • More Plutonium is Slated for the Plutonium Incinerator than DOE is Publically Acknowledging
  • January 2000 Newsletter
    • What's in the Waste Slated for the Plutonium Incinerator?
  • November 1999
    • Sierra Club, Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, and Snake River Alliance Join Plutonium Incinerator Lawsuit
  • August 1999
    • Incinerator Violates Cardinal Rule of Containment
  • July 1999
    • DOE Destroyed Another 700 Boxes of Documents
    • CDC Refuses to Include On-site Individuals in the Dose Reconstruction Health Study
    • New INL Transuranic Waste Incinerator Planned
    • Hanford Thyroid Disease Study Bombs
    • Connor Resigns as Chair of ACERER Subcommittee
  • February 1999
    • INL Document Destruction Worse than Previously Reported
    • DOE Funding of CDC Health Studies is Aggravating the Problem
    • NCEH Ignores Advisory Committee Recommendation to Include On-Site Populations in INL Study
  • January 1999
    • Document Destruction Could Threaten INEEL Health Study
    • National Cancer Institute Study Challenged by Independent Researchers
    • State Health Studies Also Indicate Problem Near INEEL
    • DOE Revises Test Area North Cleanup Plan


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