What is New  -  Recent Postings
                  (click on individual document below)
 

    Important Long-Lived Contaminants at INL's
    RWMC Not Remediated
            by Tami Thatcher, pdf

       Unwarranted Confidence in DOE's Low-level Waste Facility
   Performance Assessment, Rev.4, by Tami Thatcher, pdf

       Rebranding the Nuclear Weapons Complex Won't Reform It
                By Robert Alvarvez, pdf

        The Truth About the SL-1 Accident,
      Understanding the Reactor Excursion and Safety
       Problems at SL-1, by Tami Thatcher, 1/8/15.  pdf

       Disposal of Highlevel Nuclear Waste and Mixed Hazardous Waste at Sandia National Laboratory
        Mixed Waste Landfill, By Davis McCoy, 1/5/15. pdf

        January 2015 EDI Newsletter.pdf

       December 2014 EDI Newsletter. pdf

        November 2014 EDI Newsletter. pdf 

     Nuclear Weapons Dismantlement Problems, Robert Alvarez, 10/24/14

     EDI's October 2014 Newsletter. pdf

    EDI Comments on INL Liquid Waste Management System Permit. Pdf

    EDI's September 2014 Newsletter. Pdf

    EDI's Radiation Victims Stories. pdf

   EDI August 2014 Newsletter. pdf
     
   Y-12: Poster Child for a Dysfunctional Nuclear Weapons Complex, Robert Alvarez, pdf
  
   EDI July 2014 Newsletter. pdf

  EDI June 2014 Newsletter . pdf

  EDI May 2014 Newsletter. Pdf

  Half-Life: How an Accident at INL Changed a Family by Jessica Murri. pdf

  EDI April 2014 Newsletter. pdf

  EDI March 2014 Newsletter. pdf

  EDI February 2014 Newsletter. pdf

  

 

 

 
 
    Click on the Underlined Publication Groups Below to
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Environmental Defense Institute News:  
    EDI's Semi-monthly Newsletter on Environmental Health and Safety Issues

Legal Challenges to Department of Energy Operations at INL
    This is a listing of court initiatives against illegal INL facilities

Petitions to Federal and State Environmental Regulators on INL Violations
    This is a listing of formal complaints to the Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Idaho

Analysis Reports on Adequacy of INL Superfund Cleanup Projects
    This is a listing of formal submittals to regulators on the deficiencies of specific INL cleanup operations

Nuclear Power Issues and Problems
    This listing shows reports dealing with nuclear power

Health Issues and Problems
      This listing shows reports dealing with health issues related to nuclear power

Critiques of Centers for Disease Control INL Dose Reconstruction Health Study
    This is a listing of formal comments and challenges to the adequacy of CDC's Research at INL

 

 

Environmental Defense Institute

Citizens Guide to the Idaho National Laboratory

    The Citizens Guide is a 200+ page book that reviews the site's operating history, radioactive waste hazards, Superfund cleanup process and health studies. The book is intended as a resource tool for individuals and public interest groups seeking information on the Department of Energy's historical, current, and planned operations in Idaho. Hard copies of the Citizens Guide are available for ten dollars ($10), and updated CDs are available for $10 from the Environmental Defense Institute. Send orders via email message or mail.
  Click here for the full report

 

           News and Information on Environmental Health
                                and Safety Issues
                   Below is a Listing of EDI's Newsletters by Year and Month
                Click on the underlined issue date below to view that newsletter

    January 2015 EDI Newsletter.   pdf
      * More Contamination to Come
      * Planned Contamination of the Aquifer is a Grave Mistake
      * America's Only Nuclear Reactor Operator Deaths
      * A Nuclear Power Plant Near Howe?
      * Radioactive Waste Cleanup Unit Takes Steps Foreward
  
   December 2014 EDI Newsletter. pdf
      * Difficult to Convince NIOSH of Department of Energy Worker
            Overexposures
      * Another Responder to SL-1 Reactor Accident Tells Story
      * James Dennis SL-1 Army Demolition Crew
      * Hanford Report States: Worker Exposures and Health Effects
           from Toxic Vapor Exposures are Real
      * Union and Public Interest Advocates Serve Notice of Intent to
          Sue, Plan to Seek Order to Protect Workers

  November 2014 EDI Newsletter. pdf 
      * More Contamination to Come
      * Department of Energy Whistleblower: Justice Over Racial
          Discrimination and Ethics Violations in a Right to Work State
          (Human Resources Ethics and Concerns)
      * Pro-Nuclear Industry Film "Energy on Trial"
      * Day of Remembrance for Nuclear Workers' is Today
      * Additional Lawsuits Filed Over Radiation Accident

     EDI's October 2014 Newsletter. pdf
       *Is Buried Low Level Radioactive Waste Contamination Over
                 Millennia Really Acceptable
       * INL to Build Replacement Remote-Handled low level Waste
               Facility
       * Status of DOE's Greater-Than-Class C Waste Storage Problems
       * Battelle Fined  for Safety Violations
       * Bringing a Nuclear Reactor Back to Life at INL
       * DOE Waste Cleanest Deadline Missed
       * EDI Comments on Hazardous Waste Permit
 
     EDI's September 2014 Newsletter. Pdf     
            * 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. pdf
            * Perched Water and Aquifer Contamination Beneath the
                INL's Advanced Test Reactor Complex
            * Department of Energy Whistleblower: Justice or Racial
                  Discrimination and Ethics Violations in a Right to
                  Work State        

    EDI July 2014 Newsletter. pdf
            * 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 . pdf
            * Radiological Accident Releases Underestimated in Emergency
               Response Preparation Documents for the INL
            * Debate over "Linear no-Threshold" Model of Radiation
               Effects
            * Climate Change Panel Doesn't See Nuclear Energy as Solution
           
     EDI May 2014 Newsletter. Pdf
            * INL Managers Deny Any Responsibility for ZIPPR Accident
            * Boise Weekly Half-Life Article Debate
            * Unbiased Nuclear Radiation Epidemiology a Rarity
     EDI April 2014 Newsletter. pdf
             * Radiation Risk Debate
             * The WIPP Problem, and what it means for defense nuclear
                 waste disposal
    EDI March 2014 Newsletter. pdf
              * "Stuck in Second" - Low Internal Dose Cancer Risk
              * Whistleblower Fired After Voicing Safety Concerns at
                 Nuclear Site
              * Remember That Nuclear Dump Site That 'Was Never
                 Supposed to Leak'?
    EDI February 2014 Newsletter. pdf
              * Proposed Resumption of Fuels Testing at INL's TREAT Reactor
              * The 2010 European Union Commission on Radiation Risk 
                  Report Highlights the Underestimation of Harm from
                    Internal Radiation
    EDI January 2014 Newsletter. pdf
               * 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. pdf
               * How Believable are Estimated Radiation Doses Following
                   Plutonium Inhalation?  
    EDI October 2013 Newsletter. pdf
                * 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. pdf
                * 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 EDI Newsletter. pdf          
               * 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. pdf
               * 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
               * Fukushima Disaster Continues: Third Radioactive Leak
               * Hanford Nuclear Waste Site at Risk of Hydrogen Explosion
               * Nuclear Dump in Washington Leaking Radioactive Waste
               * Hanford Tanks are leaking: Where do We Go from Here
               * A Contaminated Teddy Bear

         EDI April 2013 Newsletter. pdf  
                       * Foiled by FOIA
                   * Principals for Safe Grading Nuclear Waste at Reactors
                   * New Independent Study of Radiological Impact on Chernobyl
                      and Fudushima 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. pdf 
              * 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. pdf
             * 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. pdf
            * 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's August 2012 Newsletter. pdf   
           * 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. pdf
           * 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-Nuke 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. pdf       
          * DOE Releases Final Materials and Fuels Complex Accident Report
          * Root Causes - Unchanged
          * Convoluted DOE Gamesmanship
          * Will the Downwinders Finally be Heard
          * On Day of Remembrance, Downwinders Say; Not Enough is Being Done

       EDI January 2012 Newsletter. pdf    
          * 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. pdf
          * 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 "Severely Understated"
          * Fukushima Fallout Fears Over Japan Farms

        EDI September-October 2011 Newsletter. pdf
         * 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
        * Nuke Plant Headed for Wyoming ?
 
       EDI August 2011 Newsletter. pdf
         * 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. pdf

• 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. pdf

• 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. pdf

• Comparing Chernobyl 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. pdf

• 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. pdf

• 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. pdf

• 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. pdf

• 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, pdf

• Groups Petition for Advanced Test Reactor Safety Review

• Idaho Cancer Rates Continue to Rise at Record Levels

• Hanford Downwinders Lawsuit Update

• Hanford Downwinders Get Their Day in Court
          
  May 2010 Newsletter, pdf

• 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. pdf

• 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 Downwinders Champion - Stewart Udall
       
  February-March Newsletter -pdf

• 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 -pdf

• 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 - pdf

• 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. pdf

• 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

• 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. pdf

• 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 for Nuclear Forces

• The News on Nukes

• A-bomb Certification Ruling to Stand
  
  June -July 2009

• 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 

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Advanced Test Reactor Shutdown Due to Seismic Problems

• FOIA Documents Reveal More Problems with Advanced Test 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     

•  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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Judge Windmill Agrees to Reconsider Advanced Test Reactor Ruling

• Trick or Treat

• Cancer-Is Treatment Worth the Costs

• 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

• 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 pdf

• 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 pdf

• 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  pdf

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Atomic Fallout

• Divine Strike Bites The dusk

• Nuke Workers Woes Continue

• Real Masters of Space

• Global Nuclear Energy Partnership
          

        April 2007

• 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

• 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

• DOE Launches New INL Mixed Hazardous and Radioactive Waste Treatment Plan

• Thyroiditis Linked to Fallout

• Matheson Acts on Fallout Study
  
  September 2006

• 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
  
  June 2006

• 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

• 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
  

       January 2006

• Groups Challenge Plutonium Production Program Using 40-Year-Old Reactor

• Russian Cancer Study Adds to the Indictment of Low-Dose Radiation Hazard
  

        August 2006

• FOIA Lawsuit Filed by KYNF-EDI

• DOE Files Notice of Appeal on Idaho Nuclear Waste

• INL Cleanup Inadequate    
  
  February 2006

• DOE Managers Discuss Shutdown of Advanced Test Reactor

• Fallout Study Corrects Old Estimate 
  
  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

• Radiation Exposure Compensation Act Better than DOE Worker Compensation Bill Tribute to Another Fallen Idaho Downwinder

        June 2005

• 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 Polluter

• 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

• 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
    

       February 2005. pdf
      * DOE Launches 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

• 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

• 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

     

     May 2004

• 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

• 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

• Legacy of Hanford
• Bush Administration Attack on America's Clean Skies

     

    February 2003

• INL is Violating Air Emission Regulations
• EPA Fines DOE $175,000 for INL Violations

     October 2002

• 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

     December 2000

• 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

     October 2000

• WERF Incinerator Forced to Close
• Wild Fires at Nuclear Sites
• INL Range Fires
• INL Whistleblower Discloses Health Problems
• Operation Bluenose

     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

• Victory over DOE's Plutonium Incinerator
• Notice of Intent to Sue Filed

    January 2000

· 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

  

 

Environmental Defense Institute

Legal Challenges to Department of Energy
Operations   at INL
    This is a listing of court and other initiatives by EDI, KYNF, and/or David McCoy
against illegal INL facilities
         (click on the underlined item below to view that initiative )

DOE Office of Hearings and Appeals Rules EDI FOIA 3/14/11 be
   Remanded Back to DOE/Idaho for Compliance. OHA Case No.
   TFC-0009; Idaho Case No.10-032D (OM-PA-11-002), 12/20/12. pdf

EDI/KYNF FOIA Appeal to Office of Hearings and Appeals, 9.30.10 - pdf

EDI/KYNF FOIA to DOE Related to Advanced Test Reactor-6.23.10
  -pdf.

EDI-KYNF Petition to Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board, 4-27-10.
   

EDI Comments on Court Released ATR Documents, XXIII, 4-5-10. pdf
 
Federal District Court Judgment on ATR FOIA Suit. pdf

Federal District Court Orders DOE to Release FOIA Documents pdf

EDI Notes on FOIA Documents, (2-19-09) pdf

EDI - KYNF FOIA Appeal to DOE Office of Hearings and Appeals
 (2-12-09)  pdf

NRDC et al. Challenge DOE's Amendment to Waste Management PEIS
  Record of Decision. pdf

KYNF/EDI et al. Reply Memorandum in KYNF v. DOE 12/13/07 pdf

KYNF/EDI et al. Memorandum of Points and Authorities in Support of
  Plaintiffs' Rule 59(e) Motion to Alter Judgment in KYNF v. DOE
  11/9/07  pdf

Wyoming District Court Order in KYNF v. DOE FOIA Litigation
  (9/24/07)  pdf

KYNF and Co-Plaintiffs in KYNF v. DOE Reply Memorandum,
  (9/14/07)  pdf

Motion for Summary Judgment in KYNF vs. DOE 6/22/07

KYNF/EDI v. US DOE Court Filing in Freedom of Information Act Suit
  (2/07) pdf

KYNF/EDI v. US DOE Complaint on ATR NEPA Violations (1/07)

KYNF, EDI and McCoy File Complaint in U.S. Federal Court Seeking
  ATR Safety Information (8/7/06)

EDI and McCoy Appeal to Office of Hearings and Appeals DOE's refusal
  to release requested Freedom of Information Documents October 14,
  2005

Lawsuit filed against DOE by David McCoy over INL Freedom of
  Information Act Document Request  Denial, September 15, 2003

Petition for Declaratory Ruling on INL High-Level Waste Calciner
  Closure (9/19/00); EDI/KYNF/McCoy

Environmental Defense Institute

Petitions to Environmental Regulators on INL Violations
    This is a listing of formal complaints to the Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Idaho
        (click on the underlined item below to view that initiative )

  Comments on Draft Environmental Assessment for Resumption of
     Transient Testing of Nuclear Fuels and Materials, Tami Thatcher,
     1/10/14. pdf

Who Should Manage the Nuclear Weapons Complex
          by Robert Alvarez, 21 December 2012. pdf

Unacceptable Risk at INL Advanced Test Reactor, The Case for Closure
       Updated 1/13, Rev. No. 6-03. pdf

 Summary of Advanced Test Reactor Shutdowns (1973-9/20/12). pdf

Joint Letter to ID Governor Otter : Mackey Dam: A Preventable
     Disaster. Pdf

EDI Comments on DOE EIS for Disposal Greater-than-Class C
  Radioactive Waste. 5-12-11 pdf

EDI INL Operations Report Excerpts, Related to Advanced Test Reactor
   Rev.16. 10.17.10

EDI Excerpts of DOE Operations Reports Related to the Advanced Test
   Reactor Revision 15.  8/16/10. pdf

EDI/KYNF Petition to EPA Inspector General Requesting Investigation
    of Idaho Hazardous Waste Program, 3/07. pdf

Joint EDI/KYNF/McCoy Comments on EPA Plan to Grant Idaho
      RCRA/HWMA Authorization  (12/4/06) pdf

EDI Comments on U.S. EPA Region 10 Notice of Public Comment on
   State of Idaho Final Authorization to Revise its Hazardous Waste
   Program under Resource Conservation Recovery Act Noticed in the
   Federal Register 6/2/05.

EDI Comments on EPA Reauthorization of Idaho Hazardous Waste
    Management Plan (6/2/05)

EDI Comments INL High-level Liquid Waste Evaporator RCRA Permit
    (5/10/05

David McCoy Comments on US DOE Consolidated Plutonium
  Production (1/6/05)

Review of EPA Region 10  Response to Petition Seeking Withdrawal of
  Authorization for Idaho's Hazardous Waste Program.  July 14, 2004

EDI Comments on INL Argonne National Laboratory-West RCRA
    Permit, 5/7/04

EDI Comments on INL INTEC Liquid Waste Management System
  RCRA Permit 4/7/04

Supplemental Information to EPA Petition (2/28/03) on INL Title V
     Clean Air Act Permit,(3/12/03)

EDI/KYNF/McCoy Petition to EPA to Reopen INL Title V Clean Air
   Act Permit (2/28/03)

EDI/KYNF/McCoy Comments on INL Resource Conservation
   Recovery Act Permit (NOD) and Idaho Environmental Quality  Review
   of INL Liquid Waste Processing Operations, 2/3/03

EDI/KYNF/McCoy Supplemental Information to Petition to EPA Office
   of Enforcement  related to Clean Air Act Violations at INL, 1/30/03 

EDI/KYNF/McCoy Hazardous Waste Code Discrepancies; letter to EPA
    Inspector General, EPA Office of Enforcement, and Idaho Department
    of Environmental Quality (12/27/02) EDI/KYNF/McCoy

Petition to Reopen Public Participation Due to Failure to Meet RCRA
     Requirements for Addition of the High-Level Liquid Waste
    Evaporator at INL  (10/23/02) EDI/McCoy

Rebuttal to EPA Region 10 March 7, 2002 Response to the Petition to
   EPA to Commence Proceedings for Withdrawal of the Idaho
   Department of Environmental Quality as the RCRA Authority for the
   State of Idaho (4/2/02) 

EDI/McCoy Rebuttal to Idaho Reply to EDI Petition to Withdraw State
   of Idaho's  Hazardous Waste Enforcement Authority (11/16/01)

EDI/KYNF/McCoy McCoy Petition to EPA to withdraw State of Idaho's
    Hazardous Waste  Enforcement Authority (1/29/02)

Petition to EPA on Clean Air Act (MACT) Violations (7/24/01)
   EDI/McCoy

Issues Presented to US EPA Inspector General on INL Violations of
   Environmental Law (2/5/01)  EDI/KYNF/McCoy 

Request to Environmental Protection Agency Inspector General to
    investigate INL hazardous waste permits (8/8/00)
    EDI/KYNF/McCoy

EDI Process Equipment Waste Evaporator Resource Conservation
    Recovery Act Permit Comments (12/22/00)  

 

 

Environmental Defense Institute

 Analysis Reports on Adequacy of INL
Cleanup Projects
    This is a listing of submittals to regulators on the deficiencies of specific INL
       cleanup operations
        (click on the underlined item below to view that initiative )

     Unwarranted Confidence in DOE's Low-level Waste Facility
       Performance Assessment, Rev.4,Tami Thatcher, pdf.

The Truth About the SL-1 Accident, Understanding the Reactor Excursion
       and Safety Problems at SL-1, by Tami Thatcher, 1/8/15.  pdf 

EDI Comments on INL Liquid Waste Management System Permit. Pdf
        Section II to V. Section VI. Tank List

EDI Comments on INL Integrated Waste Treatment Unit, 8/13. pdf

Snake River Plain Aquifer at Risk, Rev. 30, 9/12. pdf

EDI Comments on DOE New Remote-Handled Radioactive Waste
       Dump at INL; Rev.3; 3.12. pdf

Buried Nuclear Waste Problems at INL, Letter to Governor and INL
    Oversight Program, 9/21/11. pdf

Risky Appropriations: Gambling US Energy Policy on the Global
   Nuclear Energy Partnership; Robert Alvarez, David Schlissle and
   Peter Bradford; pdf

EDI Comments on ID/DOE Agreement to Implement Buried Waste Plan
    (7/13/08) pdf

EDI-KYNF Comments on DOE Amendment to Waste Management PEIS
    Record of Decision and  Greater Than Class C Waste EIS, 7.2.08, pdf

EDI Final Comments on INL RWMC Buried Waste Program 11/21/07 
   

Radioactive Wastes and the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership,
     Robert Alvarez

EDI/KYNF Comments on Idaho Department of Environmental Quality
    INL Integrated Waste Treatment Unit, 2/28/07 [Rev.2].

EDI Comments on INL Engineering Test Reactor
     Decommissioning/Decontamination (11/13/06)

EDI Comments on New DOE Proposed INL INTEC Liquid Waste 
   Permit Modification Request (11/2/06)

EDI Comments on INTEC Plan for Tank Farm Soil and Groundwater
      Cleanup (October 30, 2006) pdf

EDI Comments for the Record on the Mixed Hazardous-High-Level
   Waste Tank Closure Plans for INL  July 14, 2004

EDI Comments on INL Radioactive Waste Management Complex Pit-4
      Remediation (5/25/04)

EDI Comments on INL INTEC VES-SFE-106  Waste Tank Closure Plan
    (5/13/05)

EDI INL Test Area North Revised Cleanup Plan Comments (5/1/03)

Review of INL High-level Radioactive Waste Tank Closure Plans,
   1/3/04

List of Un-permitted INL INTEC Waste Tanks, 12/5/03

Comments on INL High-level Waste Tank Closure Permit, INTEC Tanks
    WM-184, 185, and 186,11/25/03

EDI Comments on Proposed Argonne National Laboratory Variance on
     Reprocessing at INL, (3/18/03)

Comments by David McCoy on Proposed ANL-W Variance on
   Reprocessing at INL (3/18/03)

EDI Report on ICPP (INTEC) Groundwater Contamination at INL

EDI Comments on Locating the INL CERCLA Mixed
    Hazardous/Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility (ICDF) (4/5/01) 

EDI Comments on Department of Energy INL Idaho Chemical
    Processing Plant Proposed Cleanup Plan (11/19/98)

EDI Comments on Test Reactor Area Cleanup Plan  3/27/97

 

 

 

 

                       Nuclear Power Issues and Problems

An Unexpected Mortality Increase in US Follows Arrival of the Radioactive Plume
  from Fukushima: There is a Correlation. pdf

Improving Spent Nuclear Fuel Storage at U.S. Commercial Nuclear Reactors,
        Robert Alvarez. 1.12.pdf

 Review and Comment on Draft Legislation to Amend Nuclear Policy Act,
        By Robert Alvarez, 5-13.  pdf

 

 

Health Issues and Problem

EDI's Radiation Victim Stories. pdf

 Chernobyl and Fukushima, and Other Hot Places pdf

      DNA Repair from Wikipedia.org .pdf


German Study Finds Leukemia Increase. Pdf

 

Critiques of Centers for Disease Control
 INL Dose Reconstruction Health Study
    This is a listing of formal comments and challenges to the adequacy of CDC's
Research at INL
        (click on the underlined item below to view that report )

EDI Comments on CDC Aerosol Releases from Idaho Chemical
  Processing Plant, and Critical Review of Source Terms for Aircraft
  Nuclear Propulsion Program at INL, (6/23/04)

EDI Estimating ICPP RaLa Green Run Source Terms at INL.pdf

EDI Comments on CDC INL Dose Reconstruction Health Study on
   Atmospheric Source Terms for ICPP.

EDI Estimating Radioactive Source Terms at INLEDI Report to Centers for Disease Control: Estimating Radiation
  Emissions (Source Terms) at INL

CDC Aerosol Releases from INEEL Idaho Chemical Processing Plant
   (ICPP) 1957-1959.  7.05. pdf

CDC Source Term Initial Engine Tests Associated with Aircraft
  Nuclear Propulsion Program at INEEL. 7-05.  pdf

For More Information on CDC INEEL Reports go to:
  http://www.cdc.gov/nceh/radiation/ineel/