State supreme court decisions about acceptable language used to define ballot initiatives — an issue not just in Idaho but elsewhere too — may…
POCATELLO — Idaho State University and Idaho Falls-based NuCube Energy announced the site for their new Advanced Research and Test Reactor on …
Idaho — along with Utah, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Tennessee —is one of five finalist states being considered to host one of three federally designated Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses, an initiative of the Trump administration designed to spur a nuclear power renaissance.
Idaho — along with Utah, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Tennessee —is one of five finalist states being considered to host one of three federally designated Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campuses, an initiative of the Trump administration designed to spur a nuclear power renaissance.
The old line “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes” is most frequently attributed, perhaps incorrectly, to Mark Twain. The prove…
Darrell Manning, who died last month at 94, was smack in the middle of Idaho’s hot and pivotal politics of the 60s. He served four terms as a …
Before I was a legislator, I was, and still am, an Idaho Falls mom. My kids have grown up in a community shaped by Idaho National Laboratory: friends whose parents work there, school fundraisers supported by lab employees, a hometown identity built partly around being the place where nuclear energy was born. So when I read some of the recent commentary comparing the Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus to Idaho becoming the nation's nuclear dumping ground, I don't just think about it as a policy question. I think about what it would mean to sit down and explain that claim to my own children, and how much of it I'd have to walk back.
Arco calls itself the Atomic City for a reason. In 1951, our community was the site where Experimental Breeder Reactor I generated the first usable electricity from a nuclear reactor anywhere in the world. In 1955, we became the first town on the planet lit entirely by nuclear power. For nearly three decades after that, EBR-II operated just outside our city, pioneering research into fuel recycling that scientists were still refining when the program was shut down in 1994. This isn't a community encountering nuclear energy for the first time. It's the community where nuclear energy, as the world knows it, largely began.
We know what Idaho voters — in the aggregate — thought of Donald Trump in the last three presidential elections: They backed him 66.9 percent …
While Idaho Democrats spend their summer scaring constituents about the Nuclear Lifecycle Innovation Campus, China and Russia are busy doing something far more consequential: locking up the global nuclear energy market for the next 50 years.
