Environmental Defense Institute

Publications

 

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


EDI July-August 2010 Newsletter. pdf

EDI Excerpts of DOE Operations Reports Related to the Advanced Test Reactor
     Revision 11. 8/15/10. pdf


Plutonium Wastes from the U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex by Robert Alvarez
   7-7-10. pdf


EDI June 2010 Newsletter, pdf

DOE Plutonium-238 Production Start-up Plan 6.21.10  pdf

DOE Advanced Test Reactor Programs Nuclear Safety Oversight Committee
    Meeting Report, 3/23-25, 2010, pdf


EDI May 2010 Newsletter, pdf

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

EDI April 2010 Newsletter, pdf

EDI Comments on Court Released ATR Documents, XXIII, 4-5-10. pdf

EDI February-March 2010 Newsletter. pdf

EDI January 2010 Newsletter, pdf

Federal District Court Judgment on ATR FOIA Suit. pdf

Federal District Court Orders DOE to Release FOIA Documents pdf









 
 
Click on the Underlined Publication Groups Below to View   Individual Publication Listing

 

Citizens Guide to the Idaho National Laboratory
    This EDI published book offers a detailed operating and toxic emissions history of INL,

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

 

 

Environmental Defense Institute Newsletter

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 date below to view that newsletter
 

      EDI July-August 2010 Newsletter. pdf

         September 2009 Newsletter. pdf

           May 2009

        October 2007 pdf

        April 2007

        May 2006

       February 2006

       January 2006

        October 2005


       
July 2005


       
June 2005

 

        May 2005

 

         March 2005

      February 2005


      
November/December 2004

        September/October 2004

 

        July/August 2004

        May 2004

 

        April 2004


      
February 2004


      
November 2003

 

       October 2003

       August 2003

 

        June 2003

 

        May 2003

 

       March 2003

 

      February 2003

     October 2002

     September 2002

     July 2002

       June 2002

        February 2002

     December 2001

    October 2001

     July 2001

    April 2001

     February 2001

     December 2000

     October 2000

     June 2000

    April 2000

    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

    October 1999

    August 1999

    July 1999

    February 1999

  

 

 

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 )


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

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

Updated Unacceptable Risk at INL Advanced Test Reactor The Closure
  Case. 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

Citizen Action v. DOE Court Order on FOIA Suit, 3.31.08 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 Unacceptable Risks at Advanced Test Reactor (April 14, 2006)

EDI/KYNF Freedom of Information Appeal to DOE Office of Hearings
  and Appeals (12/16/05)

Environmental Defense Institute, McCoy, and Keep Yellowstone Nuclear
  Free Freedom of Information
Request for Advanced Test Reactor Safety
  Documents (10/20/05)

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

Federal Court Amicus Curiae Brief Filed by EDI in U.S.A. vs.
  Kempthorne Case Related to Litigation between the DOE and the State
 of Idaho over INL Buried Transuranic Waste  (8/26/02)

Federal Court Amicus Curiae Brief Filed in Support of Natural Resources
  Defense Council Suit Against
DOE over Nuclear Waste Policy Act
  Violations related to High-Level Waste (8/2/02), Broscious

Notice of Intent to Sue DOE, EPA, and Idaho over Operation of High-
  level Radioactive and Hazardous
Waste Processing Operations at the
  INL (7/9/02); 
EDI/KYNF/McCoy

McCoy Appellant Brief in INL Debris Processing Hazardous Waste
  Permit (1/11/02)

Amicus Brief in INL Debris Processing Hazardous Waste Permit
  (1/16/02);  Broscious

Notice of Intent to Sue DOE, EPA, and IDEQ Process Equipment Waste
  Evaporator (6/14/01)
 EDI/KYNF/McCoy

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

Notice of Intent to Sue DOE, EPA, and Idaho on Calciner Operation
  (4/11/00);  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 )

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/KYNF/McCoy Petition to EPA Office of Inspector General (4/28/06)

Environmental Defense Institute, Keep Yellowstone Nuclear Free,
    David McCoy Comments on INTEC Liquid Waste Management
    System Permit 11/25/05

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

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

EDI Comments on Plutonium Production Environmental Impact
  Statement (3/16/05)

EDI INL RWMC Pit-4 Comments (revised 3/16/05)

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

Keep Yellowstone Nuclear Free Comments on Consolidated Plutonium
  
 Production (1/31/05)

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

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

Snake River Plane Aquifer at Risk ,revised 4/7/08

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

Comments on INL High-level Waste Tank Closure Permit, INTEC Tanks
   
 WM-182 and 183, 7/11/03

Comments on EPA Region 10 Final RCRA Enforcement Authorization
   to the State of Idaho. (9/5/03)

EDI / KYNF / McCoy
Petition to Environmental Protection Agency
    Inspector General Requesting Expedited Action on its INL
    Investigation and a Stay in the Issuance of Final RCRA Authorization
    to the State of Idaho. (8\8\03)

EDI/KYNF/McCoy  Request to Idaho Department of Environmental
    Quality for Revocation of INL High-level Waste Tank
   
 RCRA Closure Permit  (7/11/03) EDI/McCoy

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

Request to EPA Inspector General to Review State of Idaho Hazardous
   Waste Enforcement Authority (7/8/02)

EDI/KYNF/McCoy Petition to Idaho to Reopen Public Comment on
   High-Level Tank Closure Plan 5/28/02,

EDI/McCoy Request to Idaho Department of Environmental Quality for
    Investigation of INL High-Level Waste Tank Farm Closure Plan,
   
 (4/18/02), 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/KYNF/McCoy High-Level Waste Environmental Impact Petition
     (2/22/02)

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 

Petition to EPA on Clean Air Act Violations at INEEL(1/17/01)
    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)  

EDI INL High-Level Waste Disposition: Letter to Regulators (8/14/98)

 

Environmental Defense Institute

        Analysis Reports on Adequacy of INL Superfund
                            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 )

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 
   pdf


EDI INL Waste Burial Ground RWMC Cleanup Plan Comments 8/24/07

Radioactive Wastes and the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership,
     Robert Alvarez


Global Nuclear Energy Partnership Fact-sheet, Robert Alvarez, 5/3/07

EDI/KYNF Comments on Idaho Department of Environmental Quality
    INL Integrated Waste Treatment Unit, pdf 2/28/07  

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 on INTEC Plan for Tank Farm Soil and Groundwater
      Cleanup (August 2006)

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

EDI Report on Snake River Plain Aquifer at Risk from INL Pollution,
  
 (12/03)

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 Review of INL's proposed Environmental Restoration at
   Argonne- West (ANL)

EDI Review of INL's proposed Environmental Restoration at the Naval
     Reactors Facility

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

EDI Comments on Revised Proposed Plan Test Area North (TAN) (12/98)

EDI Comments to IDEQ on the Independent Spent Fuel Storage
   Installation (4/21/99)

 


 

Environmental Defense Institute

Nuclear Power Issues and Problems

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






 

Environmental Defense Institute

Health Issues and Problems

      
DNA Repair from Wikipedia.org .pdf

 



Environmental Defense Institute

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 INEEL
       
(click on the underlined item below to view that report )

Stories of Downwinder Victims, Updated 3/16/05

Calculating Cumulative Radiation Doses  

Environmental Health Perspective on Ionizing Radiation and Chronic
  Lymphocytic Leukemia

EDI Letter to INL Health Effects Subcommittee requesting a hearing on
   Nevada Test Site
Fallout in Idaho, (8/5/04)

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)

Comments on CDC 2/03 Report on INL Dose Reconstruction Health
   Study, Atmospheric
Source Terms for ICPP Source Terms (1957-1959),
   Revision 14;  2/6/04

EDI Report: Secrets, Lies, and Operation Bluenose Radiation Releases
   (10/00)

EDI Comments on Centers for Disease Control INL Dose Reconstruction
  Health Study
September 2000 Task Order 5 Draft Report

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

Steve Wing Testimony to Congress on The Health Effects of Low-level
  Radiation and
Government Radiation Exposure Standards,
  July 18, 2000

EDI Report: Beryllium at INL (5/14/03)