What is New  -  Recent Postings
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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

• 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 Downwinder 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 Downwinder 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 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. 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 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

• 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 Woollens

• 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

• 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

• 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 html

• 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

• Thyroditis 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
  
  August 2006

• Keep Yellowstone Nuclear Free Files FOIA Lawsuit Seeking ATR Safety Information

• DOE Files Notice of Appeal in Idaho Nuclear Waste Ruling

• INL Cleanup Plans Still Inadequate

• Supreme Court Rules Against Government Whistleblower Rights

• Senate Approves Whistleblower Rights Breakthrough! House of Representatives Action Remains Uncertain

• No Nevada Test Blast for Months, Judge Says

• DOE Says it Plans to Go Ahead with Devine Strike

• Candidate Calls Vote Eliminating Net Neutrality a Tremendous Disappointment
  
  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
  
  March 2006

• Unacceptable Risks at the Advanced Test Reactor

• U.S. and British Conduct Nuclear Experiment in Nevada

• Where's Help for Downwinders?

• Downwinders Say Fallout Study Doses Do Not Add Up

• CDC Posts Final Report on Fallout Study
   

       February 2006

• DOE Managers Discuss Shutdown of Forty-Year-Old Advanced Test Rector

• Fallout Study Corrects Old Estimates

• Groups Petition DOE to Post INL Accident Reports
   

       January 2006

• 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
  
  September 2005

• Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne Supports Plutonium Production in Idaho Despite Wide Spread Public Opposition

• DOE Cuts Radiation Victim Compensation

• Idaho Remains as NASA Nuclear Rocket Testing Location

• NRDC Continues the Good Legal Fight on DOE Attempt to Reclassify High-level Waste
  
  August 2005

• Serious Safety Issues at INL Revealed by Former Analyst

• DOE Spin Versus Reality

• Comments by Robert Alvarez on Inadequate DOE Regulation

• Advanced Test Reactor is Catastrophic Accident Waiting to Happen

• Tiger Team Assessment

• US is Set to Resume the Production of Plutonium-238

• Report Challenges Plutonium Exposure Standards

        July 2005

• DOE Releases EIS on Plutonium Production in Idaho

• Report on Hanford Finds Plutonium in Fish, Toxic Mulberry Trees

• EPA Region 10 Tries Again to Reauthorize State of Idaho Enforcement Authority

• Senate Restores Funds for Nuke Bomb Projects

• Plutonium Production in Idaho Widely Challenged

• Low Levels of Ionizing Radiation May Cause Harm

        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 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

• 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 Launches New Plutonium Production in Idaho
• Nuclear Rockets Undergoing Testing
• Downwinder Letter to Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden
• Hanford Downwinder Case Slated for Trial
• Congress Uncertain on Bush Requests for Funding for Nuclear Weapons
• Review of What Health Studies are Needed and Which are Not
• Calculating Radiation Dose
• Timeless Advisory from Thomas Jefferson

       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

 

        July/August 2004

• Idaho Cancer Rates Continue to Rise at Record Levels
• Tragic Legacy of US Development of Radiation Bombs
• CDC's INL Health Study
• CDC Analysis of INL Aircraft Nuclear Propulsion Project
• EDI Renews Pressure on EPA Inspector General to Follow up on INL Deficiencies
• INL Moves Ahead with Closure of High-Level Radioactive Waste Tanks Despite Court Ruling
   

        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

       February 2004

• EPA Inspector General Issues Report Showing INL Violations
• High-Level Waste Tank Closure for INL Threatens Aquifer
• CDC Report on INL Shows Huge Deficiencies
• New DOE Attempts to Cut Corners on INL Cleanup

       November 2003

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

 

       October 2003

• Idaho Cancer Rates at Record Levels
• Nuclear Weapons Testing in Nevada Restart Approved by US Senate Impacts 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 INL 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

• Court Rules No on Reclassification of Nuclear Waste
• DOE Appeals Forced Cleanup of INL 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 INL Reactor

 

        June 2003

• Nuclear Reactors Pose Health Hazard
• U.S. Congress Approves Nuclear Bomb Tests
• Utah's Oppose Nuclear Tests
• INL Argonne National Laboratory-West Reactor Fuel Reprocessing Delayed
• DOE Moves on Plan to Produce Plutonium at INL
• New Mission for INL at Expense of Cleanup
• INL Reactor Spent Fuel Vulnerabilities
• Christine Todd Whitman Head of EPA Resigns

 

        May 2003

• Federal Court Rules in Favor of Idaho on Buried TRU Waste
• Snake River Aquifer at Risk
• Test Area North Proposed Revised Plan
• Restart of Nuclear Bomb Testing

 

       March 2003

• INL is Violating Air Emission Regulations
• Restart of Reactor Fuel Reprocessing Defies Regulations
• Idaho Considers Allowing Reprocessing Nuclear Spent Fuel

 

      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

     September 2002

• EDI Challenges DOE Intent to Leave Buried Waste at INL

     July 2002

• EDI Launches Independent Snake River Water Sampling Program
• Environmental Advocates File Notice of Intent to Sue Over INL Environmental Violations
• INL High-Level Liquid Waste Plants Violate Environmental Laws
• White House Plans to Gut the Clean Air Act
• EPA Issues DOE 30-Day Ultimatum for Info on Clean Air Act Violations
• EDI's Environmental Advocacy at Work for You
• What Can You Do?
• Dr. Alice Stewart Dies at 95

       June 2002

• 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 INL Investigation by Moving it to Seattle
• State of Idaho Reopens Lawsuit with DOE

        February 2002

• Nuclear Waste - What is at Stake for Idahoans
• State Reopens INL Hazardous Waste Permit in Response to Citizen Appeal
• DOE Says INL Worst Performing National Lab
• INL Permit Ignores Flooding Potential
• DOE Inspector General Audit Says INL 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 INL Investigation

     December 2001

• EPA Inspector General Requests Formal Response from EPA Region 10 on Environmentalists' Petition to Withdraw Idaho State Authority
• DOE Starts Construction on New Radioactive Hazardous Waste Dump in a Flood Zone Above Snake River Aquifer
• Radioactive and Chemical Pollution from Nuclear Waste Dumping Endangers Snake River Aquifer

    October 2001

• Reflections on September 11, 2001
• Time for Introspection
• Nuclear Terrorism - How Long Can US Luck Hold Up?
• Idaho Fails Test to Enforce Hazardous Waste Laws
• A Critical Analysis of INL's Proposed Hazardous Waste Dump

     July 2001

• Environmental Advocates File Notice of Intent
• High-level Waste Treatment Plant Violates Regulations
• Nuclear Caused Current Energy Shortage
• New INL Radioactive Waste Dump
• Just say No to Renewed Nuclear Tests
• Independent Reviewers Blast INL Worker Health Program 

    April 2001

• INL Whistleblowers Harassed
• Plutonium Found in Snake River Aquifer
• Another Deranged Dump Plan
• Psychotic Attempt to Bring Back Atomic Energy
• Craig Backs Nuclear Power Production

     February 2001

• Auditors’ Lawsuit Alleges Radwaste Mishandling and Taxpayer Ripoff by DOE Contractors at INL
• Advocacy for the Environment
• DOE Internal Documents Confirm Non-compliance with Clean Air Act
• CDC’s Task Order Five Report

     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

    October 1999

• Suit Against DOE Incinerator
• Dangers of the Contemplated Incinerator

    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 )

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)