The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Environmental Management last week issued a draft request for proposals for the Idaho Cleanup Project procurement at the Idaho National Laboratory site and the Fort St. Vrain facility in Colorado.
Across Idaho, high school students and teachers are learning to fight cyberthreats.
Hundreds of high school students will soon be able to tour the Idaho National Laboratory without leaving their classrooms.
Idaho National Laboratory officials announced the lab will be hosting the United States Nuclear Industry Council’s 2021 Advanced Reactor Summit.
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BOISE — The Integrated Waste Treatment Unit should be processing waste by the end of the year, the new head of the Idaho Cleanup Project said Thursday.
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BOISE — Idaho’s governor and attorney general announced a new deal with the U.S. Department of Energy on Tuesday addressing the handling of spent nuclear fuel generated during the Advanced Test Reactor’s operations.
Due to severe weather, the Materials and Fuels Complex at Idaho National Laboratory will curtail for the day on Tuesday, Feb. 4. Operations at all other INL in-town and Site facilities will resume normal operations today.
Due to severe weather, all operations at Idaho National Laboratory are curtailed today both in Idaho Falls and at the Site. This includes Battelle Energy Alliance, U.S. Department of Energy, Naval Reactors Facilities and Fluor Idaho employees. More information will be provided after 8 a.m. f…
The City of Idaho Falls joined a delegation from Idaho last week travelling to Waynesboro, Georgia, the home of Plant Vogtle. When complete, Plant Vogtle, units 3 and 4, will be the first new nuclear units built in the United States in the last three decades.
Christine King has been selected by Idaho National Laboratory as the next director for its high-profile program that oversees new nuclear energy developments and private sector partnerships, the lab announced Thursday.
A new feature was quietly added to Idaho Falls’ skyline last week: a skinny, 70-foot-tall wind turbine.
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U.S. Highway 20 West is expected to remain closed as law enforcement work to clean up spilled diesel fuel from a Wednesday morning crash.
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At approximately 8:40 a.m. today, a crash involving an Idaho National Laboratory bus, a private fuel tanker, two government vehicles and two private vehicles occurred on U.S. 20 west of Idaho Falls.
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A lot looked different when this decade started. The U.S. and global economies were still mired in recession. Idaho Falls had a different mayor and City Council.
In times of growing cyber threats and severe weather, resilience — the ability to continue providing emergency services while damaged infrastructure is restored — has emerged as a growing concern among leaders at state and local levels. The world is held together with strands far more fragil…
When it was time for his twin granddaughters to learn to drive, James W. Codding Jr. taught them in his farm truck on the family ranch off of Cotton Road.
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The $738 billion defense funding bill that passed the Senate on Tuesday and the $1.4 trillion spending bills that passed the House both included numerous Idaho-related items, including money for Idaho National Laboratory, nuclear research and rural counties.
Experimental Breeder Reactor I, located 50 miles west of Idaho Falls on U.S. Highway 20, will be open to the public from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. Admission to the museum is free.
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The U.S. Department of Energy has started the process to find the next contractor who will run the Idaho Cleanup Project.
The small nuclear reactors NuScale Power plans to build at the U.S. Department of Energy desert site west of Idaho Falls have cleared another regulatory hurdle.
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Fluor Idaho is using a virtual reality simulator to help train for some waste disposal challenges.
Idaho National Laboratory employees raised more than $500,000 for local branches of the United Way this year.
Idaho National Laboratory’s K-12 Education Enrichment program has launched a new Coding Coalition to support extracurricular computer science clubs in eastern Idaho schools.
The third supercomputer arrived at Idaho National Laboratory’s Collaborative Computing Center this week.
Four Idaho National Laboratory technologies recently won prestigious national awards.
The contractor that runs Idaho National Laboratory is looking for private partners to build the first new test reactor in the United States in decades.
The manager of the Idaho Cleanup Project is moving on to a new job with the U.S. Department of Energy.
Students from the University of Idaho’s Idaho Falls campus were celebrating Saturday after taking first place locally in the 2019 Department of Energy CyberForce Competition held at Idaho National Laboratory.
Idaho National Laboratory’s internship program has been recognized as one of the five best energy internship programs in the nation by Vault Magazine. The ranking is based off student intern feedback provided directly to Vault. Vault surveyed nearly 14,000 current and former interns from mor…
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The state of Idaho and the U.S. Department of Energy have reached a deal that could allow the resumption of shipments of spent research fuel to Idaho National Laboratory.
More than 100 local high school students came through Compass Academy on Monday night to get a glimpse of the high-paying jobs available in eastern Idaho.
Idaho National Laboratory has been honored with two Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Awards in 2019 in the Far West Region. The FLC is formally chartered and mandated by Congress to promote, educate and facilitate technology transfer nationwide among more than 300 federal laboratories, re…
