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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…
When it comes to cybersecurity talent, the Idaho Falls area punches well above its weight class.
The U.S. Department of Energy is giving Idaho State University $800,000 for research that will help develop new nuclear fuels.
Former atomic and U.S. Department of Energy workers are invited to a National Day of Remembrance Celebration in Idaho Falls on Friday.
Idaho National Laboratory will be well represented at the Idaho Technology Council's 10th annual Hall of Fame celebration, which will take place today at the Boise Centre.
More than 50 people attended Idaho National Laboratory’s “Chernobyl — Just the Facts,” the first of its series of talks on the 1986 nuclear disaster, at the College of Eastern Idaho on Tuesday. INL officials chose the topic due to increased interest in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster followin…
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Idaho National Laboratory cut the ribbon on two new buildings Monday that, it is hoped, will help give a major boost to the lab’s cybersecurity work and its research collaboration with the state’s colleges and universities.
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Several hundred workers at the Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment Project, a facility that will be done with its waste treatment work in about a month, gathered Thursday to hear thanks from their bosses and local and state officials.
Editor's note: This article has been updated to correct the room at College of Eastern Idaho where the Oct. 15 lecture will be held.
Idaho National Laboratory is launching a new security institute to study ways to secure fifth-generation wireless technology.
Western governors are disappointed that the U.S. Department of Energy didn’t consult their states’ nuclear waste experts before releasing a five-year plan for a nuclear waste facility in New Mexico, the governors say.
Today, Mars is cold and dry with only a thin wisp of an atmosphere, but 3.5 billion years ago, the Red Planet was likely a warm, wet world not too dissimilar from Earth.
