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Cleanup workers have finished processing the remaining waste at a U.S. Department of Energy facility where four radioactive waste drums ruptured last year.
Former nuclear workers can go to the Sept. 5 Idaho Falls Chukars game for free.
Several dozen people came to the Idaho Falls Power office Thursday evening to learn more about plans to build 12 small nuclear reactors at the U.S. Department of Energy site west of Idaho Falls.
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It was a busy day at Idaho National Laboratory on Wednesday.
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The company that plans to build 12 small nuclear reactors near Idaho Falls has received federal grants to build reactor plant simulators at three universities, including at the Center for Advanced Energy Studies, a research and education consortium between Idaho National Laboratory, Boise St…
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Idaho National Laboratory could be the center of nuclear reactor development in America for decades to come, the U.S. Department of Energy announced Wednesday.
Although her path in life has taken her many places, Linda Guinn Montgomery can’t seem to stop coming home.
Around the world, advanced lithium-ion (li-ion) batteries are used for so many of the products we see as relative necessities: cars, airplanes, drones, cellphones and other electronics, to name a few.
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Idaho National Laboratory unveiled its latest research building Thursday.
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In the midst of controversy over diversity programs at Idaho’s universities, two of Idaho National Laboratory’s top executives this week reaffirmed their support for diversity.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) is proving that good things really do come in small packages.
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A new nuclear test reactor is needed as part of an effort to revamp the nation’s fading nuclear power industry by developing safer fuel and power plants, the U.S. Department of Energy said Monday.
BOISE (AP) — The federal government wants to build a nuclear test reactor as part of an effort to revamp the nation's fading nuclear power industry by developing safer fuel and power plants.
Nuclear Care Partners is throwing a picnic next month for former U.S. Department of Energy, Idaho National Laboratory and Argonne-West workers.
It’s official: Last week’s Sheep Fire was the biggest in the history of Idaho National Laboratory.
A 113,000-acre fire on the U.S. Department of Energy site west of Idaho Falls is expected to be fully contained Friday evening.
Fire officials maintain the Sheep Fire at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) is 60% contained with no active burning visible at this time. Crews continue to monitor and work the perimeter of the fire to extend containment lines. New information leads officials to expect full containment by Frid…
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Scores of firefighters are still in the desert west of Idaho Falls battling what looks to be the biggest wildfire in the history of Idaho National Laboratory and one of the biggest in the lower 48 states so far this year.
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As a result of the Sheep Fire, operations for non-essential staff have been curtailed for all Idaho National Laboratory Site facilities except the Specific Manufacturing Capability and the Radioactive Waste Management Complex for Wednesday, July 24. Employees should watch for lab communicati…
Idaho Falls city officials are planning to create a citizens’ committee to make recommendations on ways to make Idaho Falls a community people want to move to.
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Recording rap lyrics about lithium ion batteries and squeezing backup dancers into cars is not a normal day’s work at Idaho National Laboratory.
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The Idaho Transportation Department advises drivers to use an alternate route between Arco to Idaho Falls due to the Sheep Fire.
The U.S Nuclear Regulatory Commission has finished the second and third phases of reviewing the design of the small nuclear reactors planned to be built in the desert west of Idaho Falls.
Little did Darrell Pfannenstiel know when he came to work at Argonne National Laboratory-West in 1977 that after retiring in 2010 he would one day see his youngest son, Kevin — who had not yet even been born in 1977 — working there.
A bill to bring in national laboratories to study ways to protect the electrical grid from cyberattacks passed the U.S. House on Wednesday.
Local cities have reached deals to use more than 150 megawatts of power from a small nuclear reactor project planned for eastern Idaho.
A recent discovery by researchers at Idaho National Laboratory could correct a decades-old error important in the field of nuclear data. The correction could aid scientists studying fallout from nuclear detonations or experimental nuclear fuels for advanced reactors. The research appears onl…
The third year of a summer camp to teach local high school students about cybersecurity starts next week.
LOGAN, Utah — The Logan Municipal Council unanimously voted to continue its participation in a first-of-its-kind nuclear reactor project near Idaho Falls — but not without objection from the mayor.
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Researchers at Idaho National Laboratory are playing a key role in developing a propulsion system that could someday power a manned mission to Mars.
