Nuclear Projects Come and Go in Idaho
A
group of local businessmen in rural Butte County, Idaho, wants to build
a 1500 MW commercial nuclear reactor at a site on private land near
Howe, ID, located 10 miles west of the Idaho National Laboratory, and
some 60 miles west of Idaho, Falls, ID. They are the latest in local
efforts to pursue this type of effort.
A penny
stock firm that allegedly took $14 million from investors, in a pump and
dump stock scheme, based on claims it would build a nuclear power plant
in Idaho is now in hot water with the SEC and the IRS. Civil and
criminal charges have been filed by the SEC and the IRS against AEHI for
stock fraud and tax evasion. A trial date on the criminal charges has
been set for January.
U.S. Rep. Mike Simpson,
who sits on the House Appropriations Committee, was able to insure that
the omnibus appropriations bill that passed the House this week
rejects cuts to the Idaho National Laboratory, and increases money for nuclear energy research.
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