BETHESDA, Md. — A competition between nuclear waste dumps has pulled the Nuclear Regulatory Commission into an unusual reconsideration of its rules to allow moderately radioactive materials to be diluted into a milder category that is easier to bury.
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energysolutions NewsNarrow your search by visiting an issue-specific news page, listed in the navigation at left. Lee and EnergySolutions
Jul 01, 2010
Salt Lake Tribune
Mike Lee is already just like all the politicians he claims to be so different from. He campaigned to represent the views of the people of Utah, just as all politicians do. But just like all the politicians he says he is different from, he wallows at the trough of EnergySolutions and says that foreign nuclear waste is OK in Utah, even though the majority of Utahns are opposed to it. Lee’s first priority is his big, corporate contributor EnergySolutions; the people of Utah are second. Nuclear cocktail
Jun 11, 2010
Salt Lake Tribune
If you combine hamburger and soy beans and call it a vegetable burger, you're doing vegetarians a disservice. The meat is still part of the patty. Likewise, if the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission allows the nuclear industry to blend assorted low-level radioactive wastes to achieve a mix that unfairly qualifies for disposal in the Beehive State, Utahns will be done a disservice. Like meat in a fake vegeburger, the hotter wastes that we prohibit would still be a part of the mix. Radioactive blending could send waste to Utah
Jun 10, 2010
Salt Lake Tribune
Utah, say federal regulators, can help solve a big problem for the nuclear industry: the pileup of low-level radioactive waste at many of the nation's reactors. Much of the hottest low-level waste -- though far less radioactive than used fuel rods -- is stored at 90 power plants because nuclear companies have nowhere to dispose of it. Nuclear waste
Jun 08, 2010
Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions has worked hard to make its stockholders happy. The publicly traded firm has spent countless dollars to try to influence regulatory decisions, purchase politicians with campaign contributions and court public opinion through advertising campaigns, all in an attempt to expand its line of services and make a larger profit. |
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