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heal NewsNarrow your search by visiting an issue-specific news page, listed in the navigation at left. Radioactive waste shipments to Utah site facing year delay
Oct 14, 2009
Salt Lake Tribune
Drums of radioactive cleanup waste in South Carolina are ready for loading onto rail cars for the journey to a Tooele County disposal site. But now those plans could be delayed more than a year, after the state Radiation Control Board voted Tuesday to allow more depleted uranium (DU) only after EnergySolutions Inc. submits a report confirming its extra steps to safeguard the waste will work. The move was a victory for the Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah (HEAL) which has sought at least a temporary moratorium on DU, as the uranium-enrichment waste is called. Gov. Herbert will not take a stand on foreign waste bill
Oct 11, 2009
ABC4
SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) – Governor Gary Herbert refuses to take stand on bill to ban foreign waste in Utah. Energy Solutions wants to bring about 20,000 tons of low level radioactive energy waste from Italy to be disposed in this State. Gov. Herbert does not want foreign waste in Utah, but he will not write a letter to support the bill either says Angie Welling, Governor’s spokeswoman. Copyright 2009 Newport Television LLC All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Utah won't take a stand on national foreign nuke waste ban
Oct 10, 2009
Salt Lake Tribune
Utah Gov. Gary Herbert objects to Utah being a disposal site for foreign radioactive waste, but he will not be throwing his support behind federal legislation to ban waste imports. The Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah (HEAL) asked the Republican governor to write a letter last week in support of the Radioactive Import Deterrence Act, dubbed "RID," a bill co-sponsored by U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, to outlaw the importation of foreign waste nationally. Next Friday a House plans a hearing on the bill. Letter: Say 'no' to waste
Oct 04, 2009
Salt Lake Tribune
As a Utah citizen concerned with our short- and long-term quality of life, I am extremely disappointed with the Utah Radiation Control Board's vote to allow the storage of depleted uranium in Utah ("Ban on hot waste rejected," Tribune, Sept. 23). The sluice gates are opened, and tens of thousands of tons of this material will flow here. Utah, who's got your back?
Oct 02, 2009
Salt Lake Tribune
It is time to talk about depleted uranium. The Radiation Control Board, the folks who are supposed to look out for you, cleared the way in an 8-3 vote last week for EnergySolutions to bring 14,000 tons of the stuff to Utah beginning a few weeks from now. So, what's DU? What's the big deal? Well, if you are only concerned about the next few hundred years, it may not be anything to worry about. However, if you are concerned about longer times, it is a very big deal indeed. |
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