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Sep 16, 2011
Salt Lake Tribune
The United States has an unsolved nuclear waste problem. It has no place to dispose of highly radioactive waste from the military and the reactors of electric utilities. A federal blue-ribbon commission is studying this problem. Utah’s job must be to assure that the commission does not turn a national problem into Utah’s problem. To be blunt, Utah must continue to fight any effort to store or dispose of high-level radioactive nuclear waste in this state. Don’t dump nuclear waste on us, Westerners say
Sep 14, 2011
Salt Lake Tribune
Denver • The West has a strong message for anyone looking its way to solve the nation’s nuclear waste problem. No more dumping on us. Unless, of course, it’s in a community that has welcomed the waste after a thorough scientific and public vetting. Could search for nuclear-waste site revive Skull Valley plan?
Sep 12, 2011
Salt Lake Tribune
Presidential advisers think it would be a good idea for the federal government to create a kind of long-term parking lot for the nation’s growing stockpile of nuclear waste from reactors and the military. For Utahns, the suggestion is sure to sound eerily familiar, given the history with the proposed Skull Valley waste site. Matheson fears high-level N-waste could head to Utah
Aug 18, 2011
Salt Lake Tribune
By Thomas Burr The Salt Lake Tribune Published: August 17, 2011 11:11PM Updated: August 17, 2011 11:51PM Washington • The plan to store thousands of tons of nuclear waste in Utah’s west desert could again surface after a federal panel suggested finding a temporary home for the spent fuel now piling up at reactors across the country. Wasted time
Aug 03, 2011
Salt Lake Tribune
A panel of Washington wise men has reached the blindingly obvious conclusion that the nation has failed in its responsibilities to come up with ways, and places, to store or dispose of the growing stream of high-level waste from civilian nuclear power facilities. But the same panel warns against any process that would be perceived as forcing such an installation on any community that is not ready to embrace the effort. |
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