Tim Vollmann contends that the Goshute Tribe has the right to store spent nuclear fuel on tribal property (Opinion, Aug. 28). I do not contest his legal assertions. The fact that it may be legal, however, does not necessarily make it a good idea.
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private fuel storage NewsNarrow your search by visiting an issue-specific news page, listed in the navigation at left. Panel backs new storage site for nuclear waste, but doesn’t say where
May 13, 2011
Associated Press
WASHINGTON • A presidential commission looking for safe ways to dispose of the nation’s nuclear waste said Friday it is likely to recommend building one or more storage sites to replace a long-planned nuclear waste dump in Nevada. The 15-member commission, created by President Barack Obama, did not identify any proposed site for nuclear storage. Nor did commission members agree on whether there should be one or several sites for a nuclear dump, where waste would be stored for up to 100 years. No appeal
Sep 30, 2010
Salt Lake Tribune
Four years ago, Utahns thought they had driven a stake through the heart of a scheme to store 44,000 tons of highly radioactive spent nuclear reactor fuel in steel casks on a parking lot in Skull Valley. In July, however, a federal court revived the project, ruling that the Department of the Interior must reconsider its decisions denying a right of way and a lease. Now, Interior has compounded that setback to Utah’s interests by declining to appeal the court’s decision. Interior won’t fight ruling on nuclear site
Sep 28, 2010
Salt Lake Tribune
The federal government has decided not to fight a court ruling that might allow the Skull Valley Goshute Indians to revive their plans to store reactor waste on their Tooele County reservation. Two months ago, U.S. District Judge David M. Ebel threw out a pair of U.S. Interior Department decisions that, in effect, led many Utahns to believe that the storage site plans were dead four years ago. Could high level nuclear waste be on it's way to Utah?
Aug 22, 2010
ABC4
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