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Current NewsNarrow your search by visiting an issue-specific news page, listed in the navigation at left. EnergySolutions dumps Italian waste bid for Utah
Jul 15, 2010
Salt Lake Tribune
EnergySolutions Inc. announced Wednesday it is dropping plans to import significant quantities of foreign radioactive waste for disposal in Utah. The decision turns the heat down on a three-year controversy in Utah and beyond that has sizzled since the company asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to allow 20,000 tons of cleanupwaste from Italy’s defunct nuclear program to be shipped to the United States, some 1,600 tons of it for burial in Utah. EnergySolutions abandons plan to import Italian nuclear waste to Utah
Jul 15, 2010
Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — Nuclear waste from Italy — or any other foreign country — won't be coming to Utah, EnergySolutions announced Wednesday. Instead, the company intends to profit from consulting with Italy and other nations about storing their low-level radioactive waste within their own borders. EnergySolutions had sought to import up to 20,000 tons of low-level waste from Italy that would have been disposed of at its Tooele County facility after processing at a company operation in Tennessee. Tasty metaphors aside, board tackles blended hot waste
Jul 14, 2010
Salt Lake Tribune
Sweet-shop metaphors were being tossed around like ammunition in a food fight Tuesday at a meeting of the state Radiation Control Board. Some likened the blending of low-level radioactive waste to concocting a sugar cookie, others to baking a layer cake. But board members preferred less-creative analogies when considering the serious issue of various types of nuclear- reactor rubbish that EnergySolutions and others want to stir together to be buried forever at the company’s disposal site in Utah. EnergySolutions says blended waste uniform, like sugar cookie
Jul 14, 2010
Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — Is it akin to a chocolate chip cookie, a pot of Earl Grey tea or a sugar cookie? On the issue of radioactive "waste blending," members of the Utah Radiation Control Board were presented Tuesday with a smorgasbord of food analogies to help them as they grapple with the question of imposing stricter disposal guidelines on the material. Tasty metaphors aside, board tackles blended hot waste
Jul 14, 2010
Salt Lake Tribune
The Salt Lake Tribune Updated Jul 13, 2010 11:32PM But board members preferred less-creative analogies when considering the serious issue of various types of nuclear- reactor rubbish that EnergySolutions and others want to stir together to be buried forever at the company’s disposal site in Utah. |
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