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Current NewsNarrow your search by visiting an issue-specific news page, listed in the navigation at left. 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. Please, ads are not news
Jul 09, 2010
Salt Lake Tribune
When news organizations become opinion agents and corporations get free-speech rights like citizens and “reality shows” become our lens on life, we must be exceedingly diligent not to be duped. Insiders detail state's issue with energy study
Jul 05, 2010
KSL
SALT LAKE CITY -- A dispute over the value of a human life was a major factor that helped derail a controversial study on Utah power plants. Utah officials spent $200,000 in federal and state funds to have the study done. But when it was finished a few months ago, they sidetracked it and refused to vouch for it -- after it ran into a wall of opposition from industry. The study blames Utah power plants for 202 premature deaths each year and for health and water costs up to $2 billion annually. 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. Green River nuclear plant announces major funding source
Jul 01, 2010
Salt Lake Tribune
The company behind plans for Utah’s first nuclear power plant, Salt Lake City-based Blue Castle Holdings Inc., has secured an agreement for $30 million in private equity financing from the New York-based LeadDog Capital LP. The money would come over three years to help develop the reactors to potentially generate 4,500 megawatts of power at a new, Emery County industrial park at Green River. In exchange, LeadDog will receive newly issued common stock from the Utah company. |
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