Help keep foreign nuclear waste out of Utah

Sign this petition to urge Utah Senators Orrin Hatch and Bob Bennett to stand up for Utah and support a ban on foreign nuclear waste disposal in the U.S.

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Dear Senators Hatch and Bennett,

Please co-sponsor S.232, which would ban the disposal of foreign radioactive waste in the United States. EnergySolutions' plan to import Italian nuclear waste into the U.S. and ultimately Utah, threatens to set a dangerous precedent for our state to become the world's nuclear dumping ground. Utah is already burdened with being the dumpsite for 98% of our country's commercial nuclear waste. We should not take on the additional health and safety risks from nuclear garbage that countries don't want. Present Governor Gary Herbert, former Governor Huntsman, the Utah Radiation Control Board, Rep. Chaffetz and Rep. Matheson are all opposed to EnergySolutions' plan and are working to represent Utah's concerns; but, the rest of Utah's Congressional Delegation has yet to speak out. Please co-sponsor S232, which is a parallel bill to Rep. Barton Gordon's HR 515. We need your leadership in the Senate to make sure Utah can keep its doors closed to foreign nuclear waste and preserve the limited disposal space in this country for our own nuclear waste.

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