so now we can take in other countrie's nuke waste. isn't that nice?

[ensho]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iiYK72FsWLTHyHNqTsiRWTZ1Vx7AD97HQKBO0


The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says it doesn't have the authority to prevent foreign radioactive waste from being imported into the United States.

The NRC wrote in an April 9 letter to Reps. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, and Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., that the Atomic Energy Act doesn't distinguish between domestic and foreign waste. The NRC says that as long as the material can be imported safely and someone is willing to accept it, the commission can't keep the waste out.

Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions' is seeking a license to import up to 20,000 tons of low-level radioactive waste from Italy's shuttered nuclear power program. After processing in Tennessee, about 1,600 tons would be disposed of in the western Utah desert.

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One of the company's former lobbyists is U.S. Rep, Rob Bishop, R-Utah. Bishop's district includes the EnergySolutions' facility. He has said a national policy on foreign waste isn't needed and that states should decide whether to allow foreign waste.
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we don't know what in hell to do with our own growing nuke waste and we're taking in others!

but, of course, money is involved.


"disposed of in the western Utah desert." surely that is someone's backyard?

[luvspeas]

1. People! Please SPELLCHECK!!

After all of those misspelled teabagger signs, I'm just feeling quite touchy. We don't want to look like morans.

[Oregone]

2. Strange. Doesn't Summers want us to dump it on poor black Africans.

This is unexpected

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Anything for money! Hope the Utah desert is privately owned by them.