Nuke waste: Foreign waste already finds its way to Utah

[Robbien]

Source: Salt Lake Tribune

For months, EnergySolutions Inc. has been fighting for permission to bring foreign radioactive waste to its Tooele County landfill.

Turns out, the Salt Lake City-based nuclear-waste operation has been doing so for eight years, bypassing approval of regional regulators and running counter to past company promises. EnergySolutions Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Steve Creamer told a congressional subcommittee in May that waste shipments from Taiwan, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Canada and Mexico have come to Tooele County.

Creamer explained that once this contaminated waste goes through the company's treatment facility in Tennessee, it no longer is considered foreign waste - thanks to a change in that state's regulations two years ago.

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If so, regulators counter, those overseas shipments via Tennessee came without a nod from the Northwest Compact, which
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includes Utah and seven other states.

Read more: http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_10753978

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The U S of A, the dumping ground of the world.

[bkkyosemite]

1. Wonder where the 7 other states are? Once it goes through their facility it is no longer considered

foreign. Give me a break. We don't need anymore waste from elsewhere we are already a time bomb waiting to happen with our own waste.

[Robbien]

2. Sorry, bad editing skills on my part

please ignore

[dgibby]

5. You can bet your ass Az isn't one of them!

[sandnsea]

6. Here

http://www.energysolutions.com/?id=OTQz#eu

[4lbs]

3. Any chance Sarah Palin can visit that landfill to beef up her "foreign" and "energy" experience?

n/t

[psychmommy]

4. the us has become new jersey.

i am from nj so i can make fun. now we know what the foreign countries are doing with their waste. this should boost the argument for nuclear energy. not!

[Ian David]

7. Finally! Something Utah is actually good for! n/t