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A House subcommittee endorsed Tuesday a bill to ban importing foreign, low-level radioactive waste — which would block an EnergySolutions proposal to import 20,000 tons of it from Italy, process it in Tennessee and dump it in Utah's western... Full Article at Deseret News
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Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - A House panel on Tuesday voted to block the importation of foreign nuclear waste into the United States in response to a Salt Lake City company's plan to bury low-level radioactive waste from Italy at a site in... Full Article at ABC4.com (KTVX)
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A House panel has voted to block the importation of foreign nuclear waste into the United States in response to a Salt Lake City company's plan to bury low-level radioactive waste from Italy in Utah. Full Article at WBIR
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WASHINGTON Today, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committees Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment unanimously approved Congressman Bart Gordons bipartisan legislation to ban the importation of foreign-generated radioactive waste for disposal... Full Article at Rutherford Daily News Journal
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its disposal space for domestic waste. EnergySolutions' facility in the western Utah desert is the only one currently available to 36 states, although an NRC official testified last year that capacity there isn't a short-term problem. Utah Gov. Full Article at Salt Lake Tribune
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We are the only nation in the world that imports and disposes other countries' low-level radioactive waste. Unless we act, the United States is destined to become the world's dumping ground ... Tuesday's hearing will provide another opportunity to shed light on the importance of this issue.
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It's a horrible idea to consider opening up Utah to the entire world's radioactive garbage in exchange for a share of what the company says are the profits ... No other country on Earth takes another country's nuclear waste and I am determined that the U.S. won't be the exception.
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There is no difference between internationally generated material and domestically generated material ... There is no health or safety issue and no capacity issue, therefore we do not believe that Congress needs to change the law.
SOURCE: Salt Lake Tribune
