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America's landfills for low-level nuclear waste should be conserved for America's waste, according to a new, bipartisan bill to be introduced next week in the U.S. Senate. The bill targets efforts by Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions to use its Tooele County landfill for contaminated cleanup waste from Italy's defunct nuclear reactors and maybe other foreign waste in the future. And it echoes a bill proposed in the House of Representatives by U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, and two colleagues.
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Radioactive waste resulting from decades of research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory is being prepared for shipment to Utah for long-term storage. Heavily shielded rooms with robotic arms called “hot cells” are now at work sorting and packing the material into 55-gallon drums. Some waste dates to the World War II Manhattan Project.
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The nation's nuclear industry has a problem. And it sees a partial fix in Utah, at the mile-square patch of Tooele County that is operated as a radioactive waste landfill by EnergySolutions Inc. Beginning Tuesday, commercial nuclear facilities in 36 states won't have a disposal for their hottest low-level radioactive waste, known as Class B&C waste. After years of talking about it, South Carolina, starting July 1, will reserve the remaining capacity in its Barnwell County landfill for just three states.
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Under the decommissioning proposal from owner Exelon, the plant would be torn down and shipped in pieces to Utah by EnergySolutions (aka ZionSolutions for the project). Under the plan, the decommissioning funds would be turned over to ZionSolutions to ship the low-level radioactive rubble to its dump in Clive.
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Attention U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission: You've got mail. And lots of it. Mailboxes at the federal agency have been stuffed with thousands of cards, letters and e-mails of late, as John and Jane Utahns sound off on a proposal by EnergySolutions Inc. to import low-level radioactive waste from Italy.
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EnergySolutions has proposed bringing 20,000 tons (1 million cubic feet) of waste from decommissioned nuclear power plants in Italy to Oak Ridge, Tenn. These plants were shut down after the Chernobyl disaster in the 1980s. The U.S. government classifies this waste as "low level." In Europe, it is called low- and intermediate-level waste. This distortion is consistent with the pattern in the U.S. to minimize perceived risk by bureaucratic fiat. As the waste makes its journey over our roads, rails or waterways, many Americans will have the possible misfortune of being in close proximity to the radioactive shipments.
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission expects to receive more than 4,000 comments from individuals and organizations regarding a company’s proposal to import 20,000 tons of nuclear waste from Italy, process and incinerate the material in Tennessee and dispose the remainder in Utah. “The sheer volume of comments indicates there is serious concern about this proposal,” said U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon, who opposes the plan. “When we accept foreign waste, we limit space for our domestic waste, and we also accept the responsibility of monitoring it for generations to come.
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A company's bid for a license to import 20,000 tons of nuclear waste from Italy drew nearly 4,000 public comments by Tuesday's deadline, as environmental groups, lawmakers and Utah's governor seek to derail the plan. EnergySolutions Inc. is seeking to import the low-level radioactive waste through the ports of Charleston, S.C., or New Orleans. If approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, it would be the largest amount of nuclear waste ever allowed into the country.
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Thousands of postcards, letters and e-mails have inundated the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff reviewing a Utah company's request to import radioactive waste from Italy. The tally exceeded 2,500 Tuesday, the final day of a public comment period on plans by Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions Inc. The NRC said it is unclear whether a formal or informal hearing has been requested on the waste import, so it cannot say when a decision is expected on the company's request.
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The Utah Attorney General filed a petition Tuesday to intervene in the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's decision process on whether to allow EnergySolutions to import into Utah waste from old nuclear reactors in Italy. The NRC also received more than 2,500 responses by Tuesday's final day of a public comment period to weigh in on a proposal by EnergySolutions to process Italian radioactive materials at a site in Tennessee and then store up to 1,600 tons of leftover waste at the company's dump in Tooele County.
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The Washington division of URS Corp. will lead a team cleaning up some 53 million gallons of radioactive waste in 177 underground tanks at the Hanford Site in southeastern Washington.
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EnergySolutions Inc. and two partners this week landed a $7.1 billion federal contract to maintain the infamous Hanford Site's 177 storage tanks that are filled with 53 million gallons of residual radioactive materials and chemicals, the company said Thursday.
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A British lord told Parliament this month that a representative from EnergySolutions Inc. had offered to accept radioactive waste from the United Kingdom at the company's disposal facility in Utah. The comments by Lord Charles Patrick Fleeming Jenkin, of Roding, as well as information in a British trade-publication report, have reinforced U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson's fear that more European countries will join Italy in wanting to send their nuclear waste to the United States.
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A recent published report on the possibility of exporting radioactive waste from the UK to Utah is reinforcing Rep. Jim Matheson's fear that more and more European countries, which already includes Italy, will want to pawn their nuclear waste off on the United States.
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WASHINGTON — EnergySolutions would limit international low-level radioactive waste to 5 percent of its storage facility in Tooele County, company chairman R. Steve Creamer told a U.S. House panel Tuesday. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, and other opponents of the company's plan to bring Italian waste to the United States see a threat to the country's storage capacity for its own low-level waste. But Creamer tried to calm those fears by committing to a limit on the amount of foreign waste the company would take.
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WASHINGTON — EnergySolutions would limit international low-level radioactive waste to five percent of its storage facility in Tooele County, company chair R. Steve Creamer told a U.S. House panel this morning. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, and other opponents of the company's plan to bring Italian waste to the United States see a threat to the country's storage capacity for its own low-level waste. But Creamer tried to calm those fears by committing to a limit on the amount of foreign waste the company would take.
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Those who filed a federal whistle-blower lawsuit against EnergySolutions say they hope their fourth attempt at their suit will be successful. U.S. District Judge Bruce Jenkins dismissed the group's last False Claims Act suit but in a ruling last month allowed the three men to modify and refile, to the protest of EnergySolutions attorneys.
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Nuclear waste officials are closely watching a federal court case to see if it could allow for burial of foreign radioactive garbage at South Carolina's atomic refuse dump in Barnwell County. Energy Solutions Inc., which operates landfills in South Carolina and Utah, insists it won't send Italian nuclear waste to the 37-year-old landfill west of Barnwell under a company plan to import waste to the United States. But the company has challenged eight Western states in their attempt to block disposal of the foreign waste in Utah.
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Those who filed a federal whistle-blower lawsuit against Energy Solutions say they hope their fourth attempt at their suit will be successful. U.S. District Judge Bruce Jenkins dismissed the group's last False Claims Act suit, but in a ruling last month allowed the former employees to modify and re-file, to the protest of Energy Solutions attorneys.
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Steve Creamer wants to talk about saving the world. The CEO of EnergySolutions, a nuclear power cleanup and disposal company, says it's his personal mission to help usher in the "nuclear renaissance," an era he says is coming on the heels of the carbon emission dark ages. Creamer has spent the past three years amassing a near monopoly on low-level radioactive waste (LLRW) management in the U.S.
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