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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has delayed a decision on whether to allow EnergySolutions Inc. to import the largest-ever amount of nuclear waste into the U.S. The NRC ruled Monday that it will wait until a federal court decides whether an interstate compact can block disposal of the waste in Utah.
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October. Halloween. Ghosts and goblins. Just for the fun of it, we give ourselves a scare. But this October has the potential for something truly frightening. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission may decide this month if Utah will be the final resting place for Italy's low-level radioactive waste. That would be a bad thing for the nation, and for Utah in particular. Our No. 1 industry, tourism, would suffer. So would economic development. "World's Nuclear Waste Dumping Ground." It's not the kind of thing you put on a sign at the state border, or on chamber of commerce brochures. It's not the kind of reputation you want to have.
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Two congressmen argue in a letter sent Wednesday that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacks power to grant a license for Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions to import 20,000 tons of Italian low-level radioactive waste into the United States. Saying they understand a decision may be granted soon on EnergySolutions' request, Reps. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, and Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., ask the NRC to reject the application to bring the waste to American shores because there is no site to store it. "The NRC has no authority to import waste when there is not a facility to ultimately dispose of it," Matheson and Gordon wrote.
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Two congressman argue in a letter sent Wednesday that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission lacks power to grant a license for Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions to import 20,000 tons of Italian low-level radioactive waste into the United States. Saying they understand a decision may be granted soon on EnergySolutions' request, Reps. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, and Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., ask the NRC to reject the application to bring the waste to American shores because there is no site to store it.
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A Utah regulator advised nuclear waste producers that his state might not be willing any longer to solve their many disposal problems. Bill Sinclair, deputy director of Utah's Department of Environmental Quality, noted that many around the nation rely on EnergySolutions Inc.'s disposal site for low-level radioactive waste in Tooele County. And it is being eyed as a solution for even more kinds of waste from more places, including international cleanups, he told nuclear waste handlers and regulators today at the RadWaste Summit in Las Vegas. But Utah leaders and the public are growing wary of being a known as a "national treasure" because of the EnergySolutions site.
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Utah thrust. EnergySolutions parried. And the battle may continue in a federal courtroom. If a judge is willing to add Utah as a defendant, the state will wisely step into the ring in a lawsuit filed by EnergySolutions, which is challenging the authority of the Northwest Interstate Compact on Low-level Radioactive Waste to ban foreign radioactive waste from the company's dump in Utah.
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Utah has agreed to become a defendant in a federal lawsuit over whether EnergySolutions Inc. can import foreign radioactive waste for disposal here. The Salt Lake City-based nuclear waste disposal firm wants to import 20,000 tons of low-level waste from Italy's shuttered nuclear program for processing in Tennessee and disposal in Utah. After processing, about 1,600 tons would be disposed at its Clive, Utah site. The company's application is currently pending before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, which asked for input from the Northwest Interstate Compact on Low-level Radioactive Waste, of which Utah is a member.
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The state has been asked to join the federal court fight over a Salt Lake City company's proposal to import foreign radioactive waste. Utah has agreed to become a defendant in a case brought by EnergySolutions Inc. against a regional organization that oversees low-level radioactive waste, according to papers filed this week in federal court.
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U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon, the Democrat from Tennessee, said he is gaining support for legislation that would bar most imports of nuclear waste into the United States, but he said it likely will have to wait until the next session of Congress. The bill is aimed at keeping EnergySolutions from bringing tons of low-level radioactive waste from Italy and processing it at the company's Oak Ridge facilities -- before disposing of the remains in Utah.
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The Russian state company on nuclear energy Rosatom this week signed an agreement with the Italian Ministry of Economic Development over the construction of a vessel for transports of spent nuclear fuel from bases on the Kola Peninsula.
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U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander wants to ban processing and disposal of some foreign nuclear waste. The Tennessee Republican and Sen. Benjamin Cardin, D-Md., said Tuesday they will introduce legislation barring the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from allowing Utah-based EnergySolutions Inc. from importing 20,000 tons of nuclear waste from Italy for processing in Oak Ridge and disposal in Clive, Utah.
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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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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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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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The state of Utah wants federal regulators to turn away radioactive waste from Italy. On Tuesday, it asked the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to reject a Utah company's request to import the foreign waste as the agency began tallying nearly 4,000 postcards, letters and e-mails on the request. It was the final day for public comment on plans by Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions Inc. to ship 20,000 tons of low-level radioactive waste from Italy, recycle most of it in Tennessee and bury the remaining 1,600 tons in Utah.
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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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(AGI) - Rome, June 6 - Italy has offered ample reassurance and guarantees to Germany and Hamburg authorities that all trains loaded with garbage departing from the Campania region will be checked, including by special fire department units. Such is the news on the waste emergency. Italian reassurances follow the discovery of traces of radioactivity in Hamburg in a load of waste material arriving from the Campania region. Next week some eight trains should leave Italy and head for waste disposal plants in Germany. Some voices claim that radioactive traces contained in waste delivered to Germany are due to the presence of "131 iodine" used in scintigraphy, a nuclear medicine examination that is used to diagnose bone tumours and thyroid cancer.
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MILAN (Reuters) - Italy should keep its ban on nuclear power and should boost solar and wind energy instead to resolve its energy supply problems, Italian environmentalists said on Thursday as nuclear revival debate heated up.
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Italy says it is to restart its nuclear energy programme, more than 20 years after it was scrapped by referendum in the wake of the Chernobyl disaster.
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