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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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A company owned in part by a former Utah state legislator expressed interest in building the state’s first nuclear power plant, and one possible site lies just 100 miles west of Grand Junction. Any concerns, environmental, economical or otherwise, should be decades away, said specialists in nuclear power familiar with the Utah proposal. The company, Transition Power Development, has contracted to lease enough water to supply a nuclear power plant large enough to power 4 million homes. Transition Power sent a letter of interest to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission earlier this year regarding what it called the Blue Castle Project. According to Utah media reports, the site for the plant would be near Green River, Utah.
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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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They bickered about economics, energy and the environment, but Friday's debate between Republican Congressman Rob Bishop and Democratic challenger Morgan Bowen got most heated when the two talked about money. Not the billions spent bailing out failing financial institutions during the current market meltdown or the thousands more Utahns shelled out this year to gas up their cars or heat their homes.
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Federal officials have approved the reopening and combining of two reclaimed underground uranium mines on the Utah-Colorado line. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management in Moab and Grand Junction, Colo., announced Friday that Lakewood, Colo.-based Energy Fuels Resources would combine the Urantah Decline and Packrat Mine into an operation called the Whirlwind Mine. Earlier the agency released an environmental assessment that showed the mine would have no significant impact. The Energy Fuels plan allows for up to 200 tons per day of uranium production, which would yield a quarter-ton annually of U308 to be processed to yellow cake in Blanding in southeastern Utah's, home to the nation's only conventional uranium mill. Energy Fuels is a Toronto-based uranium and vanadium mineral-development company that claims more than 40,000 acres of highly prospective uranium and vanadium property located in Utah, Colorado and Arizona. Uranium prices on the spot market currently are about $65 per pound, down from about $90 in December
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With Congress about to jet out of town and a pile of more pressing legislation awaiting action, several measures that would directly affect Utah -- from mining safety law reform to a foreign nuclear waste ban to a federal crackdown on polygamy -- are being punted to next year. Congress is set to adjourn Sept. 26, and it's unclear whether lawmakers will return after the November election to tackle myriad items still left on the docket. What is clear, though, is that some legislation will remain stuck in committee.
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nergySolutions and Union Pacific Railroad struck an agreement Monday for rail services and upgrades to an existing line that will support moving about 16 million tons of uranium-mill tailings over the next 20 years away from their current location near the Colorado River and Moab. The Department of Energy announced Tuesday that the two sides signed a memorandum of understanding to ready a rail line between the tailings pile and the new 250-acre disposal site at Crescent Junction 30 miles away in time to start moving the waste next spring.
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Utah has long been the safety valve for states without disposal for radiation-tainted waste. Railroad cars hauled all but 5 percent of the nation's low-level radioactive waste last year to the EnergySolutions Inc. disposal site in Tooele County. But hospitals, universities and nuclear plants that generate low-level waste are beginning to worry about the long-term outlook for a small fraction of the waste they generate, material that has been outlawed in Utah because it is too radiologically hot.
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When some people refer to Utah as a "national treasure," it's not for the state's picturesque deserts or breathtaking mountains but because of a mile-square disposal site in Tooele County for much of the nation's radioactive waste. Without it, rail cars of low-level radioactive waste would have nowhere to go. That kind of notoriety is making the Utah public and policymakers uneasy, a state regulator said Wednesday.
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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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The final environmental assessment for the Whirlwind uranium mine near Gateway is expected to be signed early this week, said an official from the Bureau of Land Management. “We are just on the verge of releasing that final EA,” said Dave Lehman of the BLM.
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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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Proposals for a uranium mill and nuclear power plant near Green River, Emery County, are raising more and more eyebrows. A group that says it seeks to protect Utahns from nuclear and toxic waste wants to know where high-level radioactive waste will go if the state allows a nuclear power plant to be built in an industrial park on state trust land near Green River.
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HEAL has established itself as a leader in the struggle to make Utah's environment healthy and safe for all. We have grown from a small group of six people meeting around a table to the point that we now have thousands of supporters, hundreds of members, dozens of core volunteers, and five staff. Our successful campaign to get the importation of hotter radioactive wastes banned by a reluctant state legislature is proof that when citizens insist on open, inclusive, and accountable governance, they can be heard and heeded.
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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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Power provider Entergy Corp. is advancing its plans to spin off nuclear plants that generate free-market electricity, a deal that may be a boon for shareholders but a potential burden for taxpayers, according to critics, particularly in the Northeast. If approved by regulators, Enexus Energy Corp., to be based in Jackson, Miss., will become a separate, publicly traded company in the next several months. Stockholders of New Orleans-based Entergy would receive Enexus shares on a pro-rata basis. The exact number has not been determined. But there is concern over debts of as much as $4.5 billion that the new company would take on, including up to $3.5 billion paid to Entergy for the plants and other assets.
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Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions saw profits double in the second quarter of 2008. Net income was $12.6 million, or 14 cents per diluted share, for the quarter ending June 30, 2008. Year-ago net income was $6 million. Thanks largely to the acquisition in June 2007 of the British Reactor Sites Management Co., revenues at the nuclear energy service company nearly tripled to $460 million for the quarter. Same-period revenues for last year were $162 million, the company reported Monday.
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Still dealing with the fallout of being a repository for contaminated sand from Kuwait, Idaho is reportedly slated to be the dumping ground for literal fallout: radioactive remnants from a World War II-era Navy shipyard, according to a San Francisco alternative newsweekly. “Currently, the Navy is proposing to excavate soil from IR-07 and IR-18, including known mercury and methane spots, and ship it to dumps in Idaho and Utah,” said the San Francisco Bay Guardian, in a July 16 story.
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