Waste panel votes to ban EnergySolutions' import of Italian N-waste

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BOISE, Idaho - Eight Western states on Thursday derailed EnergySolutions' plans to import nuclear cleanup waste from Italy and bury some of it at the company's Utah landfill.

Members of the Northwest Compact on Low-level Radioactive Waste voted unanimously here to tighten the compact's contract with the Salt Lake City nuclear waste company to make it clear that foreign waste is not permitted. They also closed a loophole that has allowed past shipments of foreign waste to be buried in Utah after being processed at the company's Tennessee processing plant.

The move comes as the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is considering the company's request to import 20,000 tons of Italian waste, process it at a plant near Oak Ridge, Tenn., sell the recovered metal for shielding and dispose of 1,600 tons of waste at the mile-square landfill in Tooele County, about 80 miles west of Salt Lake City.

Salt Lake Tribune

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1. but we are dump'n that shit cheap as Depleted Uuranium in Iraq, 2000 tons.. of WMD

we are even making bombs out of it..

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2. True, isn't it a bit third worldish to allow importing of waste?