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Uranium and Lead Kuwaiti's Sand Heads for Idaho
Over the past two weeks, for the first time, news was shared in Kuwait that sand that has been contaminated since the 1991 U.S. Coalition War in Kuwait has now been shipped to U.S. soil and is currently heading to Idaho. The sand’s contamination resulted from U.S. military vehicles and munitions combining in a combustive accident at the end of that war.
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Waste panel votes to ban EnergySolutions' import of Italian N-waste - Salt Lake Tribune
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.
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San Juan Record - Uranium once again being milled in San Juan County
Well, it has been a long, expensive, painful wait – about half a lifetime for many of us in southeast Utah. But on April 30, 2008, the Dennison Mill on White Mesa (six miles south of Blanding) officially began milling uranium ore. It is the first time that has happened in the United States in decades.
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EnergySolutions sues to stop state's bid to block Italian nuke waste - Salt Lake Tribune
EnergySolutions has gone to court to protect its plan to import low-level nuclear waste from Italy. The Salt Lake City nuclear waste services company filed a lawsuit Monday asking the U.S. District Court in Utah to rule that a regional organization, the Northwest Interstate Compact on Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management, has no authority over its Utah disposal site. At a meeting planned for Thursday in Boise, Idaho, the eight member states of the compact are to consider whether to give explicit approval for the importation of foreign waste to the EnergySolutions disposal facility in Tooele County.
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Deseret News | Firm pitches idea for a uranium mill
Mancos Resources Inc. presented the Utah Radiation Control Board in its meeting Friday with a uranium mill proposal for an "isolated" location six miles northwest of the Green River area in Emery County. Mancos is owned by Canadian-based Bluerock Resources Ltd., which has one operating mine, one nearing production and twelve "uranium properties" in Utah and Colorado. Its proposal, which was an information-only item for the board, is to mine 1,200 tons per day at a "conventional" uranium mill, using a wet crushing and solvent extraction technique.
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Italy's waste is called too hot for Utah - Salt Lake Tribune
Radioactive waste that Italy wants buried in Utah might be too hot to handle here. Critics looking at technical aspects of EnergySolutions' plans to import 20,000 tons of cleanup waste from Italy's nuclear reactors say state and federal regulators need more information before signing off on the Salt Lake City company's proposal. The company's Italy waste plans have already come under fire on policy grounds, with Republican Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. promising to use the state's vote on a regional waste panel to stop future foreign waste imports and Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson of Utah seeking federal legislation to do the same.
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Gov. vows to halt EnergySolutions' importation of Italian nuke waste - Salt Lake Tribune
Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. on Wednesday vaulted to the front lines of a national fight against foreign nuclear waste. Utah has been the main battleground since Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions applied for a license last fall to dispose of the radioactive discards from Italy's dismantled reactors. The Republican governor has said for months that a waste-limiting agreement he signed with the company last year blocked him from interfering with its plan to bury the Italian waste at its Tooele County disposal site.
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Huntsman seeks to block Italian waste - Salt Lake Tribune
Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. today jumped into the national fight against disposing foreign nuclear waste in Utah. "As I have always emphatically declared, Utah should not be the world's dumping ground," Huntsman said in a news release. "Our country has limited space to store even domestic waste and it would be most appropriate to have a federal policy against the importation of foreign nuclear waste," he added. "However, as the federal government is slow to adopt such a policy, Utah will lead the way."
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Uranium bonfire: Air Force incinerated radioactive waste - Salt Lake Tribune
Officials at Hill Air Force Base inadvertently orchestrated a uranium bonfire in a waste incinerator at Layton. Over the past eight months, Hill sent a nine-ton batch of obsolete military hardware to the burn plant, unaware that the items contained "trace" amounts of depleted uranium. And when you're burning nine tons of waste, "trace" amounts add up. All told, five pounds of uranium went up in smoke. The Weapons System Program Office at Hill is at fault. The documents spelling out the contents of the materials to be burned, according to a Hill press release, "were not readily accessible." So, instead of taking the time to track down the paperwork, officials callously threw it on the fire, and Utahns be damned.
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Importing nuclear waste is not in America's best interest | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean
Sixteen years ago, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was warned that if it allowed nuclear waste to be imported into the United States, this country could turn into the world's nuclear dumping ground. That warning went unheeded, and now, if the Congress doesn't act, it could prove true. In 1992, the Environmental Coalition on Nuclear Powers told the NRC that its proposed rule to license imports of low-level radioactive waste into the United States would allow "an essentially unrestricted flow … of radioactive wastes generated abroad into this country for 'disposal,' thereby turning our nation into an unlimited dumping ground for radioactive wastes produced worldwide."
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Italian nuclear waste has Utah, NRC fingerpointing at each other - Salt Lake Tribune
Plans to bury radioactive waste from Italy in Utah's West Desert have become a game of hot potato between federal regulators and the state government. Both Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. nor the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission deny they have the authority to stop the Italy waste. While they point fingers at one another, saying only the other has the power to settle the issue, the plan has attracted an unprecedented interest among Americans, and even a few Europeans.
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The Associated Press: Utah nuclear waste company ramps up campaign contributions
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Daily News Journal - Gordon bill would ban foreign-generated nuclear waste
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