[CPEO-MEF] RADIATION, DISPOSAL: Utah and depleted uranium

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Public largely critical of depleted uranium disposal
Safety - State has already borne a heavy burden from the nuclear 
industry, one Utahn says.

By Judy Fahys
Salt Lake Tribune
January 26, 2010
	

Utah's depleted uranium regulations should ensure no harm will come to 
the public or the environment as long as the waste remains dangerous -- 
and that, said some Utahns on Tuesday, means the radioactive waste does 
not belong in a shallow disposal site in western Utah.

"What disturbs me is that this company thinks we are so dumb in this 
state that we don't understand what is going on," testified Jeri Roos, 
at the Utah Division of Radiation Control's public hearing on a proposed 
regulation for depleted uranium.

...

EnergySolutions says it already has buried about 49,000 tons of depleted 
uranium at its mile-square disposal site 80 miles west of Salt Lake 
City. And one of three controversial shipments (totaling another 11,000 
tons) awaits disposal from the government cleanup of the Savannah River 
atomic-bomb site in South Carolina.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14275000

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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