Posted on 05/05/2009 6:37:40 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
SALT LAKE CITY – Despite having their own radioactive waste dump, three states have shipped millions of cubic feet of waste across the country this decade to a private Utah facility that is the only one available to 36 other states, according to an Associated Press analysis of U.S. Department of Energy records.
The shipments are stoking concerns that waste from Connecticut, New Jersey and South Carolina is taking up needed space in Utah, unnecessarily creating potential shipping hazards and undermining the government's intent for states to dispose of their own waste on a regional basis.
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Thank You econuts, for blocking attempts to build large scale storage facilities. now go make some more candles.
Here in Michigan we take Canadian trash so they can complain about how badly we pollute.
We not just change Carter’s limitation on recharging this fuel and end the silliness?
LOL
Could be worse
Private Fuel Storage Targets High-Level Radioactive Waste Dump at Skull Valley Goshute Indian Reservation, Utah
http://www.nirs.org/radwaste/scullvalley/skullvalley.htm
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