Posted on 04/23/2008 1:58:42 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
SALT LAKE CITY -- Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman says he is reversing his stance and will block the shipment of Italian nuclear waste to a desert dump site in his state.
Huntsman initially said the federal government should decide where to dispose such foreign waste.
But he says Wednesday he's changed his mind because the federal government has been slow to adopt a policy to block foreign radioactive waste. He also says that space for even domestic waste is limited.
A company called EnergySolutions has asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for permission to store about 1,600 tons of low-level waste from Italy at a dump some 70 miles west of Salt Lake City.
This is the first I’ve heard of this. So we’re becoming the landfill for Europe?
Yea when the crap did we start taking other nation’s waste?
Reminds me of the time New York City wanted to bury their human waste in New Mexico. My thought is you make it in your State, you bury it in your State. The same goes for for nuclear waste.
Since when do we take FOREIGN waste!!!!!!!!!!!!
I say what the hell, especially since the wind is pretty much always out of the west here in SLC. /sarc
When the dollar started to become as valuable as the Peso.
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