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Fri Oct 24

• Low-level nuclear waste, high-level problems - Carlsbad Current-Argus: Most of the nation has nowhere to send its low-level nuclear waste. It can't stop producing this waste. It's necessary for diagnosing and treating cancer and other diseases, and for research. But because there is no-where to send the waste, it piles up in hospitals, other medical facilities and research centers. It's an illustration of our nation's inability to deal realistically with nuclear issues. Most of this waste used to be sent to South Carolina to the Barnwell Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal Facility. It was the first such facility in the country when it began receiving radioactive waste in 1971. It is just one of three in the nation today. On July 1, a new policy took effect: The Barnwell facility takes waste only from South Carolina, Connecticut and New Jersey.
• 8-state panel to take on EnergySolution s' loophole - Salt Lake Tribune: Nuclear regulators from eight states, including Utah, meet today to look for a way to close a loophole that has allowed low-level radioactive waste from foreign nations to be buried in U.S. landfills. The Northwest Interstate Compact on Radioactive Waste wants to address the loophole in Tennessee regulations that allows such waste to be imported to the United States. EnergySolution s Inc., a Salt Lake City nuclear-waste company, has raised awareness about foreign waste in the past year, with a request to import waste from Italy's decommissioned nuclear power plants, process it at the company's Tennessee plant and dispose of a small portion of it in the company's Tooele County specialized landfill.
• Deseret News | Utah officials say Italy's N-waste bid subject to compact: State officials contend in federal-court documents filed Tuesday that the Northwest Interstate Compact on Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management has authority over EnergySolution s Inc.'s Clive facility in Tooele County, where the company wants to store low-level nuclear waste from Italy. In a motion for summary judgment filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City, Utah assistant attorney general Fred Nelson said the Northwest Compact has had authority over the Clive facility since 1991, when Envirocare, which later became EnergySolution s, asked the compact to store low-level radioactive waste. Since that time, the compact has responded to similar requests based on language in a 1985 federal act that created the compact.

Tue Sep 30

• Dealing with nuclear waste | Spartanburg Herald-Journal: Most of the nation has nowhere to send its low-level nuclear waste. It can't stop producing this waste. It's necessary for diagnosing and treating cancer and other diseases and for research. But because there is nowhere to send the waste, it piles up in hospitals, other medical facilities and research centers.

Tue Sep 9

• At a nuclear waste industry meeting, officials say the regional compact needs revamp - Salt Lake Tribune: Utah has long been the safety valve for states without disposal for radiation-tain ted waste. Railroad cars hauled all but 5 percent of the nation's low-level radioactive waste last year to the EnergySolution s Inc. disposal site in Tooele County. But hospitals, universities and nuclear plants that generate low-level waste are beginning to worry about the long-term outlook for a small fraction of the waste they generate, material that has been outlawed in Utah because it is too radiologically hot.

Sat Jul 19

• Standoff over waste from Italy to drag on - Salt Lake Tribune: It might be another year before a judge decides who has the final say on importing foreign radioactive waste to Utah. EnergySolution s Inc. requested the federal court ruling in hopes of securing the right to import low-level nuclear waste from Italy a

Fri Jul 18

• Matheson pushes alternative Yucca Mountain nuke waste shipment plan - Salt Lake Tribune: Dumping the nation's nuclear waste in the Nevada desert could cost billions more and take even longer than previously anticipated. But the plan to open Yucca by 2020 - three years later than previously estimated - hinges on the Nuclear Regulatory Comm
• Matheson introduces bill amending Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 | thespectrum.co m | The Spectrum: U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, along with the Utah and Nevada Congressional delegations, has introduced a bill ?HR 4062?that amends the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, according to a press release from Matheson' s office today. Advertisement Matheson' s

Mon Jul 14

• Lone Star Sierra Club Sues to Void Uranium Waste License: The Sierra Club has filed suit in state district court to overturn a decision by the state's environmental regulatory agency to grant a license for disposal of thousands of cubic feet of highly radioactive uranium waste material in far western Andrews Cou

Fri May 30

• Radioactive waste facility gets green light (The Daily Yomiuri): A bill to revise the Japan Atomic Energy Agency Law to allow the construction of a site to dispose of low-level radioactive waste passed the House of Councillors on Wednesday. The revised law designates the agency as a body responsible for constructing a

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