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Nuclear waste bound for U.S. | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean

Nuclear waste bound for U.S. Tennessean.com 2 Feb 09 c: U.S. should just say no to imported hazard

For a nation that still hasn’t found a sure-fire way of storing its own nuclear waste without worry, it certainly shouldn’t be taking waste from other nations.

U.S. Rep. Bart Gordon, a Democrat, and Sen. Lamar Alexander, a Republican, have teamed on legislation that would ban foreign nuclear waste. The legislation follows efforts by a Utah company, EnergySolutions, to import up to 20,000 tons of nuclear waste from Italy that would go through ports at Charleston, S.C., or New Orleans, and through Tennessee on its way to the EnergySolutions site in Utah………………….. for each load that goes through a community, there could be a problem. Alexander says he agrees with Gordon that the U.S. shouldn’t become “the world’s nuclear garbage dump.”The bill offered by Gordon and Alexander should be a no-brainer. Foreign nuclear waste should be prohibited from being brought into this country…………………………..The fact is no one is in position to guarantee the safety of domestic nuclear energy, and no amount of trouble from coal-fired power plants completely erases nuclear concerns. The fight against foreign waste is hard to square with a gung-ho cry for more domestic power generated from nuclear technology.

Nuclear waste bound for U.S. | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean

February 2, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, wastes