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Utah’s heavy burden from uranium

Depleted uranium gets more and more hazardous for at least 1 million years. In contrast, most of the Class A waste at the Utah site is supposed to pose virtually no radiation risk after 100 years………..

Public largely critical of depleted uranium disposal –  State has already borne a heavy burden from the nuclear industry, one Utahn says. By Judy FahysThe Salt Lake Tribune: 01/26/2010 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.”What matters is we don’t want it, just like the other states don’t want it.”………………
Depleted uranium gets more and more hazardous for at least 1 million years. In contrast, most of the Class A waste at the Utah site is supposed to pose virtually no radiation risk after 100 years………..

Salt Lake City resident Bob Brister, after recalling the nuclear burden Utah has already borne, said he hated to see the West Desert treated as “our nation’s nuclear waste dump.” He called state radiation officials “the last line of defense” against that fate.

“I don’t think the people of Utah,” he said, “should be made to suffer any more at the hands of this industry.”

Public largely critical of depleted uranium disposal – Salt Lake Tribune

January 27, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | USA, wastes | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium