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Company abandons plan to import nuclear waste

Utah firm withdraws nuke waste import application The Daily Caller – 07/26/2010 SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions Inc. has withdrawn its application to import up to 20,000 tons of low-level radioactive waste from Italy.The company sent the Nuclear Regulatory Commission a letter  requesting its application be withdrawn on Friday.Instead, the company says it will try to help build and manage overseas disposal sites.The application to import the waste and dispose it in Utah was opposed by two Utah governors. The U.S. House also passed a bill banning the importation of low-level radioactive waste. The bill is stalled in the Senate….

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July 29, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | business and costs, USA | antinuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive