Foreign Nuclear Waste Arrives in Utah….er, uh, I mean radioactive “ore”.
I reported in early October on the announcement that
Utah will be receiving 500 tons of toxins from Japan
It’s happening. Truckloads of radioactive ore from Japan began arriving this week at International Uranium Corp.’s mill in San Juan County, reports the
Salt Lake Tribune.
The state of Utah has no ban on radioactive material from foreign sources. It also does not have an oversight on the import of such material.
Semantics sometimes means the difference between what is and what isn’t permitted.
Meanwhile, in other “waste” news, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is expected to to determine whether Envirocare is allowed to continue disposing of depleted uranium waste — or even dig up the depleted uranium already there, reports the Deseret News. Envirocare has accepted DU previously and it could become the burial site for many thousands of tons of the material to be generated by a uranium enrichment facility that Louisiana Energy Services is proposing to build in New Mexico.
The NRC will have to determine whether or not the waste is classified as “A” or “C” waste. “A” is more dangerous than “C”.
Of course the NRC claims that whatever decision it makes will be “prudent” and “safe”.
The oxymoron is that no “waste” or the transportation of such is “safe”.
Deanna Dee-Dee Taylor 