Font Resize- Radioactive waste
- Nov 19:
- House advances bill to ban foreign nuke waste
- Nov 7:
- Scientists: Nuke panel owes Utahns an apology
- Nov 3:
- Bill to ban Italian nuke waste advances
- Oct 9:
- Utah won't take a stand on national foreign nuke waste ban
- Bulky waste prompts EnergySolutions to seek license updates
- Oct 7:
- House plans hearing on foreign nuclear-waste bill
- Oct 6:
- Depleted uranium shipments delayed
- Sep 24:
- Utahns question accelerated uranium enrichment
- Sep 23:
- Utahns hear plans to regulate uranium disposal
- Sep 22:
- EnergySolutions: State rejects depleted uranium shipment moratorium
- Sep 16:
- Matheson asks Energy Department to halt depleted uranium shipments
- Sep 4:
- Energy Solutions: We're in talks with state on nuke waste issue
- Sep 3:
- Waste ruling drawing rivals
Washington » The House Energy and Commerce Committee postponed its planned meeting Thursday to vote on legislation that would ban the importation of foreign low-level radioactive waste, including a potential shipment of 1,600 tons to Utah.
Committee officials did not give a reason for delaying the meeting.
An Energy and Commerce subcommittee voted to advance the bill, sponsored by Reps. Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., Jim Matheson, D-Utah and Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, earlier this week.
No new meeting time was set.
The measure would essentially bar any company from bringing in low-level radioactive waste into the United States for processing or storage.
Salt Lake City-based EnergySolutions is seeking a license to import 20,000 tons of Italian low-level waste for processing in Tennessee; about 1,600 tons of post-processed waste would be disposed of in the company's Tooele County site.
