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"This is the place" for Nuclear Waste
DOWNWINDERS SPECIAL REPORT
Notice: In the coming weeks this page will be home to document the onslaught of efforts by major nuclear polluters who seek to make Utah and Nevada the nation's nuclear waste dump.BREAKING NEWS!
Nevada
joins fight against Utah nuke waste site
by
Mary Manning, Las Vegas SUN, May 30, 2000
Tooele
County deals with the devil
Opinion
by Carol Overland, Deseret News,
May 31, 2000
Nuclear Waste Battle a Lost Cause?
Utah may not be able to stop the Goshute nuke dump - by Jim Woolf, SL Tribune, May 26, 2000Don't roll over for nuke waste!
Deseret News Editorial, May 29, 2000
A NEW NUKE DUMP FOR UTAH?
"In a letter dated March 22, 2000, Plateau Resources Limited (PRL) requested that the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) amend Source Material License SUA-1371 for the Shootaring Canyon Uranium Mill in Garfield County, Utah to authorize the receipt and disposal of Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended
(AEA), 11e.(2) byproduct material." See the NRC Federal Register Notice.
Skull Valley, Utah
Don't roll over for nuke waste! - Deseret News Editorial, May 29, 2000
Nuclear Waste Battle a Lost Cause? - by Jim Woolf, SL Tribune, May 26, 2000
Tooele Signs Deal for N-Waste, by Judy Fahys, SL Tribune, May 25, 2000
Tooele inks deal on N-storage, By Jerry D. Spangler and Donna M. Kemp, Deseret News, May 24, 2000
Notice of Hearing In the Matter of Private Fuel Storage, L.L.C. , NRC, April 25, 2000
WARNING - KEEP OUT! This Nuclear Waste Dump Is Hazardous To Your Health
Canyon Country Zephyr article by Ken Sleight - May, 2000Letter to Army Corps of Engineers by Greg Wingard, - May 21, 2000
Corps of Engineers cleanup of radioactive site in New York generates a lot of heat
By Matthew Grunwald, Seattle Times, May 15, 2000
Despite the problems in New York, IUC applys to take the Linde Waste - Federal Register, May 5, 2000
Utah, Army Corps strike a deal to restrict N-waste shipments, Jerry Spangler, Deseret News, April 25, 2000
International Uranium Corporation, White Mesa, Utah
Nuclear Cleanup's Fallout
Washington Post, April 10. 2000
OPEN THE FLOODGATES! Envirocare: "Low-level" Waste Fast Track Scheme:
- TOOELE COUNTY MAY BECOME NATION'S PAY TOILET FOR "LOW-LEVEL" NUCLEAR WASTE!
- UTAH LEGISLATURE PASSES "FAST TRACK" LEGISLATION - March 2000
- MARCH 1, 2000: BREAKING NEWS OF UTAH LEGISLATURE'S "SHAMEFUL" CAPITULATION TO ENVIROCARE. BOTH HOUSES PASS "FAST TRACK" LEGISLATION
"You need to look at it very closely," he said. "You're going from stuff you can hold in your hand with no exposure to something that is very dangerous."
- Virgil Autry, director of South Carolina's Division of Radioactive Waste Management
Read Envirocare's Siting Evaluation Report (SiER)
DOWNWINDERS’ COMMENTS ON THE SiER REPORT NEW! 04/16/2000
Related Articles:
Fact Sheets on Low Level Nuclear Waste:
- S.C. to limit dumping of low-level nuclear waste - The State, May 25, 2000
- N-Waste Disposal Plan Moves a Step Forward - Salt Lake Tribune, May 4, 2000
- Envirocare request gets a boost
- Opinion: Hazardous Legislating
- Waste issues spur a red-hot debate
- Senate Budget Bill Expedites Envirocare Application
- Envirocare lobbies state for permit
- Envirocare lobbying for permit to 'heat up'
- Shopping Around for N-Waste: S.C. is getting its fill, Utah company wants the business
- Radioactive Trash Likely Bound For Utah
- Hotter Waste For Utah?
- Radiation Control Board Denies Fast-Track Licensing (Jan. Board Minutes)
- Downwinders review of the Envirocare Low Level Waste application NEW! 3/24/00
- Classification of Low Level Waste
- Low Level Waste Facts
- GAO Report: STATES ARE NOT DEVELOPING DISPOSAL FACILITIES
- An excellent backgrounder on Tooele County environmental history by Chip Ward
(from his new book - Canaries on the Rim)- Low Level Loopholes, Low Level Lies
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