Radioactive waste regulators deal blow to Italian waste plan

POSTED: 10:10 MDT Monday, May 12, 2008

by Associated Press

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Regulators from eight Western states unanimously voted to require their approval before thousands of tons of Italian radioactive waste -- or any other foreign waste -- can be shipped to a site in Utah. The vote Thursday by members of the Northwest Interstate Compact on Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management is a blow to efforts by EnergySolutions Inc. to bring the Italian waste into the country.

It will affect a pending Nuclear Regulatory Commission decision on an import application by EnergySolutions.

Without explicit approval from compact members, the NRC is likely to balk at letting the company ship the waste to Utah.

The federal agency could still allow the Italian waste into the United States, to be processed at EnergySolutions' facility in Tennessee and shipped back to Italy.

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