Bill would block imports of low-level nuclear waste

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http://www.thestate.com/politics/story/345752.html

Posted on Fri, Mar. 14, 2008

Bill would block imports of low-level nuclear waste

A congressman has introduced legislation preventing the import of low-level nuclear waste to the U.S., a practice that has prompted questions recently in South Carolina, Tennessee and Utah.

Rep. Bart Gordon, D-Tennessee, says foreign nations should take care of their own nuclear waste. His bill would ban the Nuclear Regulatory Commission from approving imports to this country unless the waste originated in the United States.

The issue of low-level nuclear waste imports has raised questions in South Carolina since a plan surfaced late last year to bring Italian nuclear refuse through Charleston. Energy Solutions, which runs Barnwell County’s low-level nuclear waste dump, proposes to send the material to Tennessee for processing or Utah for disposal.

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1. It would be great if nuclear was the answer to our energy problems

but as it stands today it is not, as I feel the bad out weighs the good. The efforts that are wasted on trying to convince us that nuclear energy production is safe could be better directed toward discovery of alternate forms of energy. The thought that there in no new discoveries to be made is absurd at best and a downright lie at the least.