Utah Congressman Asks Chu to Postpone Shipment of Nuclear Waste to Utah Facility

摘要

Rep. Jim Matheson (D-Utah) wrote to Secretary of Energy Steven Chu on Sept. 16 asking him to suspend shipments of depleted uranium, scheduled, to begin in October, to a nuclear waste disposal site in Utah.rn"I ask you to postpone plans to dispose of the Savannah River Site's depleted uranium until the Nuclear Regulatory Commission finishes its rulemaking process" to determine the appropriateness of sites for depleted uranium-disposal, Matheson wrote.rnIn July, the Savannah River Operations Office announced that "over the next 14 months," it would be shipping by rail approximately 14,800 drums of depleted uranium oxide "for final disposal" to a low-level radioactive waste disposal facility operated by Energy Solutions in Clive, Utah.